Okay, I have *got* to get this report done, and the survey, and the description for the job posting. Yeah, I brought work home with me over my long weekend and its bites. I can't get motivated. So I'm doing the thing I do best: put it off.
I ordered my textbooks today, $255.48. Can you say hope-I-get-an-excess-check-otherwise-I'm-screwed? I would like to think I'll actually carry through on my plan to get my reading done in the next 4 weeks before class starts - but there is that thing, of course. That thing I do so well. Procrastinate.
I think procrastinating is highly underrated. I mean, not everyone can. There are those who will gradually come loose at the seams at the thought of waiting just one more day, just a little bit longer, just five more minutes...I, however, am not one of those. I've heard procrastinating justified as "...but I work better under pressure..." and "...that's when I get some of my best ideas - when I'm in a time crunch..." Bull. Bottom line is, I just wanna do what I wanna do, and I wanna do it until I get tired of it.
I've put off a great many things in my life, some with good results, some not-so-good. Let's see....
I put off marrying until I was 23....and would've put it off longer if he hadn't been going into the Army...
I put off having children until I was 33...okay, so maybe I didn't but nature did....The timing turned out to be perfect...
I put off getting a divorce until I found out he was making life plans that didn't include me; not much you can say for that one....
Wait, I see a pattern here - 23, 33 - there it is! What am I going to put off until 43? Holy smoke - what am I going to do? Now I've got to figure out what I can postpone for 2 more years (okay, 1 year and a few months - happy now)? Too late to put off school. Can't be dating, as I have no prospects; ditto for marriage. So what'll it be? Hmmm, I think I'll work on solving this tomorrow. After all, I work best under pressure.....
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