Another Sunday has arrived and with it, another week is making it's exit. I've found myself here before, on this day of rest, trying to find any reason to not complete the work that has traveled with me throughout the week. It will get done, I will do my best on it, and I understand it's importance, but honesty is the best policy. And if I'm to be honest, I really don't care about the work that I have to do right now. Maybe these are some reasons that explain my willingness, or lack there of, to do my work.
1) My Place is Looking Kind of Dirty
Ask any of my friends, my girlfriend or my family and they will all tell you that I am not neat freak. But I couldn't help but notice the bits of paper in my carpet, the crumbs that tumbled on the floor from breakfast and the weird looking stain thing in the deepest crevice of the corner in my wall. I might need to take my loved ones advice and make this place presentable.
2) Bon Iver's Album Just Came Out
It's like someone threw together the observational reflection of 60's beat poets, the tumbling layers of surrealist painters and production that only the likes of Kanye West can match. All of these things, among broken guitars and falsetto melodies, make up this seemingly heartbroken Wisconsinite's work. My record player, his new album 22, A Million and a cup of coffee beckon.
3) My Fridge is Looking Kind of Empty
I eat... a lot and that habit has gotten the best of my fridge as it looks emptier than my bank account. Nevertheless, Greek Yogurt and some turkey sandwiches sound really good right now.
4) I Don't Care
Like I said above, I really don't care about homework at the moment. I understand that as an education major I will encounter students just like myself. You know why? We are all people who, a lot of times, would much rather be doing something else. When work is presented to us, our passions or interests can halt any progress on homework that doesn't carry as much love as I would like it to. Working hard is really important and so is homework for that matter. But we all know that it is struggle to do things that don't evoke any excitement. I'm not degrading homework or the teachers that assigned them, I'm just being honest.
5) I Guess That I Have a Habit of Dreaming
Like anyone else, I have a habit of wanting to be where I've never been. When I sit down to read X amount of pages or place myself in the library to annotate an article, my mind drifts somewhere else: stages in France the sand in Australia or the limits of Austin. It doesn't really matter where I want to go, the fact is that I want to be somewhere else. As a college student, a large portion of my life has been set in school desks, lecture halls and libraries to do work similar to what I've done before. While my education can serve as my ticket to those places, it can be struggle fighting my imagination as it sees those places in future, nearer than reality.
