PROCRASTINATION IS A FULL TIME OCCUPATION

I think we are all used to postpone everything we have to do but I believe I’m a master in this field. Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent one and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute".

Procrastination is a real problem in my all day’s life but today I decided to take advantage of it and to write an article about it.  

Here is the story of my best procrastination occupations while I try to study.

Actually every time I seriously start to study, begin my own and terrible ritual of procrastination. The very first thing I start to do is playing with anything and everything I can find on my desk. I mean I see all this objects everyday but they are important to me ONLY when I try to study. I rediscover them every time! Even the old pen which doesn’t work since a while have is significance anew and I obverse it for a very long time. That is the depart of my second occ

upation, while looking at my desk items I notice that they are all speck of dust. And of course I feel the NEED to clean my room AT THIS MOMENT. My room is messed-up since more than a month BUT today is THE day where I want to clean it! Let’s start to clean everything and to pass the vacuum cleaner in the bedroom. 

And that’s how I switch with my third occupation! Indeed I can’t clean without listening to music. The problem is that when I start to play music on my iPod is really hard for me to turn it off. You may say I could begin my study while listening to music. But the life of a procrastinator isn’t that easy.

Listening music makes me want to look through the window.  And once again, even if there is NOTHING to see, I always I contemplate it that as it is the most beautiful view that I’ve ever seen!  This moment can last a long time, sometimes more than an hour and can even be double if there is a cat of some other cute animals!

 Then I try to study anew, so I turn on my computer and I put my hands on the keyboard.  HORROR, my nails are really too long!  I try to forget about it and to stay focus on my study but I can’t. I can only think about my nails. So i take my nail-clippers and we are off!

I know it should take only a few minutes but when I don’t want to study I become a “really girls” and I can’t ONLY cut my nails… I need to file them and then to use a nails lacquer. Nails lacquers is a perfect invention for procrastination by the way, thank to it I can waste a lot of time because I can’t use my hands before my nails are dry. 

Then comes the fatal moment, when I have anything else to do which force me to study again. I really need to hurry up in my study because I have already waste a lot of time… BUT all of this was without taking into account all the procrastination proposition you can find online.

I mean, the real procrastinator can't start his computer without going first on Facebook also named: Procrastination Palace. Every time I begin with answer to my messages or my comments which is understandable but then I start to make a lot of inexplicable stuff. I click everywhere, watch picture from 2008 of friends I haven’t seen since a while… I only become award of the situation while watching pictures of random guys… Then to make my less guilty and to make something more useful I start to read some newspapers articles I can find a link on facebook … I insist on the fact I haven’t study anything so far and I think that the only way to be able to stay focus on my lesson is to take a little nap before and then I will be ready! Of course this “little nap” always changes itself against a “big night” and that is the ways how my day finished. 

“Tomorrow, I promise, I will study more”.

Roller Derby

HISTORY

Roller derby is an American show originally created by Leo Seltzer in the 1930′s.

At the beginning it was speed roller skating, including tripping and pushing. So due to rowdiness at some events, it acquired quickly a reputation. (For ex: In 1940 more than 5 million spectators watched it in TV.) But all the show was in reality fake-fighting and everything was thought up.

After exploding in mainstream culture, the Roller Derby died out because of that roller derby teams relished the showmanship and theatrical antics that riled up the crowd.

Roller derby as a sport has enjoyed a few different revivals over the years, the most current revival occurring in the early 2000′s.

The women then self-organized creating a new generation of roller derby, open to women only.

Women's roller derby evolved from the fake-fighting version some remember from the 1970s, to a regulated, hard-hitting, and purely athletic sport.

In fall 2009, cinemas across the United States were treated to the release of the feature film Whip It, Drew Barrymore's directorial which centered on the story of a girl seeking herself, and finding it, in roller derby.

The Womens Flat Track Derby Association was founded in 2004 as a governing body to oversee the fast-growing sport. Today roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, nearly half of them outside the U.S.

RULES :

Roller derby is a sport played on roller skates and it is mostly just played by women. 

Two teams of roller derby players on four-wheeled (quad) skate around an oval track.

The track can be flat or banked. A roller derby game is called a match or a bout and last 60 minutes. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. The girls simultaneously skating counterclockwise on a circuit track. Jammers get a 2-minute time period, called a jam, when they can score points.  Teams then have 30 seconds to get on the track and line up for the next jam

There are 5 players on each team:

1 jammer, who races around the track faster than the rest of the team

4 blockers, who try to keep the other team's jammer from passing them

The jammer is the only player that can score points. The jammer's team gets a point every time the jammer passes one of the other team's players. Before a jam starts the teams line up side-by-side: The blockers first and then jammers behind them. The jam starts when a whistle blows. Then, everyone, including the jammers get to leave their designated areas.

Blockers alike try to help their own team's jammer get through the pack, and they try to slow down the other team's jammer. (Its means that’s a game where offense and defense are played simultaneously) The first jammer to get through the pack without leaving the track gets to be the "lead jammer". She got the advantage that she can put her hands on her hips when she wants to stop the jam early.

When the jammers are near the pack, everyone is allowed to bump into each other.

If someone is trying to push someone from the other team out of the way, then they have to be careful how they do it. They can only push from the side, and they have to use their shoulders, the top part of their arms, their hips, or the top part of their legs—so tripping, shoving, punching, or pushing the other team's players from behind is not allowed.

Players who break the rules are sent to the penalty box for a full minute, leaving their team stranded on the track without them.

Even with these rules, roller derby players can get knocked down and get badly hurt, so usually only adults can play full contact roller derby.

Inasmuch as roller derby is a contact sport, there is a risk of injury. Injuries range from common bruises and sprains to broken bones and concussions and even sometimes beyond.  That’s why all the girls are required to wear a safety equipment, including a helmet, wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads, and mouth guards.

What good bloggers do ? (Or what bad bloggers should do...)

What I really like when I browse one blog, is feeling concerned with what the blogger write on it. Some people are only using blogs as a kind of “online secret diary” and are talking about their own experience and feeling without be able to SHARE it with the audience. That doesn’t mean the blogger doesn’t have to give his own opinion, in the contrary, I really appreciate when they do that, but he must bear in mind that someone read him a have to be able to create a RELATION with the reader.

No doubt the more important aspect to me is that the blogger must show his INTEREST about his topics. If he shares his PASSION while writing, his readers are going to be really interested and curious! Thanks to blog I sometimes read about topics which at first sight, don’t interest me; but, after reading them, I want to read more about those because the blogger really convince me.

A good blogger should not miss out on his LAYOUT. I won't say is something determinant to me, but it still a really important aspect because is the first striking features. When I try to read a post, and there is too many pictures, animations, colors or anything else which disturb my reading… Well I just can't stay focus on the information and I won't probably visit this blog again.

To me, if a blog groups together all these aspects, it’s a real ENTERTAINMENT and an enjoyment to read it.  And I think that’s the most important for a blogger: Make your reader glad to have read your article, don’t you think?

                                                         

For my own blog:

I really hope that for my blog I will be able to follow my own advices, because I wish it would be an entertainment for the readers. It doesn’t mean I only want to write about funny topics, but I I’ll be glad to share my point and I hope it will arouses reactions. It’s about open the doors of my thought and I hope people are going to follow me.

What am I afraid of?

Sharing my passions and my culture with other people is something I’m used to do and that I love in my Erasmus life and I actually pretty excited to start a blog for this class. But the fact I have to write in a foreign language is something that scared me. English isn’t a language I’m comfortable with and I only use its common expressions. I really need to work on it; otherwise my posts run the risk to be boring.