As I am sitting here trying to catch up on my writing as the impending friday deadline is looming ahead, I wonder to myself:

Why do I keep on procrastinating, knowing full well of the consequences?
Why is it so hard for me to keep my goal of writing 3-pages a day?

Lehigh will be inaugurating its first female president this Friday. To celebrate this event, we are having a full day Inauguration Symposium with distinguished speakers with numerous awards (e.g., the Nobel prize, the National Medal of Science). One of the speakers will cover this precise issue:
“Why bad habits are so hard to break and good habits are so hard to make”
And she’s approaching this issue from the neurobiology perspective and not the behavioral stuff that I’ve been indoctrinated with. I’ll try to get to her talk tomorrow.

As if I haven’t procrastinated enough, I discovered Plumb’s website today. Her song Cut is pretty good, I even bought the remix version of that song from iTunes and plan to set that as my power song on my iPod+Nike. As I ended my run today, I heard this on my iPod, “This is Lance Armstrong. Congratulations! You have just recorded your personal best for the mile.”

There are links on today’s entry but there are not obvious. I’ll have to ask techy tai-lo if he can change the color of the links.

Self-monitoring of writing behavior (cummulative record):
2427 words (still 10 pages!!)