Day 18: Hello, Mr Guilt

I love my bedroom. It is the one room in the world that symbolises me- it contains all my belongings, is painted my favourite colour (yellow) and has pictures and other things I like stuck up on the surfaces that won't get too damaged by blu tack. Basically, if you walked into my room, you would know that it belonged to me.

Not only does it symbolise me, but it is also the place that I spend 85% of my time when I am home. It is perfect. However, recently, I don't want to be here.

You see, every time I come into my room, Guilt is waiting for me. Sometimes he's sitting on my bed. Sometimes he's hiding under it. Sometimes he's sitting in my chair, which is particularly annoying as we then have to argue for a bit until he finally gets up and lets me sit down. I've asked him politely to leave, but he's not going anywhere. He says he's staying here until the 11th of June, which coincidentally is the date of my last exam.

I don't think it's just coincidence that Guilt has promised to stay that long. You see, the other reason that you can tell this is my room is by its distinct lack of any evidence of work or revision. I have three quarters of one of my wardrobe doors covered in post it notes, reminding me about one half of the Biology I have to learn, and I have a couple of pointers about 'How to Write a Drama Essay' on the other wardrobe door, and a small messy pile of revision textbooks covered in dust on top of a shelf. But that's it.

17 days.

17 days until my first exam.

But I CAN'T revise. It's impossible. And I HATE that.

So I have to do something about it.

You know I mentioned I was going to cut down on internet usage? Well now I really am, BIG time.

Until 11th of June 2009, I am only allowed to go on four websites:

-YouTube
-Hotmail
-Blogger
-BBC

Now this may seem a bit feeble, since I could still quite easily waste my time on these sites, but let me explain. Blogger I have to come on, it being Blog Almost Every Day April And Part Of May and all. Hotmail I also have to go on to check my emails, which takes on average 30 seconds a day, so that should be ok. BBC includes BBC Bitesize, which I will probably turn to in times of need. As for YouTube (and also BBC iPlayer, I'm sure you were probably thinking about that too), well, I need a break sometime. I am not someone who can keep going and going and going. My brain has to have a break sometime.

This does also exclude Facebook and Twitter, two of my biggest wastes of time recently. So in all, I think that this will cut down internet usage dramatically.

I should also note that any website I am required to use for homework is allowed, and also Google, although I have the Google toolbar, so this is technically not going on the website.

OH NO. I forgot Wikipedia. And so many others. This is gonna be tougher than I thought...

But it will happen. 46 days of only four websites. It can be done, right?