The Black Hole of Studying (or is it not studying?)

*kittenpause* (as in *pause*"You said what?")

As I'm sitting at my computer employing the myriad ways to procrastinate during finals, it occurred to me what a black hole finals week is in the life of a student.

No, really. The only thing I have any idea about that's going on in the world is swine flu and that's largely because my mom told me about it (and the other people around me... the point is I didn't find out about it until the panic was well underway).

Finals week has always seemed really obnoxious to me. Does a teacher really need to give me a final test to see if I've learned the material? Shouldn't my grades over the semester indicate that? I'm either going to do the same as I've done all semester or I'm going to fluke and the test is going to bring me down. I'm convinced they only do it to make sure we pay attention the last week of class... in retrospect perhaps there is a point to finals...

But all this is brought on by the fact that instead of studying for my Theology and ACS finals, I've spent my day StumbleUpon-ing and watching Doogie Howser, M.D. But there's only so much stumbling a person can do. I can almost feel my brain frying... I thought maybe writing would help me feel intelligent again. I did look at my review sheet, realized it was much harder than I had anticipated, and promptly stopped paying attention.

So either way it goes, I fry my brain. There's the black hole of studying that I will be in for the next four or so days or there's the black hole of Stumbling. Or the black hole of minesweeper and spider solitaire. Agh! I open those games and I don't even realize why!!

Okay, I've wasted enough of your life. Maybe tell me how you like to waste your time/what's a black hole for you?

Now get out there and PLAY.

edit: sorry for the lack of links... the black holes have sucked out my brains...