I'm procrastinating catching up on posting after a truly slothful posting week. This afternoon's entertainment is an exquisite original somewhat lost through numerous later covers. Hope some will listen and enjoy. :)
Punctuality is overrated. Flannel sheets are rated just right.
I'm at the library getting some books to read for the three day weekend I thoughfully arranged for myself. I am on a library computer cruising the net and deeply procrastinating going to see the library lady because I'm going to have truly absurd late fees. On books I never even ended up reading! I am just going to stop checking out fiction because try as I might I just like non ficiton 3000% better. It honestly feels like a personal flaw. Can anybody find me some fiction to love?
Microwave's beeping in another thread sent me digging up Toto the other day and getting nostalgic. Great song, but this is one goofy vid. Rosanna is acting like your really embarrassing drunk friend and that is a truly epic pornstache on whathisname the singer.
It's 7:40 pm and I'm still at work, because I've been procrastinating all.day.long.
Uh....what can I say about this one? Don't ask, don't tell:
Okay that was a mistake. I've (I'm) watched that about five times. They're all making me laugh. And I'm still at work.
reading my cousins new book to try and put off doing my music theory homework
ive got a theory lesson tomorrow and an exam in a week
dreading it! im totally gonna fail
im also meant to be practising my oboe-ive got loads of concerts coming up and i cant play ANY of the pieces!
argh-i cant procrastinate any more...i give up....i'll do my homework :(
xxx
QotB
I was truly epic homework procrastinator too. Epic. Weirdly, it was usually fun when I got started. And if not fun, at least satisfying.
And those library books I mentioned up the thread there on April 22? Still have 'em. Yep. I'm truly hopeless and a very lost cause. Though I'm an honest lost cause, so by the end of my library borrowing life I'll have financed a new wing at the very least. Usually you have to be president or something to get a library built. So I guess that's good.
Speaking of books, and your cousin's new book, I have a great story (for me anyway) about my great uncle's old book. As in a book he wrote - a history book of sorts about silver mining in Northern Ontario. I never met him because he wasn't very mobile by the time I was of meeting age and then he died shortly thereafter. But I was as close as one could be to my maternal grandfather, who was his youngest brother. My great uncle wrote his book -
found here - under the most adverse conditions. He had a paralytic stroke as a very young man and lived the rest of his life in a wheelchair wih very little use of his muscles. He painstakingly researched and wrote his book over 30 years at a time when there was very little accommodation for handicapped persons in public records places and the like and he typed the manuscript himself literally with one finger a single letter at a time on a heavy old typewriter. My grandfather gave me his copy, personally signed with a shaky hand by my great uncle, in 1980 shortly before my grandpa died.
It was precious to me, and it broke my heart when it was lost in a move 12 years ago. And I just about died of gratitude and joy when I found it in a box yesterday afternoon in my basement that I'd just filed away and forgot about as it shouldn't have contained anything important. I feel like I'm 13 years old and I've just gotten it from my grandpa all over again. I'd forgotten too that it contained an old newspaper clipping from 1978 that told the story of my great uncle's accomplishment folded inside the cover, and forgotten it's most beautiful and simple dedication to my great grandparents: "In memory of Paddy and Josie, who lie in the sloping graveyard at Cobalt." Maybe I'm a wee bit biased, but I think that's simply lovely.
Anyway, a moral of the story I guess is that if my uncle can write that book we can all do whatever our version of homework is. :)
I'm procrastinating putting my groceries away. Espcially my best intentions tub of baby spinach. That one's hard. I may never see it like this again! Green, fluffy....a solid. Anyway I saw this last night and I may never be in a bad mood ever again. The bird....the guy...the "Stop cursing and speaking French". Ha ha ha!
Sigh. I'm procrastinating going to defend the raggedy honour of the Catholic Church in the Mosque thread. But I'm going to do it! Right after this video. Maybe dinner too. Possibly a movie. And perhaps some sleep or something. A years's sabattical at the very outside.
