Tuesdays with Ian - Procrastination

Is stress caused by procrastination or is procrastination a result of stress?

I realize this question may be as difficult to answer as determining the priority of chickens and eggs in the propagation of the species.  However, I submit that the two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive.  This assertion is, of course, based on a massive sample size: myself and the study was conducted during the extended time period of: yesterday.  So after a thorough examination of my study avoidance patterns, namely: watching Sherlock, the first episode of Psych season 1, and 10 minutes of some unrated Chinese film before it started getting really explicit in its portrayal of life in modern Beijing, I discovered that Sherlock really is a great show, Psych, less so, and that I should really be more careful watching random Chinese films.  None of these discoveries, however, led me any closer to the completion of my molecular biology homework and unless my professor Dr. Evans has some pop culture trivia additions to the next biology exam, it's unlikely that I found myself any more prepared to take the upcoming test.

I suppose what I am trying to say is, I felt stressed about my apparent inability to understand what is going on in my biology class and therefore intentionally delayed engaging in any activity that might resolve the problem.  Unfortunately, my procrastination did not only fail to alleviate my stress but actually added to it as I wasted my time not attending to what I really needed to be doing.

So the advice for this week is: Don't procrastinate.

I'm sure many of you might be saying "hey, that's really obvious, thanks for nothing."  But if you are then you were probably reading this blog when you should have been doing your molecular biology homework.  So.  Joke's on you.  I would know.  I just spent my study time writing it.

Don't watch this.  But, really. Don't.