In case I haven’t complained to y’all, my university is closed for vacation and it will open sometime in the first week of July (when I have to sit for that damning COMPREHENSION EXAMINATION). So I am sitting at home. And preparing for that examination. (I won’t bore you with the particulars).
But I have a strange problem. At any given time, I always like to work on something other than the one which actually demands my attention. So, during my 12th standard board exams, I had this obsession to read novels: anything was okay as long as I was not sitting with my textbooks. Or when I have to take my PG exams, I watched a new DVD every night. Just me and my sis, and so secretly. I am surprised at my capability to make time when there is really none, and to find myself short of time, when there is actually so much. I haven’t shed this quirky habit. So, when I am supposed to be making myself thorough in ELT, and reading books related only to that subject, I find everything else very interesting. This time it is not novels/fiction/poetry that hold my interest, but unrelated, and equally dry, non-fiction. I just finished reading Gender in Translation by Sherry Simon, and I am currently reading Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. (I feel ashamed that I hadn’t come across this book earlier. It was also incidentally the Black intellectual’s doctoral thesis and it was rejected!). I am waiting to lay my hands on his other books too. Especially after being informed by Wikipedia that Fanon’s works have influenced the Tamil (eelam) liberation movement. Great impact, given that he had such a brutally short life.
I have several other interesting titles lined up, and those have nothing to do with my exams.
Why do I do this? Is it because I am weary of being the good girl, or I am bored, or I am simply over-confident, or is it because doing something else gives me calmer nerves?
Apart from this self-analysis, I am actually happy that I am reading. But for the vacation, I really doubt if I could have caught up with so much.
>>Why do I do this? Is it because I am weary of being the good girl, or I am bored, or I am simply over-confident, or is it because doing something else gives me calmer nerves?
Simple. You are procrastinating
WHY DO I DO THIS / WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS
1. You want to tell the world, hey i’m really brilliant, i do everything except study during the exams and yet i come out with flying colours.
2. Your are doing this… to make us feel inferior… how ?, by quoting all the great titles… who many mortals like us dont know that they really exist.
3. you are doing this beacuse thats the way it is usually done, thats how blogs are written and more importantly replied too.
………….. HEY FRIEND JUST JOKING……
Hi Ganesh, you have a BIG point there.
No Vishal, really no. I think when I am forced to do something, such as acquire a higher degree, I subconsciously keep rebelling against it. And one of the ways, is to do all this. No complexes involved here.