dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

Procrastination, perfectionism and humble me


I’m a perfectionist, that’s one thing that’s sure. I love to create things, and I go to great lengths to do it right. That’s one reason many of my projects aren’t finished yet. I just haven’t declared them good enough to call them that way. But on the other hand I love to procrastinate. I’m addicted to just surfing the web, reading weblogs, news sites, my e-mail, mailing lists and what more, without actually doing anything useful, except posting some comments on a weblog or answering a stray e-mail.

It’s one of the things I hate about myself. I can spend a week behind my computer, soaking up information, without actually getting any results, except for a slightly better tweaked GNU/Linux install and a bunch of trivia in my head and link dump. Those are moments that I slap myself against my head and wish I had done something for my website [aquariusoft.org isn’t by far the way I would like it to be, for example], or read some chapters for University. Hell, even structuring my organized chaos a.k.a. my room a bit better would be something.

Soooo, what did I do this week for example? Well, I did a testing job at my work, so that’s actually something. I’m glad I work two days a week; it weights up against some of the other days. I installed my new Audigy 2 ZS soundcard and Creative 5500 speakerset, so that’s another something [especially considering the placement of this shitload of speakers and having cables that are just centimeters short]. My new wireless accesspoint/router is half installed too [just need to configure WAP if I can find the darn setting], so on computer territory that’s quite some things.

Besides that I’m busy setting up things for a project I do with a friend I know from study. A paid project, so that’s a nice change :) I’m working with him on Parallel Programming assignments too, but those are going a bit slow. There’s definitely room for improvement there, like taking time for studying material for exams. Speaking about which, maybe I’d better start…

But now—time for some quality time with my gf :)