Everyone procrastinates. Everyone. It's a scientifically proven fact. Yeah, it's on of those "fact" things. However, not everyone procrastinates often, or so often that it affects their lives. Around 20% of people procrastinate badly enough for it to actually be noticed. The scientists have all sorts of reasons for the nature of procrastination they just came out with. (I'm pretty sure they would have been done years ago, but they kept getting distracted by positrons orneurkinetics or some other silly thing.) Anyway, they believe that our brains were wired back in the Cave Man Era (a little while before the 60's, I think?) to think short-term, because who knew if they were going to live long-term. Food spoiled in 3 days or less, and while trying to figure out the whole food-shelter-not dying thing, our ancestors' minds were trained to think "now!"
Of course, now we all suffer for those fools! If only they used their schedules and Blackberrysefficiently enough... Now, our mind wants us to accomplish short-term needs, such as eating and sleeping, instead of long-term needs, such as writing for school work instead of writing in a blog. There are some main factors that goes into this. The big ones are the need for instant gratification (including how much time will pass before rewards are given and how bad you want the reward), a person's expectancy for succeeding, the value of the tasks, and the person's impulsiveness. Needless to say, I probably fail on most of those accounts.
Regardless, the wise-guys actually came up with an equation to determine a person's tendency to procrastinate. That is: How likely one is to delay = (one's confidence x the importance/fun of the task) / (how bad you need the reward X how easily you are distracted)
If you'll do the math, you'll see that you probably want to do something else instead of figure out numbers to plug into a formula that won't actually give you real answers.
Also, I found this psychology magazine at the drug store, hence the three long paragraphs about something that I, personally, never researched.
Peanut butter? No idea. I thought I had something about peanut butter, but don't remember what I was going to say. So, as far as peanut butter goes, it's some good stuff, and it's hard to have too much of it. Pretty sure peanut butter makes everything better.
My grandfather hasn't been doing too well lately. A usual spattering of late-age symptoms, and recently was staying in a memory health place, where the patients have a tendency to forget a lot or want to wander off easily. Each door leading to the outside has a pass code, which you must punch before you can either enter or exit the building. A tad disconcerting, but it also has a neat inner courtyard, and at least it doesn't have that overall permeating hospital-like odor.
He wasn't expected to last much longer, as his body began to shut down, and certain functions (such as digesting) stopped, so eating and most drinking stopped along with it. Luckily, most of the closer family had already gotten into town, before Granddad passed this morning (Sat, 9/19). Plans are currently in the works for the memorial service, as he will be cremated and the ashes eventually spread in the ocean. Granddad was in the Navy in WWII, and the Navy guys will be there, at least with a trumpeter, if not with the rest of the pomp and circumstance. Ceremony will be held next weekend sometime, to give the extended family time to arrive. You would think that was already the case since there was 20-something people there today, but more are on the way.
So, now I'll sum it all up for you: Procrastination is good (at times), but don't delay because some kind of end may come sooner than you think. And before whatever that is arrives, be sure you have enough peanut butter to feel satisfied. Smooth or chunky, it's all good.
