I am convinced that it is possible to create a region of personal entropy. By this, I mean that by being lackadaisical enough, a person can generate a field of null-energy powerful enough to rival the Sargasso Sea. This apathy zone sucks everyone the the area into it and creates an even larger void. Personal entropy usually strikes on Saturday mornings.
On Saturday mornings, my personal entropy zone is so powerful that I can fritter the whole morning away with several cups of coffee and a bowl of Cocoa Puffs. I haven't accomplished anything (not even anything nutritional), I'm still unbathed, in need of exercise, and becomingly increasingly irritable. USMCMan falls into the well of entropy without any resistance and usually ends up watching reruns of 'Three Stooges' episodes (ugh) with Thing1. (Due to lack of brain-matter, Thing2 doesn't attract the gravity well of personal entropy. She just skimms along eating carpet fuzz and worrying about her next feeding.)
Is it just the summer heat (it's damn hot and humid here!) or is it just me? Does anyone else have days where it is IMPOSSIBLE to get going, to get out of the house, to accomplish ANYTHING??? I'm sure you do.
What do you do about it? Give in or fight entropy?
4 comments:
This has got to be one of your most hilarious offerings to date! I actually laughed out loud when I got to the part about thing 2. Normally I just force myself into useful activity. I find that once I get started I am able to continue my momentum.
ArmyGuy, for a guy, you are highly motivated. You seem to be very task-oriented, which gives you momentum with your jobs. I'm a list-maker, which does seem to fight off the etropic effects...just not on Saturday. Maybe I need to just write-off my Saturdays as a loss and move on to Sunday chores?
I'm wallowing in a three day entropic funk. Just got back from two wonderful weeks in Colorado to be assaulted by the thick humid air of southwest Missouri and I don't want to do anything. Dragging myself to work the past two days has been torture and I have hardly stepped outside the house when I'm not at work. ARGH!
I experience the same ennui and lack of motivation in the evenings after work. I congratulate myself on surviving another day of library hell, and I feel positive and motivated upon leaving--with plans of house cleaning and home improvement projects getting done!
Then I get home, turn on the TV and get my computer in my lap. Next thing I know, it's time to go to bed. Lame.
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