Being a Slug and Other Career Choices I Have Made

I'm being a slug today. My daily goals are:


  1. Do at least an hour of outlining for Shadows and another project each.
  2. Do at least two school assignments.
  3. Go for a walk.
And here's what I've actually done:

  1. Eat leftover Chinese takeout for breakfast.
  2. Eat an entire pack of bacon two hours later when I get the munchies.
  3. Watch two episodes of the Mindy Project and then stop because it makes me sad I don't live in New York with a slew of awkward and slightly condescending love interests.
  4. Watch a bunch of Mirror's Edge Catalyst promos I've already seen.
  5. Listen to the song Same Old Love by Selena Gomez like ten times.
It's 12:39pm, so I should be working already. I should have been working since 11. But I haven't been. I've been watching Mindy Khaling be the perfect human being and listening to the same three songs on repeat for hours. And I like Cage the Elephant, so that's okay, but I also like to be productive, so it's not.

I think the main problem is that I'm very good at being lazy. I could rock a job as a prince - not next in line for the throne, but one of the cool younger princes who gets all the riches with none of the responsibility - or a famous for being famous socialite. Except I'm not hot enough to get famous for no reason and I'm not conceited or exciting or rich enough for my own reality show. So.

I really don't want to go for a walk, which I think is because I don't want to go outside. I'll force myself to do it anyway, eventually, because I want to cross it off of my daily goals list, but I feel bad because my hair is really short and I just ate, so I feel like I'm gross and I don't want people to look at me, which going out - even here in the middle of nowhere - would entail. Whatever. It's really cloudy, so I can bundle up in a sweater and go out then, but it's going to suck. It would suck anyway because it's exercise, and I have no ipod, but it's going to suck extra because I feel so gross today. I haven't done my 5Things though, so maybe if I write those before I go out I'll feel better.

Anyway, that's all I'm doing today - stressing over not working enough, eating everything I can find, and listening to music while I work up the momentum to get some homework done. Here, have some:

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