Overarching - Procrastination at its finest

Procrastination at its finest

Posted by: lucie | From: August 29, 2007

My dissertation is due in two days. Here is a list of things I have done this week:

Meticulously arranged many material things for flattering, well-lit "buy me" photos

Composed extensive ebay auction pages for my DJ gear

Ditto for a graphic calculator

Posted many items on local Craiglist-type pages

Created a from-scratch HTML page listing books for sale, complete with graphics of said books and links to said books' descriptions on Amazon

Spent many hours browsing Seattle apartments despite the fact that I will not be in the Pacific Northwest until October

Planned a 5-day roadtrip around the North half of the UK to say goodbye to a couple friends and show the boyfriend a few places he may not see again

Watched the ENTIRE FIRST SEASON of Prison Break, a show which is okay, but not really compelling enough to drag me into watching an entire season in a week.

In the past month, before Prison Break, I have also watched ALL THREE SEASONS of Roswell, the show about secret high school aliens, which is also... well, fine and everything, but...

One thing I haven't done very much of is work on my dissertation, which is due on Friday at 4pm. I realize time is running short, but that sense of urgency has yet to kick in. What will it take? 24 hours to the deadline? Morning of the deadline? I have another good 2000 words to write, and then I'm going to have to edit it down to the word limit, print and proofread. Why does my body not grasp this? Where is the adrenaline?

Well... Maybe I'll go write something now. Or there's always Prison Break Season 2. I figure they must end up back in the jail somehow, because as far as I'm aware, they're up to Season 3. If they were all free, that wouldn't make for a very interesting show about a prison break.

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