Procrastinators Unite…Tomorrow!
January 25th, 2012 § 2 Comments
Procrastination is a helluva…disease???
Yeah, that’s what I tell myself in order to justify my negligent behavior: I have this incurable disease that I can only get rid of via divine intervention.
Dear Big Baby Jesus,
I swear if my professor allows me to hand in this paper that was due last week – next week…I promise I will clear the three week’s worth of work on my desk, so that I can complete that paper that was due yesterday.
Love always,
ME
I’ll be honest, I procrastinated for a good twenty minutes before I pressed one key to compose this blog. I think it begins on those mornings when I hit the snooze button…and I do my 60-second countdown in my head. I repeat this countdown several times before I actually get up! The whole point of the countdown is to get up after the count reaches one, but that almost never happens. Once, finally up, well sitting up, I turn on my Pandora app, and tune into the Deepak Chopra station. I meditate for about ten-fifteen minutes. Ummmm, I’ll say more like twelve minutes – it takes me a while to get in the groove. After my morning meditation, I’m supposed to write in my journal, but that usually gets put off until I get to work, when I am supposed to be clearing off the pile on my desk, which is supposed to get smaller as the week closes, but always seems to grow.
After my morning meditation, I kneel at the side of my bed to say a prayer (if I hadn’t said one while laying down in the bed in between my 60-second countdowns – anticipating that I won’t have time to kneel and pray because I have to wash the dishes before I head to work because I didn’t get to them last night because when I was supposed to be doing my homework, I was scrap-booking, or writing my daily journal entry that I should have completed in the morning).
After my prayer, or my meditation, or my 60-second countdown, I turn on my energy music. My energy music is my music that gets me really going in the morning. It can be a distraction at times because instead of, sometimes, looking for something to wear to work – a feat that should have been conquered the night before, that may not have gotten done, because I was up all night trying to complete an assignment that I received three weeks prior; I may be looking in the mirror – dancing and smiling – so not looking for work gear.
After picking out my work gear, brushing my teeth, and eating breakfast, I am late for work. I miss my bus, because I was eating the breakfast that I really didn’t have time for; so, now instead of saving a few extra cents in gas, I must now drive the gas guzzler, that reminds me how thirsty it is, once I turn it on and my tank is on E! I didn’t get gas the night before because I was busy…
LOL at the Dear Big Baby Jesus. I came across some old emails that I sent to professors asking for extensions when I was in undergrad. They were so pitiful but thankfully I had nice professors.
And not much has changed in the few years since then because I have been procrastinating on my thesis for about a year now. Which is why I blog so much these days – I tell myself that at least I’m doing something productive
lol. the thing is, I thought I would have learned from my undergrad experience, but instead I feel like I’m re-reading that chapter of my life. *sigh* I’ll get it together!