A life-long tension
Tonight I'm presented with a problem that has haunted me my whole life: Work or Fun? I've got a big project due tomorrow which I naturally haven't started yet. I also happen to be the new proud owner of a X-Box 360, purchased just last night and still sitting unopened in my living room. It comes down to this: will I resist the sirens call of the X-Box and focus on the work that needs to be done? Or will I succumb to the inevitable and play NBA Live '07 all night?
The old, high school/college Jake wouldn't even have regarded this as a choice: I'd be playing X-Box, no question about it. I'd probably come up with some lame excuse for why I didn't complete my homework, if I bothered to come up with an excuse at all and then I'd hand in the work a month late, if I handed it in at all. Good times. It remains to be seen what the "new", older, wiser Jake will do. I regard it as a sign of progress that I'm at least thinking about being "responsible" and doing my work.
I'm planning on at the very least bringing all the stuff I need to complete said project home with me so I can be ready to accomplish something should my more mature impulses (of which I have very few) win out. It remains to be seen if I'll actually do anything productive. I thought about pulling an all-nighter a la college but with the Orlando Crew coming in tomorrow night I'm probably headed for nights without sleep already. Such is life.
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