The Oxford Dictionary defines procrastination as ‘the action of postponing or delaying something’, but the people of the Wiki-kingdom put the nail in the coffin with their more elaborate version:
Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time…
Has it really been eight months since I used this blog?
Time flies when you’re busy though right? I’m sure I heard that phrase somewhere once before only it included something about fun as well… Nothing’s coming to me though. Alas. Here’s a brief and entirely non-linear recap of my last eight months in phrases and images – And yes, you’re dead right in that this very post is just a way for me to avoid another job higher up the priority chain!
First things first – I waited patiently. I waited impatiently. I stretched. I screamed. I wobbled. I hobbled. And I ran. And then I ran some more.
I flew. I drove. I snoozed on trains. I walked. I glided and I slided. I traveled the world to both new places and old, for the purposes of both business and pleasure – and sometimes even both simultaneously.
I fell in love with Canada all over again.
Aside from the travels themselves, I explored, with old friends and new, and my partner in crime too. I ate food – incredible food – and discovered some incredible new spaces and places in the process.
I followed my feet…
I worked – a lot…
In amongst it all, Still Waters celebrated their first birthday with an alley-cat race, and it was huge. I still haven’t been able to recap it properly…
And so with that final splurge, a new cycle begins. Let’s go 2015.
Bring the change.
Ciaran O'Neill 