It won't be long til I get the hang of blogging. I intend to start 2013 on the right foot: as I've always been a journal-keeping type of girl it seems like it might be worth taking writing and recording to the next level this year.
Unfortunately I spend a lot of time procrastinating in life so one of the main reasons for starting this project is to disengage me from newlook.co.uk, fastpasstv and social networking. Well, I suppose I will never fully disengage from social networking.
I want to start a blog now so that by the time it gets to the end of the summer I'll understand enough about how it works that I'll be able to (successfully) record my next great adventure abroad, which will commence in September 2013. I tried and failed to keep a blog a couple of years ago when I went to live in France.
Here are five reasons for procrastination.

1) Work is mentally exhausting.

2) The Internet, which is a vast unending source of information which is always accessible and is required to actually do work these days. Nobody starts their essays with open books, a roll of parchment a quill and ink pot anymore, like they do in Harry Potter (which I understand is fictional). My main problem with the Internet is that you can get lost in a sea of your own (limitless) search engine thoughts.

3) Need for sustenance and caffeine.

4) Social life: sometimes, I think people go to the library just to see other human beings, even if they don't 'officially' talk to them.

5) Doing things you feel you 'never have time for' because you've so much work, such as reading a novel, tidying up, taking a shower, starting a novel. Because once you've finished an essay and finally got down to writing that novel, there's more work around the corner!

Well I've had a very productive evening so far. I am (usually) devoted to studying and work hard at translations, transcriptions and whatever other thing is required to pass language and linguistic classes BUT ALAS...sometimes I find myself procrastinating. Doing meaningless things such as visiting the New Look website for the tenth time in a week. I've always enjoying writing for pleasure, so perhaps this will be a money-saving and more enriching way to waste my time.

WHO. KNOWS.