The Long Wait Paradox

I type this as I wait patiently in line to get an ear from my department's graduate advising office, and I have realised the obvious irony of waiting in lines. It goes something like this:

The amount of time you will have to wait in line to get something done, is inversely proportional to a combination of the amount of time you need to get your work done and the relative importance of that work to your other activities that get held up.

I know. You are already about to close this window in utter pity of the quality of this post, but that's what uninteresting long lines can do to your mind, especially when that time could have been better spent in much more fruitful things like catching up on some sleep, or a continued reading of Yann Martel's Life of Pi, a review of which might be the next post.