I've never been a person with super strong study skills or the ability to sit and work on nothing but school work for hours at a time. Most of this is due to sheer luck and being "good" at school. I am in my 2nd to last semester of grad school and I'm really looking forward to being finished. But at this point, what with the maturity of an almost 30-year-old and the fact that I am paying every last dollar of my tuition costs, you'd think I'd put a smidge more effort into things. You'd think I wouldn't procrastinate on every last assignment. You'd think I could sit down in front of my computer, knock out several pages of a research paper on a topic of my own choosing in my chosen career field, and have no problems.
You'd be wrong.
Instead, I find myself constantly drawn to stupidly checking this or that website, and even more distractingly - cooking. That's right - I can find all the energy in the world for baking cookies, trying out a new recipe for my lunch that week, organizing the fridge, and learning how to make sourdough bread, and of course, washing every last dish in the sink, several times a day. All the while I have piles of school work just waiting: reading, papers, group assignments. I wish I could zone everything out and focus on what's really important. Instead, I let my stomach trump my brain.
And when this is the end result, I mean, can you blame me?
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