Did you know that the Deadly Serious Party was an Australian political party that once proposed to train killer penguins to protect us from an Argentine invasion? Or that Valencia’s stadium Mestalla was once used as a concentration camp? Or that a whoopie pie is an American chocolate cake? No? It’s amazing what Wikipedia knows that we don’t. I find that Wikipedia is quite often the cause of a condition that afflicts me and many others. I call it Chronic Procrastination. See, I’ve always envied people who can set their mind to do doing something and then go out and do it. Studying for exams, finding a job, writing an essay. The list goes on. But I can’t do that. I tell myself that I am going to write my essay yet I find myself watching a DVD, joining the real-time chat on a certain F1 site or, as I mentioned before, trawling through Wikipedia adding to already overflowing stockpile of useless crap that takes up most of my brain. I tell myself I am going to study for my exams that are in less than a week yet I find myself blogging about procrastinating. See what I mean?
And I know I’m not the only one. Why do you think Twitter was invented? So that people can talk about whatever meaningless activity they are doing rather than going out and doing something important. To waste time. Facebook is the same. They exist only to serve our desire to put off that which is most important.
But yes, instead of telling you about cakes and camps and killer penguins, I should be telling you something about Virgil’s Roman epic, the Aeneid. I have to tell an examiner about it on Tuesday. But because my own trail of discovery, albeit a virtual one on Wikipedia didn’t take me there, I can’t.
Anyway, that’s enough procrastinating, I’m off to watch to a film…
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