shirenomad: (angry)
shirenomad ([personal profile] shirenomad) wrote2002-03-10 02:10 pm

Too mellow for my own good...

I'm unemployed, and I keep borrowing from my parents to pay rent. I'm behind on my schoolwork, with finals fast approaching. I haven't even started reading the documentation for this software I'm supposed to be researching. My website hasn't been updated in a month, and I've got several other personal projects half-finished.

And yet, I just can't bring myself to care.

Oh, I'll get worried when Allen asks for my share of some payment or another and I have to ask him to cover me for a week. Or on the night before an assignment is due. For a few hours, I'll even try to do something about it. But the instant I take a break, the "eh, whatever" syndrome sets back in and I lose all motivation. Even now, I get the feeling I could blow off the homework due tomorrow and just spend the day websurfing, watching TV, or leveling up in FFT. Again.

I need a set schedule, and I need it enforced, or else I inevitably end up like this. When I had that summer internship, I did my work, because I was at the office and it was time to work. But the other things I had meant to accomplish over those three months fell by the wayside in favor of beating various games, reading, and generally goofing off, because there wasn't a specific time to do them. And I didn't care. And to a degree, I still don't. Yet I care that I don't care.

Does this attitude seem weird to anyone else? 'Cause I don't understand it at all, and I'm the one with it.

[identity profile] jumi.livejournal.com 2002-03-10 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins.

This is the reason.

Not weird to me.

[identity profile] dizzybum.livejournal.com 2002-03-10 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm like that all the time. Heck, I'm even too lazy to get up and play some video games.

I know what that's like.

[identity profile] kouban.livejournal.com 2002-03-11 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hell, during the last part of his being my roommate, all Steve would ever do was sit on his ass and play Armageddon.