The day was somewhat busy and awkward, with a few hours put in between the things that I needed to do here and there. That meant that I could not do some things that I wanted to do for today. As I woke up in the morning at around eleven or so, my mother wanted to go to Sam’s Club, so I went. What I thought was going to be a short trip turned out to be a trip spanning more than an hour; by the time I got home, it was after 1 PM. I wanted to mail something at the post office, but since today is Saturday, that did not work out as I would have hoped; the package will have to be shipped first thing on Monday.
Then, I had a tennis practice at five… I am not very athletic, yet my family wanted to know if I would like to learn tennis, I jumped at the chance. So far, I like it, although I am still a beginner and need a lot of work if I were to be even remotely competitive. What does that mean, then? I think it means I will need quite a bit of practice if I were to be better (which I am not getting very often, by the way) and maybe I need to join a club, as I do not have any friends that are interested in tennis.
I got out of the house at nine, after getting back from practice, eating dinner, and loafing a bit around online. Slacking is such a hard habit to conquer; it adds up, the time, and it takes many forms for it. Napping here, facebooking there, and maybe after some clicking around stumbleupon and eating dirt at Team Fortress 2, a whole day has passed; where did the hours go? That is why I left the house in search of somewhere better to concentrate and study. So, here we are, at a coffeeshop, getting my laptop out, blogging away as soon as the Internet connects. I love this.
And the reason I left the house? Oh, the test is coming up on Monday, with materials that I thought I never had to touch as soon as high school ended. I do not mean to say that it is some elementary stuff I had to learn there, because… well, the advanced placement courses are probably harder than many of the college courses. Unfortunately, I am not getting the things done today, what with my blogging and being distracted, and a couple on a date right in front of me, chatting away about things I never wanted to know about them, and further away, a bunch of Indians that are annoying and louder than the couple that is literally right in front of me. I am sure culture plays a part in this…
The whole distraction part and not getting things done in general is in line with the LASSI test that I have taken earlier this week. It is a self-test thing that my career counselor gave me for a group session. It is supposed to tell the strengths and weaknesses one has for studying… and I am in bottom tier in all but one category, and that is the “anxiety” category, in which I thought I did not have much but turns out that I was in the 60 percentile. I am sure culture plays a part in this…
I am going to study now, at least until for about an hour. I cannot stick around and do nothing after driving some twenty miles to the only coffeeshop around here that opens until midnight.
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