I'm taking procrastination to a whole new level tonight; I'm reaching a personal best. I've got a paper due tomorrow (well, today), just before noon. I didn't start writing this paper until ten o'clock this evening. I wasn't busy this weekend, I just didn't feel like doing it. So I put it off until close to the last possible minute.
I've been doing this with all of my school stuff. I just keep putting it of. I don't mind, except that it's impacting my ability to do other productive things. Write, for example. The weight of my acumulating work hangs around my neck like an albatross and drags me away from doing something useful. I'm finding it difficult to break that mold.
It's not that my school work is boring, either, just that I'm having a really hard time caring if it gets done; like a focused form of ennui. It's a motivation issue; I have no motivation to get this done.
I'd like to be motivated, but there's no scholastic reason to do my work at any time before the last minute; it doesn't hurt me academically. That means that my only motivation for getting my school work done quickly is to get some proper writing done. For a reason that's still obscure to me I'm not finding that to be sufficient motivation.
So: Motivate me! Intrigue me! Get me moving again! Dangle a juicy carrot in front of my donkey-like face! Just don't try to use logic.
Comments (11)
heres a simple tip for procrastinaters.
1.- Write all the stuff you need to do the next day and assign it priorities.
2.- the next day start on your most important stuff to do and repeat the process, only assign a higher priority to things that you didn't finish in the day.
Posted by gus | April 19, 2005 9:00 AM
Posted on April 19, 2005 09:00
That sounds like logic, gus.
Jason, if you don't get your ass in gear, you'll never find the magic sword in time to unseal the great Lunar Archive of Time. And that means the terrorists will have won.
Also, laziness is a symptom of that flesh-eating virus.
Posted by Erik | April 19, 2005 9:08 AM
Posted on April 19, 2005 09:08
I remember an old quote from the flight of dragons.
"why do people prefer logic to magic, well because it's so logic"
but lets see a not logical solution.....mmmmmm....
*takes out the whip* this should get him to work :)
Posted by gus | April 19, 2005 10:09 AM
Posted on April 19, 2005 10:09
If you don't do the thing you're not doing, then you will not get around to not doing the next thing you're supposed to be doing. Do not do one thing, and then do not do another.
Posted by Ben | April 19, 2005 11:53 PM
Posted on April 19, 2005 23:53
Get your homework done and you can have a cookie.
Posted by Eric | April 20, 2005 4:58 AM
Posted on April 20, 2005 04:58
I'd truly like to help you. You write stories for me, you brighten up my morning three days a week. However, I'm about to go lock myself in a library study room for the next seven hours, because my art class portfolio is due at three this afternoon, and four out of the ten projects are not due.
And, most tellingly, even with this catastrophic scholastic event reaching zero hour with terrifying speed--I still checked for a new Fable this morning.
Seek your help elsewhere. I have nothing to offer but negative examples.
Ooh, but you know what you could do? The week before an assignment is due, using a battery of autohypnosis, deep meditation, and blatant self-deception, convince yourself that it is ACTUALLY THE LAST MOMENT. You'll be so productive that you'll hardly notice the psychological trauma.
Posted by Jedoc | April 20, 2005 5:42 AM
Posted on April 20, 2005 05:42
The magic sword?! And a cookie!?
Hot damn!
More seriously, I think I found my motivation today. I'm tired. I'm really damn tired. A most of that was caused by the fucked up sleep schedule I've had over the past few days. The sleep schedule, of course, is pretty much 100% due to my procrastination.
Also, the Fable I posted for today is weak. Which is what comes of writing it tired and not having enough time to revise it properly before posting. That makes me unhappy.
Putting off school work is one thing, but being tired all the time and turning out shoddy writing, well, I won't stand for that crap.
S'cuse me: I've got a nap to take!
Posted by Jason | April 20, 2005 1:40 PM
Posted on April 20, 2005 13:40
Get your homework done ASAP or you can't meet my pet guinea pig, Tuft.
Posted by Marc | April 20, 2005 8:56 PM
Posted on April 20, 2005 20:56
Bless some brainless alien sea creatures. It helps remove albatrosses.
Posted by Bard | April 20, 2005 10:26 PM
Posted on April 20, 2005 22:26
Also, if go to UW, have your own website and procrastinate it is the same as declaring that you want to felate President Dub-ya.
Posted by b | April 25, 2005 9:35 AM
Posted on April 25, 2005 09:35
Whoa. I'd better transfer schools...
Posted by Jason | April 25, 2005 10:53 AM
Posted on April 25, 2005 10:53