Procrastination: the best nation in the world

So, something occurred to me the other day. (Please hold your applause until the very end.) Nobody is going to write this dissertation for me. I know, right? What a monumental discovery. They should give me a t-shirt that has Captain Obvious emblazoned in gold across it. But it's so true, and it's so hard to come to terms with that fact. And it's not just dissertation-writing; it's everything. If there's something that needs to be done, I'd bet that nine out of ten people will willingly do laundry or scrub the toilet before they actually get to it. And I don't really know why that is, actually, because we're only postponing the inevitable. I remember in college, my apartment was never so clean as it was during finals week. And I was contemplating all of this today while I was writing, and it reminded me of an Ellen Degeneres routine we watched once. So, naturally, I hunted around on YouTube until I found it. Watch the whole thing if you want, or start watching the relevant part at 4:15.