Sunday, 14 February 2010

“The time has come”, the walrus said, “to talk of many things,”

“The time has come”, the walrus said, “to talk of many things..” Lewis Carroll http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html

I used this quote recently – or made reference to it and decided to have a look at the walrus.
What a sad thing to do, you might think.
Yes, it is. But I was procrastinating and I’m very good at that when there is something I don’t want to do.
I used to have a ‘procrastination-pot’ for someone I knew, and every time they began procrastinating, they had to put a marble in it, and repay 1 minute per marble at the end of the day.
If I had a pot, it would be overflowing.
Yesterday I put off; writing a document, cooking, vacuuming, filing, hanging up my clothes etc etc.
I don’t want you to think I am lazy, quite the opposite. I am a worker and when my heart is into something, I work like a Trojan.
The document is proving hard because my heart is in it more than I can say, but it is hard emotionally.
To give you an idea about where my brain is, I sent an email asking for people to comment on my attachment and then failed to attach it.

So, because I KNOW you are interested; here are some walrus facts;

A walrus can live for up to 40 years. A walrus can weigh up to 1.5 tons. Both male and female walruses have tusks.The Latin for Walrus is odobenus rosmarus and it means - tooth walking sea horse. Walruses can reach lengths of up to 3.5m. Every two or three years in May or June, the cow will give birth to a single calf
The calf will be able to swim at birth and be about 1.2m. Aside from man, their only enemies are orca whales and polar bears. Walruses are endangered. They sound like a beach ball - if you don’t believe me, listen to this audio;
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/walrus/

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