Vegging out
 

I'm not sure how many people on here like being lazy and just sitting around doing nothing productive, but I like vegging out every now and again. In the past this has gotten me into a lot of trouble, especially in my academic career when I would procrastinate and be so lazy I wouldn't get any of my assignments done in time. Fast forward to now and I'm getting everything done as soon as possible, and right now I'm actually on top of all my assignments and have found free time again, so what to do? Veg out and be lazy.

One of my favorite things to do when vegging out is just sitting down or laying down and listening to my music. It's like I'm in my own world and don't really care about anything else. With such a variety of music in the world today, I can go through all the different phases of my personality, from love to hate, and from anger to deep reflection, it's actually quite liberating. If I had my own pool, I'd probably veg out in the pool, something about being surrounded by water I like a lot, and listen to my music there. I wish I knew how to float on water, that would be the ultimate veg out for me, floating on the water and listening to my music with the calm waters gently sloshing around me.

If you want to share some stories on the side about how you've gotten into trouble due to your laziness and vegging out, feel free to include a quip about that. But mostly, this is about do you like being lazy? And how do you spend your time vegging out and being lazy?

Hmmmm.... sleeping is on of my favorite things to do when I am lazy... such as five minutes ago... I was sleeping when I should be writing my assignment which is due on Tuesday... Meh... its only five pages long, and the first three and a half is just summary of the article...

So yeah, I think I will play Civilization IV now...

I was lazy these past few days in particular. I had vividly imagined myself studying hard for this week's midterms, but being in the same room with the comp is always a bad idea, as well as merely putting music on.

I usually focus on the music and try tapping out the percussion line, or playing the piano part if there is one, etc. I don't really focus on my work, or when I do it's half-hearted at best, and the music takes priority. I end up focusing all my attention on "that syncopated bass line" or the "flowing melody".

Working beside the computer compunds the situation. I'll open ITunes or download random tracks from certain soundtracks on GH in hopes that I'll find new favourite music. My focus on work is only a 1/4 this time, since if I'm not just reading stuff on GFF, then I'll move on to reading random things that I had wanted to do on my free time (Eg. wiki articles, game reviews, etc.) It quickly escalates into a music sampling session, and a "what game do I want to buy?" reading period.

So my vegging out consists of listening to music, and reading internet miscellany.

It used to include Piano playing, but there are no songs as of now that I want to bother memorizing, and I've neglected practicing since I haven't found any new, complex pieces for months.

I spent this whole weekend basically twiddling my thumbs (on GFF and playing video games).

I promised myself that I would run and workout for Friday, Sat, and Sunday. Furthermore, study and prepare for the Japanese test as well as do some accounting. So much for that. I just find myself lurking and posting over the forums, as well as reading reviews for games I already own. See Okami and VP2.

I usually sleep when I'm vegging out. If I'm not doing anything of particular importance or productivity, the hours might as well go towards sleep. That way, I can stay up later at night and catch all of the exciting nighttime programming on TV.

However, this weekend was primarily spent on GFF and Mario Hoops. I really should get started on homework, but procrastination is doing everything it can to stop me.

I've noticed a lot of people say that they enjoy vegging out, but they can't do it too much, or else they get bored with it and feel the need to be productive for a while. Well, I've enjoyed being incredibly lazy, but I've actually never felt the need to stop being lazy. Once, I spent an entire week of break in my room, only playing video games and using the computer, except to leave for the bathroom/food. At the end of the week, I felt like I could've done that for ten more weeks and not cared. It's probably a terrible trait to have about me, but... I'm too lazy to fix it.

When push comes to shove I get what work I need to do done. I have a tendancy to keep myself quite busy in general with little tasks here and there, often more than I can cope with, which makes a good spell of vegging out, watching TV or a film, etc, great.

I seem to mesh up my schedule nicely. I go to work, go to school, go to the gym as often as possible (no definite timeslots are ever open), do homework, study, play games/use computer.

I spend my weekends using the computer or playing games. I don't see a point in going out to bars and what-not. And typically, each week is filled with troubles and stuff. So I spend weekends raising morale =p I don't sleep much, but I'll sit around and accomplish shit.

For example, I have an Advanced GIS test tomorrow. I'm going through and summarizing the notes he put online into a word file. I type it myself and stuff. Each note compilation is 10 pages, I just did the fourth. I have the fifth, sixth, and seventh until I'm done. Then I hafta start really memorizing it, as he wants it regurgitated to an extent. The test is tomorrow at 4pm, and I'll probably end up finishing tonite and looking over it just a little.

But tomorrow morning I'll be up at 5am studying until my 11:30 class. 1pm-3pm will be used in studying as well. God help me though, I simply CAN'T study something over three days prior to the test. Only did it for one course, and that class was ridiculously hard. I like internetting stuff. And playing games =o It's how I still have a full head of colored hair!

But when it comes to crunch time, I'm rarely caught with my pants down.