Thursday, January 29, 2009

Deadlines

I'll just come right out and say that I'm not very good at deadlines (I didn't have to put quotes around that because it wasn't a direct quote). I mean, I appreciate them. They're just there to help me plan out. The problem is, I'm a procrastinator (hey, that could be a cool movie in which the robot from the future puts off killing people until the last second......well, I'd watch it). Really, I put everything off until the last minute and then cram. Deadlines just mess up my life.
Sometimes I have to give myself my own mental deadline to get myself to do anything. Take last week, (really, go ahead and take it. I had no fun with it whatsoever. It's yours.) I was supposed to do a newspaper article and I knew that if I put it off it would be done terribly. I had to force myself to think that it was due the coming Friday instead of the following one. I'm not sure if I believed myself or not, but the article got done (I love happy endings).
Well, I gotta make like a hair on a sharp knife and split.

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