As I write this, the clock is ticking perilously close to midnight, and Tuesday, taking me past my personal deadline of Monday - to get my Sunday blog post up.
Anyone who has a tumblr and 24/7 access to WiFi knows the dangers of procrastination, and how time just seems to slip away when you are avoiding some unpleasant task. The past few months this has become an even bigger problem for me, although I'm not totally sure why.
I can blame it on the weather, my course-load, my anxiety about grades, or simply that the novelty of university is wearing off, but lately I have found it pretty much impossible to start any project or task (including posts on this blog) before the last possible second. The frustrating bit is that somehow, I almost always manage to get the thing done in time. I'm not sure if I have some strange sixth sense that knows just how long something will take to complete, or if I just sacrifice quality in order to get it done before the deadline.
Either way, despite the fact that I haven't missed the deadline on anything major, I'm starting to get frustrated with myself. The cycle of un-productiveness followed by a brief flash of very high stress is not something I can sustain for very long, and it's getting close to the end of an entire school year of this crap.
I'm sure I'll never be completely cured of this, but recently (as in, like, today) I've been getting better. And although it's a total cliché, getting things done and being productive really does feel better than endlessly scrolling down your dashboard. It's a feeling akin to the endorphins you get after a really good run (Or so I assume. I'm not really the running-not-to-catch-a-bus kind of person).
So I know this post was late, unpolished, and not really about anything in particular, but I just wanted to share with you that I felt pretty productive tonight (yes, despite the fact that my Sunday post won't be up til Tuesday) and it made me happy.
That's all.
Goodnight, bloglings
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