On procrastination
Apr. 20th, 2011 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakhttp://fuckyeahfanficflamingo.tumblr.com/post/4579550702/amount-of-fic-written
Replace 'fic' with '12,000 word essay I am supposed to be writing', and that is me. Except now I have all the laundry done... and am still not writing.
This calls for caffeine and discipline. And possibly Jim Hines' muse. http://www.jimchines.com/2011/04/comic-amusement/
Why, again, am I trying to do college with minimal attention span, minimal ability to keep my nose to the grindstone, and two special needs kids who are not in school full time yet?
Oh yeah. To eventually re-enter the workforce as something better than a minimum wage slave doing work that kills my soul slowly.
So.... why is this not kicking my ass into gear with more efficacy? ::thwaps self::
EDIT FOR TOTAL BRAIN FAILURE THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO WEEKS AND THUS CANNOT BE BLAMED ON TONIGHT'S SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND CAFFEINE ABUSE: 1,200 words DOES NOT EQUAL 12,000 words. I only have to write the former. Not the latter. THANK GOD, KAMA-SAMA, AND WHICHEVER TRICKSTER SPIRITS ARE USING ME AS A CHEWTOY LATELY.
Still moderately fucked, as I've only got a few hundred words and a wobbly non-thesis. But infinitely better than 12 hundred words would have been.
Replace 'fic' with '12,000 word essay I am supposed to be writing', and that is me. Except now I have all the laundry done... and am still not writing.
This calls for caffeine and discipline. And possibly Jim Hines' muse. http://www.jimchines.com/2011/04/comic-amusement/
Why, again, am I trying to do college with minimal attention span, minimal ability to keep my nose to the grindstone, and two special needs kids who are not in school full time yet?
Oh yeah. To eventually re-enter the workforce as something better than a minimum wage slave doing work that kills my soul slowly.
So.... why is this not kicking my ass into gear with more efficacy? ::thwaps self::
EDIT FOR TOTAL BRAIN FAILURE THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO WEEKS AND THUS CANNOT BE BLAMED ON TONIGHT'S SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND CAFFEINE ABUSE: 1,200 words DOES NOT EQUAL 12,000 words. I only have to write the former. Not the latter. THANK GOD, KAMA-SAMA, AND WHICHEVER TRICKSTER SPIRITS ARE USING ME AS A CHEWTOY LATELY.
Still moderately fucked, as I've only got a few hundred words and a wobbly non-thesis. But infinitely better than 12 hundred words would have been.
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Date: 2011-04-26 07:24 am (UTC)