Procrastination Champion hides under desk, film at 11

[bodlon]

It's no exaggeration that I've been thinking of updating over here for the better part of a fortnight. I realized this yesterday afternoon, and in the usual way started breaking the thing down, trying to figure out what exactly the problem was.

Procrastination for me doesn't really manifest as a sort of benign laziness. Certainly at the beginning there might be an element of "Oh, I'll do that later," or a deliberate choice to attend to one thing over another because I have only so much time on a given day.

After that, the fun starts.

No matter how simple the thing in question is, deferring it always does something to my relationship with it. It becomes guilt-inducing or fearful or -- and often this is the very worst of them -- a Thing Which Must Be Done Properly, Requiring Much Attention And Effort.

With a line-up like that, it's easy to see how a thing might be deferred again ("I don't have time to do it properly today, but tomorrow..."), all the while getting bigger, and more late, and more urgent, and increasingly great and terrible.

Intellectually, I know it's ridiculous. And yet, here I am, blogging on the 16th instead of on the 4th or the 7th or whenever.

So that was fun. And now that I've broken through the block of Having To Do This Properly -- See? Ridiculous. -- I can actually start putting together some Real Posts about Actual Things again.

Amazing how that works.

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- Important: If you haven't already heard of the Stop Internet Piracy Act, H.R. 3261 (as it's known in the House, it's the Protect IP Act, Senate Bill S.968 in the Senate), you need to go, right now, and read up on it. SOPA could very well pass, and it's a massive blow to protected speech. The intent -- being to curtail piracy -- is not unreasonable in the abstract, but would essentially privilege the rights of government and media corporations over the individual's right to free speech and expression. And yes, I say this as a content producer. My ability to make a larger profit is not as important as everyone's right to engage in free and open discourse.

- Awesome: Subversion is coming soon! Very, very soon! To get you ready, here's one of the other authors in the antho talking about her own subversive activites.

- Angry-making: a transgender woman in Tennessee is being charged with indecent exposure after removing her top in protest when the state refused to update her driver's license from male to female. They're charging her as male for taking her shirt off. The Social Security Administration, incidentally, has already recognized her as female.

- Useful: XKCD on where citations come from.

- Bizarre (and also scary when you consider the repurcussions): helium is becoming increasingly scarce. The culprit: privatization.

- I also sort of want to link to this image macro of Miss Piggy that involves a joke I would not consider work safe, but have no idea how to warn for it except that it involves a pun on a common ailment while alluding to a common sex act. Consider yourself warned-ish?

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