Dr Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Procrastination

I have work to do yet I find myself doing just about anything else that will distract me from tasks at hand. I'm productive while procrastinating; I liken it to finishing a movie that you weren't sure you wanted to see in the first place. That being said this post is just another aspect of my procrastination.

I have a lot of things I could be working on right now. I need to go back and re-edit some of my old reviews to tighten them up. I need to figure out two topics for my feature article. (They have to deal with film in some way so if you've got any ideas...). And I need to write another 4,000 words for my final (and only actual graded) essay. I'm about to re-watch Dr Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb which is something I do need to do. And for those who haven't seen this film, stop reading this ridiculous blog, go out and find a copy of this fantastic movie. As Robert Phillip Kolker (critic) has stated - and accurately so - "our history in the years since Dr Strangelove has tended to imitate the film even more than the film, at the time of its making, imitated history." The movie is great, no doubt one of Stanley Kubrick's best.

I wanted to update this blog because I haven't done so in a while but I keep coming up short with things to fill it with. At this point it's nothing more than a quickly put together stream of consciousness. I'd like to think it's something more than that but I'm not sure it is. Perhaps when I begin to travel a bit more this thing will pick up interest and excitement. Until then I remain a boring postgraduate student.

Please don't think my post too pessimistic, that is not my intent. These are just the ponderings of a gentleman with a little extra on his mind. The days are getting very short here, which may be another factor. Sunlight is only out for about eight hours and begins to set a little before 4:30pm. I'm taking more vitamin D to counteract the lack of sunlight.

Well I should probably get back to doing a little bit of work. I've got quite a few things I need to read for this week and at least four films to watch. I quite enjoy all this reading, writing and viewing, I just wish it weren't so time consuming and I could get out and explore some more.