What to do when you should be doing something else

Rozzy needs to post something. Actually, Rozzy should be studying, but hey who cares. What should Rozzy write about? Procrastinating!

In my opinion, procrastinating is healthy once in a while... probably not as often I do it, but oh well. Anyway, leaving things undone and just taking a break is something we all need to learn to do every so often, especially if we are COMPLETELY STRESSED OUT like most of the Year 12s I know (including me).

So how do you procrastinate?

Presenting... Rozzy's Ultimate Guide to Wasting Time!

1. Make a list of things you need to do.
2. Put it away so you don't feel too guilty when you don't do these things.
3. Hop on the net and check your emails. If they're important, don't reply.
4. Go to MLIA. If you need it, there are about 500 pages of hilarious and average things to read about.
5. Go to LunchTimers. This one's especially good if you don't want to think too much. Play simple flash games with strangers and waste time.
6. Watch A Very Potter Musical, even if you've seen it before. If that's not enough, download the free soundtrack.
7. Watch Little White Lie, which is an excellent webseries also by Starkid.
8. If you've had enough of web-based procrastination, try reading a book you've read a hundred times before like, say... Harry Potter. There are lots of them to take up your time.
9. Have a nice, long shower, especially if the weather is hot (like it is here). Unless you have water restrictions, in which case you should go and stare wistfully at the shower.
10. Read blogs with no real purpose, like this one.

EDIT: So I took my own advice and had a nice long shower, and in the process remembered some of my favourite procrastination techniques that I somehow managed to forget.

11. Watch a whole series of your favourite TV show on DVD. (I like watching Scrubs)
12. Read fanfiction, preferably of the really crappy "omg plz review my first fanfic i luv u guys so much i wont spell anything properly!" variety, so you can laugh at it.
13. Rearrange your bookcase so your books are in alphabetical order by author. (Yes, I actually do this sometimes.)
14. Watch informercials (only for the REALLY desperate).

Post your other time-wasting ideas in the comments!

Rozzy Rozzy Rozzy...

So I thought I should introduce myself properly...

I'm a 17-year-old Year 12 student from Darwin, Australia. (For those of you who don't know, Darwin is up in the tropics, right under Indonesia. Right now it is really really humid and I wish it would rain already. Lembab sekali!) I enjoy music, Irish dancing, spending time with my gorgeous friends and crazy internet fads. I am a Christian, but I don't think that will come into this blog too much - maybe just the occasional quasi-philosophical brain fart. Also I did Indonesian at school until last year, so if I randomly break out into Indo, just ignore me.

If you're wondering about my name: no, it is not my real name (duh), it's a nickname given to me by a couple of friends. In fact, the name of this blog came from another nickname, Stork (I'm 5'10").

If you'd like to find a blog from someone who's crazier than I am, check out my friend M's.

A few random questions that I stole from M's blog:


What is your occupation? Student and Irish dancing teacher (I'm not qualified or anything, I just help out and do choreography and stuff).

What colour are your socks right now? Are you crazy? It's the Build-Up in Darwin! Having said that, the socks I wore to school today were white and purple.

What are you listening to right now? Granger Danger from A Very Potter Musical (yes, I am obsessed, but hey it's good stuff!)

Can you drive a shift stick? If that means a manual, yes I can, but not very well (I've been very lazy and, even though I got my L's 18 months ago, I've driven a grand total of four times).

Last person you spoke to on the phone? Probably M... it usually is :)

How old are you today? What, is it my birthday or something? Lol. I'm 17.

What is your favourite drink? Lemon lime and bitters.

Have you ever dyed your hair? No, but I'm thinking that might be one of my "OMG I'm at uni" freakout things.

Favourite food? Pavlova (yumyumyum)

What is the last movie that you watched? Apollo 13... I don't really know why, we just randomly watched it. The one before that was Peter Pan (awesome).

How do you vent anger? I don't really know... I like M's idea of killing off Sims based on people that annoy me. I need to try that.

What is your favourite season? The wet season is awesome! For all of you who have been deprived of living in the tropics, I choose winter (rugging up is novel for me).

Eye colour? Grey (very boring).

Hair colour? Brown

Height? Too tall haha... about 5'10". I really should know what that is in cm, seeing as we don't use imperial here in Australia, but I don't.

Finally, the eternal question that I added for the hell of it:
Harry Potter or Twilight? I actually really like both of them (I know, sacreligious much?) but Harry Potter always wins.

Sudah!
...That means finished :)



Quote of the day:
"Today in my dorm room the doorbell rang. Sitting outside the door was a box labeled 'A present from your friends in room 201'. I opened it and a guy popped out, gave me a high five and ran off down the hallway. MLIA."

Have you heard of Pigfarts?

Time for a shameless plug, methinks. If you don't know who StarKid are, you need to find out. They have not only created a masterpiece from a masterpiece, but they have also injected new enthusiasm into a waning fandom.

What am I talking about? A Very Potter Musical, of course.

Imagine this. It's the first weekend of the mid-year holidays. I've promised myself that I will have a well-earned break from school before tackling the mountain of work I have to do. Sounds good in theory, but two days in and I'm incredibly bored. I find myself on Harry Potter fansites I haven't visited in years. What do I find? A link to HP the Musical, which someone has just uploaded onto Youtube.

My first thought? This is probably going to be crap.

I'm desperate for something to do, so I click the link and am swept up in the world of a very different kind of Hogwarts, where Dumbledore loves High School Musical, Malfoy wants to go to Pigfarts, Voldemort is sexy (and just wants to dance again) and Ron is a chocaholic. Well that can only lead to disaster and hilarity!

Seriously, I've been quoting this for months. I've been cracking up at really inappropriate moments, I've had the song "Granger Danger" stuck in my head for about six weeks straight, and people often go, "Oh, she's going on about that stupid musical again." It is absolutely addictive.

I'm not the only one either; one look at the StarKidPotter Facebook page will tell you how much this has taken fandom by a storm. The first video got 200,000 hits within two days. Within a week there was even fanart.

There have been a few hitches along the way. The entire musical was taken off Youtube after two days due to copyright issues, although it was eventually reposted with its new name and all the dirty jokes edited out (which I was very sad about - one of the pivotal jokes now doesn't make sense, and we are now deprived of hearing Ron's reply of "It wasn't me, I swear!" to Hermione's "Someone's coming!"). But with material this good, the StarKidPotter crew can afford to do anything.

And despite this, one of the most impressive parts of this whole bonanza is the way the StarKid crew have taken their popularity into their stride. The group has let their fans know what is going on every step of the way, has posted behind-scenes-footage, has appeared at Potter conventions, has uploaded the soundtrack for free download and have on the whole been both caring and humble.

Don't just take my word for it. Go and check it out yourself. I can guarantee you, between the flawless writing, the excellent songs, the hilarious jokes and Voldemort's abs, everyone can find something to enjoy.

*Voldemort out, bitches!*