Procrasti-whatnow?

[aderam]

Considering that I just finished and handed in a paper this morning (and one that's not due until hand-wavey time in the future - don't you just love profs that do that?) these might not work as well as all that - but here are some wicked awesome things to help you procrastinate at this very busy time in the academic year.

Procrastinating from my next paper totally counts, right?

1. The first video from Peter Jackson about the start of filming on the Hobbit! (Yes you read that right!)

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150223186041807&oid=141884481557&comments

It's from his Facebook page and it is ten minutes of pure joy. I am so excited for this movie now. It is going to be absolutely amazing. And once the DVDs come out the special features are going to be STUNNING! Maybe I'll re-read the Hobbit this summer... I mentioned this video to the guys at dinner and got some excellent reactions. This morning at breakfast A came up to me and got me to stand up so that he could hug me in thanks and jump up and down about how awesome it's going to be. I love hanging out with nerds. ;)

2. Photos of Ridiculousness!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/02/nyiragongo_crater_journey_to_t.html



This is a whole series of photos of a lava lake in Africa and a team of scientists who are studying it. They are truly amazing. Check out the ones that show insane scientists really close to the lava!

3. Goodnight Dune

http://goodnightdune.com/

A retelling of the children's classic Goodnight Moon using the settings and characters from Dune by Frank Herbert. Favourite part: rhyming sardaukar with gom jabbar.

4. My residence has a list serv so we can all email each other for planning things etc. It's really useful for getting messages out fairly quickly, but it's also a place where we send around cool things or things that make us think etc (I got the link to the Lava Lake from it). The latest article that going around is called "Why Feminism is the Anti-Viagra". I refuse to read it on principle - partially because discussion around it indicates that it's super offensive and basically says that women want men strong men to dominate them. Anyway, a few of the guys were responding to it (none of our lovely ladies), and then one of them asked why none of our resident women had responded. I thought about it for a bit and then sent this:

Why the sausage fest you ask?

I strongly suspect that I'm not the only one who refuses to read articles like this on principle. Especially now that I've read a few of your responses I feel even less need to read the article in question. It will only make me angry. And I'd prefer to be happy.

So no, I'm not going to join in this discussion. I've not read the article and I don't want to. I don't need other people to tell me about my own sexuality.

Love (?),
Me

I've since gotten a few replies from the other ladies in complete agreement, so I'm feeling pretty good about that.

5. I've also been knitting and watching a lot of Deep Space Nine. :)

6. The playoffs have started and my beloved Canucks won their first game - yes I did procrastinate by watching it. :)

Now - back to the procrastination!

Also new Fringe and Sanctuary tonight!!! Super excite!

Comments

[hobbitbabe]

You had a great response about not reading the article.

I'm pretty sure that's the one by the guys who did the classic SurveyFail last summer. So if one needed even more reasons not to read it, that would be a big one. But of course, one doesn't.

I will look at your links of procrastination later.

[aderam]

You're procrastinating from my procrastination links!? How very meta. ;)