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[listersgirl]

Let's just say you were supposed to buy tickets for something, and you forgot. When you finally remembered (at a time that wasn't during a meeting or while on the subway), would you,

a) rush to the computer and buy the tickets right away, being thankful that you finally remembered, or

b) panic over the fact that the tickets might now all be sold out, and therefore avoid doing anything about it for the next three days, while fretting the whole time?

OH BRAIN.

This is clearly the same part of my cortex that prevents me from opening right away any new technology I buy, because I might not be able to figure out how to use it, and rather than discovering that immediately, I prefer to worry about the possibility for a week.

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[yagowe.livejournal.com]

That last part sounds familiar. We got a webcam for Christmas and I still haven't hooked it up, for exactly that reason.

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

I feel that. Boy, do I feel that.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

Ditto the technology. not the tickets. I'd have bought mine eleventy-two years in advance.

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

there must be something wrong with the grand design when we have to find ways to sneak up on our own brains in order to do what we need to do.

shhhhh! Be vewy quiet. I'm hunting my bwain...

[somepeople.livejournal.com]

The tickets, I'd rush to get. I like buying things online.

As for technology -- I bought my current PC in May 2002 and didn't take it out of the box until... October or November of that year? I just couldn't face digging all of the junk out my then-home-office, which I needed to do so I could move the desk, which I needed to do before I put a new computer on it. This is how nothing happens in my life; I just can't focus on the little steps to stop the big thing from overwhelming me.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Doh. :-)

I definitely know the bit about avoiding doing anything, having once got something wrong. Why, brain, why? It doesn't make sense!

Have you been able to get tickets now, or are you still in the avoidance phase? I hope there are some left

[erinmorgenstern.livejournal.com]

This has happened to me, and I went a) as fast as humanly possible. If I recall correctly I still ended up with decent seats, too.

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

More likely option c. rush to the computer and buy the tickets right away, and thend spend the next three days fretting that I shouldn't have for various reasons.

I'm glad you managed to get your tickets. I hope it's a good show and makes up for torturing you in the cortex.

[starfishchick]

Glad you got the tickets in any case!

(Did you have a link of in-season-in-Ontario-food to send me?)