Arashi aids in the art of procrastination....
I have been trying to get a memo finished for work since Monday, and I've made almost zero progress even though it's now Wednesday. Why, you ask? Simple...Arashi = lots of opportunities for procrastination.
My memo's on the "Overview of the Accounting Process" for a 401(k) plan and vacation plan (the Form 1510 for you public accounting people in the know). It's part of a benefit plan audit that I'm helping out on this summer. I was on it last summer so it's easier for me to write the memo since I'm supposedly "familiar" with the way things work. Ummm, I was a first year staff last summer...I didn't really understand what I was doing, but shhhhh! Let's not tell them that, ok?
I swear for every 15 minutes that I've spent on this memo, I've taken up to an hour break, surfing the Internet for Arashi news. I've obsessively reloaded my LJ friends page every 5 minutes. I check out my neighborhood page on Vox. I reload my Youtube search results for Arashi, sorting my results by date uploaded. I check out my Google Reader feed for pages that I've subscribed to relating to Arashi. In other words, pretty much everything EXCEPT work on my accounting process memo. I've even organized the iTunes library on my work laptop for my Arashi music. (I recently got an upgrade to a new laptop last month, and I haven't had time to fully personalize it yet). There are just so many things out there to be distracted by!
To be fair, I have finished some work this week. I've gotten a lot of workpapers done....just probably not at the pace that my senior would have liked. But then again, she's out on vacation this week so it doesn't really matter that much. She's away camping for the July 4th weekend. Lucky duck. xD
All this has made me realize that I was in a way lucky to not have discovered Arashi while I was in college. I would have gotten no studying done at this rate. I was already distracted enough by Facebook...a distraction as big as Arashi would have ensured that I would have flunked out. Well, maybe not flunk out, but I wouldn't have gotten the grades that I wanted. I'm obsessive about my GPA...yes, I know the GPA is not a measure of what you really know or a predictor of future success, but I still wanted a pretty number on my resume when I graduated Berkeley. Now that I'm in the world of public accounting and auditing, I can afford to be a little distracted (sometimes).
**End Rambling Entry**
My memo's on the "Overview of the Accounting Process" for a 401(k) plan and vacation plan (the Form 1510 for you public accounting people in the know). It's part of a benefit plan audit that I'm helping out on this summer. I was on it last summer so it's easier for me to write the memo since I'm supposedly "familiar" with the way things work. Ummm, I was a first year staff last summer...I didn't really understand what I was doing, but shhhhh! Let's not tell them that, ok?
I swear for every 15 minutes that I've spent on this memo, I've taken up to an hour break, surfing the Internet for Arashi news. I've obsessively reloaded my LJ friends page every 5 minutes. I check out my neighborhood page on Vox. I reload my Youtube search results for Arashi, sorting my results by date uploaded. I check out my Google Reader feed for pages that I've subscribed to relating to Arashi. In other words, pretty much everything EXCEPT work on my accounting process memo. I've even organized the iTunes library on my work laptop for my Arashi music. (I recently got an upgrade to a new laptop last month, and I haven't had time to fully personalize it yet). There are just so many things out there to be distracted by!
To be fair, I have finished some work this week. I've gotten a lot of workpapers done....just probably not at the pace that my senior would have liked. But then again, she's out on vacation this week so it doesn't really matter that much. She's away camping for the July 4th weekend. Lucky duck. xD
All this has made me realize that I was in a way lucky to not have discovered Arashi while I was in college. I would have gotten no studying done at this rate. I was already distracted enough by Facebook...a distraction as big as Arashi would have ensured that I would have flunked out. Well, maybe not flunk out, but I wouldn't have gotten the grades that I wanted. I'm obsessive about my GPA...yes, I know the GPA is not a measure of what you really know or a predictor of future success, but I still wanted a pretty number on my resume when I graduated Berkeley. Now that I'm in the world of public accounting and auditing, I can afford to be a little distracted (sometimes).
**End Rambling Entry**