weather + laziness

oh man, i did a 4,120,837 word paper/dissertation/treatise/discourse/wateva in the given 1 and a half hour. my brain needed a 6-hour break from all that data upload-download.

and now, my 6-hour break is up (spent it on food + friends re-run + bed), and i still haven't started reading for my next paper. very happily due in 2 days' time.

must be the weather. yeah, blame it on the weather, u say.

today is hot, sticky, and totally lazy. hey, i'm currently in north africa for goodness' sake. and it's summer. and you can add exams to that, too. thank you.

and thanks to google, we can all blame the weather. apparently, the weather IS to be blamed. haha. really. you simply can't beat an article taken from popsci (sourced from British Journal of Psychology = boring read!!).

breakdown maa yalii:

"Humidity, temperature, and hours of sunshine had the greatest effect on mood."
[humidity.. check]
[high temperature.. check]

"High levels of humidity lowered scores on concentration while increasing reports of sleepiness."
[low concentration.. check]
[more sleep.. check check check]

"Rising temperatures lowered anxiety and skepticism mood scores."
[lowered anxiety~ that must explains why i'm disturbingly relaxed eventhough i've got to finish 1,327 pages by the next 48 hours. not to mention memorising terminologies in a third language (and not one-third). its foreign allright. uh-uh.. check]
[lowered skepticism = better self-confidence?? gaga. low concentration.. check]

"Humidity was the most significant predictor in regression and canonical correlation analysis."
[in other words, you can blame it all on the humidity. yeahhhhhhhhhh~]

more boring sidenote: apparently, weather also affects investors' confidence in the stock market. powerful mother nature.

but of course, there's always a way out. it's crunch time, ladies and gentlemen.