I spent this afternoon watching movies and completely denying the fact that I have to go back to work tomorrow. While my lesson plans have been done for two weeks, I've yet to fill out the "official" lesson plan form that contains all of the information that Admin. is most interested in. It would likely take me less than ten minutes to work it out. Yet, I can think of several unpleasant scenes from a Flannery O'Connor short story that I'd sooner reinact than fill in this stupid spreadsheet. My active procrastination led me to the movie Julie and Julia.
In case you've missed this delightful film it chronicles the lives of a New Yorker, Julie and the famous Julia Child and the strange ways that their lives overlapped without ever actually meeting each other. Julie is terribly unhappy with her mediocre life and decides that to get herself out of her slump she will cook her way through the entire Julia Child cookbook and will blog about her experience.
So, not only have I spent a lot of time in the kitchen today, but now I am starting my very own blog.
THIS is the danger of procrastination and movie watching: everything you see seems to be a MUCH better idea than actually doing the thing you are avoiding. What I find most interesting of all is that I have spent way more time on this than I would have on the work that I am so busy running away from.
Anyhow, a geek to the core I settled on a literary term for the name of my blog. Non Sequitur (which I always want to misspell by the way) is a Latin term for a device frequently used in the most absurd books, plays, and films. It translates to "does not follow" and is usually a conversational response to an argument that is so far removed from the subject of the argument that it comes across as absurd...and usually funny.
Well, I am 22 and at this point my entire life seems to be Non Sequitur. I'm sure some of my fellow recent graduates can understand where I'm going with this... you prepare and prepare and prepare for "real life" for four intense years at the college/university of your choice. Then you get out there and realize...no one really knows what the hell they are doing. Not even the "real" grownups.
SO...we all just play along and try our best to have a damn good time doing it.
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