This being my first blog post, I thought it should be about something important and meaningful. But this being my first blog post, I also have no idea how this works. So please bear with my incompetence.

I think I'd better start with something I know a lot about; something very useful to life in general, and something everyone does even if they deny it - unless they're superhuman like my mother of course.

Procrastination.

The most fundamental instinct of people like me. To put off doing stuff you don't want to do. To ignore problems until they go away...or in the occasional unfortunate scenario, until they turn around, slap you in the face, and make your life a misery until you sort them out. But procrastination is also about enjoying life a little, even when you have a ton of work to do...

People who know me will know that when I get bogged down I tend to lose all productivity and shut out all my friends, spending my spare time mindlessly scrolling through Pinterest and Facebook. I don't even like Facebook! The other thing I do is go on YouTube and watch my favourite videos again and again and again and again and again... yep. Not good. I'm sure other people have similar habits.

So instead I have a few go-to activities which, while being a distraction from what I'm meant to be doing, also keep my brain awake - which is especially important during exam period. I suppose I'll end up blogging about most of them at some point. This blog could almost be named "101 methods of procrastination". So here you are, just a few:
- Learning how to do a Rubik's cube
- Playing music (for me it's Disney songs at the piano for hours on end)
- Writing short stories
- Making Flexagons (you'll find out what they are soon enough)
- Writing songs
- Any type of artwork, as long as it isn't mindless doodling
- Reading a difficult book. Either factual (booooring) or Lord of the Rings - epic length with a ton of description and sentences that take up half a page each.
- Knitting/crocheting something difficult - especially if you invent the pattern.

I haven't been doing so well lately. But perhaps this blog will help motivate me a little. After all, my problem at the moment is lots of hard maths so blogging about it might help me get my head around it - and teach some random people on the internet something about second order differential equations? Well, maybe I won't write too much about that.

I'd better end now before I start rambling. Unfortunately, hard maths awaits downstairs and I don't want to go and do it. Perhaps I should go and play through the other half of Les Miserables on the piano...

Please ask questions and follow and stuff. It would be nice to have somebody actually read this.

May the force be with you!