Procrastination drops in for a visit

Last night I read about how great mathematicians and scientists almost always make their big discoveries in their twenties. It made me angry. What did I do in my twenties? I played video games. The peak of human will and focus was, in my case, squandered on developing the most time-efficient strategy to create a productive farm in Stardew Valley (not that I succeeded at that either). Looking at my records of language study, I can see that I did have enough focus to do something great, but didn’t. I hope that I can channel this anger into productivity and use it to break the hold of video games on me. Also, I’ve never had a desire to be a mathematician, but after reading about the development of calculus I really want to study it again.

On Sunday I procrastinated on my school assignment. I made some good progress on my program, mostly finishing the new interface. I had planned to go climbing, but with my school assignment looming and my body feeling a bit sore after three days of exercise in a row, I decided that I could take a break. I finished the assignment just before talking with my parents. The quality was not great, but I met the basic requirements and decided at such a late hour I did not have the willpower or time to improve it.

Yesterday I had no classes at school, so I read all of the main textbook reading and took the quiz at school. I tried to write in Japanese, but a subject eluded me. I should have looked up a writing prompt and attempted to write an actual paragraph while looking for ways to use the target grammatical structures. Next time I will do so.

After work, I went shopping and then got home at 5:20. I wrote an email to a prospective Active employee, and I must have had a bit more extra time but I’m not sure where it went. I had a great dance workout and talked to my brother afterward about jobs and an apartment and a car for when I get home. I did a very small amount of programming, designing the settings window. After entering my new vocab words in Anki and fiddling with the settings for a bit, I read some of the Christian textbook, found I couldn’t concentrate on it, and switched to the Clockwork Universe.