Apparently my new procrastination is sleep
Ever since I got to Regent’s, I’ve been very tired. Last night I stayed up until 11, but I wanted to go to bed at 9. Then this morning, I had planned on getting up at 7, but I didn’t get out of bed until a little before 8. Then after lunch and a little bit of work for my IR collection, I decided to take a nap. I forced myself to get up and do some work on econ, but I don’t know any of the answers to that exam. On the theoretical part, I’m okay, but on the applied things, I don’t feel like we addressed any of that in the tutorial or readings. It’s all about UK economics, which I know nothing about. Why does the UK have low unemployment, or low inflation, or low investment? I don’t know, and worse, I don’t care. When I go home, I don’t think the UK’s economic state is going to matter to me much, so it’s really hard to try to understand now. So politics, I feel fine about and economics, I’m completely lost in. Reverse of last time.
And now I’m to the point where I’m thinking, what good is it going to do for me to study? I can’t get it all in because I’ve procrastinated, or slept, so why not just do nothing instead. Good strategy, huh? I know it doesn’t make sense, but that seems to be how my brain works now. But I made a timeline (I know there’s another word for that) for tomorrow, what I’m doing each hour and hopefully by the end of the day, I’ll have at least 6 timed essays written. I’ve done outlines and introductions today, so it’s just putting the pen to paper. And maybe it’s still expecting too much out of myself, but I’m doing IR first and that collection is Friday, so if I don’t have time to finish all the macro, I’ve got Friday to finish that up because that collection isn’t until Saturday.
Of course, we have been doing a lot of rowing stuff as well, so maybe that’s why I’m so tired. But I really can’t afford to give up extra time for rowing and then have to sleep more for it. It’s supposed to get me energized, isn’t it? We went and played in the park today for exercise. We did a few things: threw a ball around for a while for a game called fireball and then realized we were getting no exercise, played Chinese freeze tag, but they called it something else, kicked the soccer/football around, then played a game of soccer/football. Ray and I were the only ones who had played before, so it wasn’t too competitive, and I actually looked like I knew what I was doing. I had forgotten how much I used to fall in soccer, though. I have quite a few bruises and some grass stains on skin and clothing. And no Shout to get it out, so these sweatpants are officially my soccer-playing sweatpants if we ever play it again. Ok, now time to get my shoes on and head down to the river for our actual outing today.