Why am I wasting all my time?
Seriously, this is a real problem!
So, last night, I meant to go to bed around midnight. But I sat up for a while as I had some work to do. I then managed to find myself on Cracked.com, a very amusing website with interesting or amusing articles on a huge variety of subjects. Anyway, I looked at my clock, only to realise it was nearly 2am and I’d not done my work.
This is a real issue: I still have to get the work done, but it’s difficult to not get distracted when you work on a computer and have the entire information highway - that’s an old term, isn’t it? You don’t see it that often anymore… anyway, back to the topic at hand: See! Time wasting! - at my fingertips and I’m just not getting done what I have to get done!
So, I sat down and actually did my work last night, and just suffered today with lack of sleep because I felt that I pretty much deserved it for being caught up on the interwebs for two hours. If I’m not careful right now, I’ll do it again, too.
Like right then, I flicked over to an IGN article I brought up about death in video games. I had to close that tab lest I get caught up in reading the damned thing and not finish this blog entry!
Wasting time on the net can be all well and good when you’ve actually got time to waste. I used to work a tech support job in which I didn’t have a high frequency of people to help, and I was encouraged to still look busy at my computer: My boss directly encouraged me to use the net to look busy, so long as whatever I was looking at was ‘work friendly’ which suited me just fine.
So yeah, I’m not real thrilled with my currently lack of focus… I’ll have to think about how I’m going to stop myself from engaging in this wasteful behaviour…
