You have an assignment due tomorrow.
Go to bed, and promise yourself that you’ll wake up early (before the kids) and work on it.
You have an assignment due today. Get dressed, take your kid to school. Carefully, quietly open the door so you don’t wake the little kids. Saunter into the kitchen, drink a cup of coffee, and glance at the headlines.
You have an assignment due in two hours. Start the washer, dryer, and go sit down in front of the computer. Fight off the (now) wide-open kids as you try to work. Set the computer to multi-task, doing the monthly site(s) backup while you’re working. Make a mental note to schedule upgrades as necessary.
You have an assignment due in 30 minutes. Dash across campus to the one spot you KNOW you have access to wireless *and* a printer. Curse your laptop as you realize the files have to be uploaded to the school’s server to print. Curse Micro$haft when you realize that your .odt files can’t be read, so you have to resave-as a doc file to get it to print.
You have an assignment due in 5 minutes. Slam the laptop shut, grab the pages from the printer, hurriedly flipping through to be sure it’s all your work, and dash across campus (uphill) and then climb the 3 flights of stairs to your classroom. Arrive just in time to participate in class discussion, try to discreetly punch holes and organize while said discussion is going on, and do your best to breathe.
*curtsies*
Thank you, thank you, hold the applause and just throw cash!
girl, you and me both. procrastination is the better part of genius.
Ha! You write like I do. Now..how do I stop doing that at work when I have IEPs due in 28 minutes…hmmm.
We’ll have to get someone with a better attitude about it involved, dear. Most of my issue is the paradigm shift that comes with being an adult student and homeschooling parent.