i'll do my homework later because the lights are on

btw i found my chapstick yesterday. great feeling. also for my lips.
btw just saw a percy jackson and the olympians: the lightening thief advertisement on my blog. foreshadowing?

so i think i actually learned something in my intro to western civ. class. i know right? learning? at a university? that class is just like a boring gathering of random history i know, or won't need to know. it's so boring. when are professors going to learn that it is counterproductive to make kids fall asleep in their class? i would compare it to a club that dresses up and analizes things like checkers and the colors of things.
the other day we were talking about the industrial revolution. if you weren't a factory owner, it was a terrible job. poor pay, unhealthy working conditions, and long working hours.long as in, you worked as long as there was sunlight. morning until night, then you went home to eat barely nothing and slept. despite completely sucking, it was productive. when electricity came, things changed. you could work through the night. lights created artificial daylight. the darkness wouldn't hold you back anymore. more things could be done during the day. electricity increased the working hours. even more productive.
my professor's point was this. lights have made us lazy.
having lights in the library, for example, you can work until midnight, when it closes. you could stay up all night writing a paper because of lights. you don't necessarily have to do it in daylight, like people used to. my professor said because of electricity people take advantage of this. why do it now in the daytime, when i could just stay up all night working on it? lights have led to procrastination and laziness. i can do it later. you can put it off because you can illuminate a room and see what you are doing. what a crazy thing to think about.
i heard this during class and was thought to myself, "woah, i've never thought of this in that way. i do put things off because i have the ability to work through the night. man, i'm glad i didn't live during that time, and had a project due."
so i put down my sudoku and payed attention the rest of class