Procrastination is an Art

I have been slowly trying to grow up. AKA stop procrastinating.

I used to be SO bad. So so so bad about procrastinating.

I, like I'm sure many others like me, would wait to write a long paper, start and finish a project, complete your diorama* until the night before something was due in school.

So many nights I would spend an hour reading some book in bed, then reach over and turn out the light, snuggling into my soft pillows, close my eyes with a smile, happy as a clam.

Ah...sweet sweet slumber....


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Then it came.

First came the quickened heart rate....

followed by the panic and adrenaline coursing through my veins!

OH SHIT!

FUCK'n EH!

That paper! (project, whatever!) When was that due!?!??!

I would ungracefully leap out of bed, usually causing some sort of terrible harm to a toe, or possibly my face (especially if tangled bedding was involved).

I would slam my fist into the light switch all while unzipping my book bag frantically.

Tearing through pages and notebooks and binders and sticky-notes.

AH HA! FOUND!

I can't even see straight I'm so horrified at what I might find!!!

Katy....focus...calm down I say, it doesn't help.

I breath, I focus, I find what I was looking for.

Just as I feared, of course I already knew what was there. Some huge, unmanageable project/book report/presentation/etc, due the very next day.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

So anyway, the next several hours are a blur of tired eyes and furious writing/constructing/singing whatever.

And I finished it, normally at some ungodly hour, then passed out for my 1-2.5 hours of sleep I could squeeze in before my alarm clock went off.

As you know, I'm back in school to finish my last class, all my super anxiety causing procrastination techniques are back in full force!

I called my prof two weeks ago and said "hey! When should I turn my paper in!?" He goes..."like two weeks, does that work?" and then I'm all like "ya! sweet! see ya then!"

Fast forward to today, T- 1 or 2 days until paper due date. I have about 7 out of my required 15-20 pages done.

And.....technically I stole about 3 pages from my previous 20 page paper I wrote on a similar subject about 4 years ago.

Though I totally just Googled that shit and found out it is called self-plagiarism....

um....go fuck yourself.....?

I'm still using it, I'll just site myself. But then am I really considered a "scholarly source"...? I'm guessing...no. WTF that is probably one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Academics are stupid. They just want you to have the worst most difficult possible time trying to get the fuck out of school.

I'm pretty sure the whole point of this post was about my procrastinating. I've been doing a good job at keeping myself busy writing this, when I obviously should be focusing on the remaining 7+ pages I need to write.

This is what I have so far:

Page 1: Title Page

Page 2: Abstract

Page 3-4: brief history of things

Page 5-7: Self-Plagiarism of Social Theory from my last paper (that I did not plagiarize in any way)

Page 8-14: Nothing

Page 15: Self-Plagiarism of a conclusion from my last paper (that I did not plagiarize in any way)

Page 16: Nothing and some MORE plagiarism, apparently









 
 *diorama - a box type thing that you stick mini things into to make it look like a mini version of a big thing.

example:

(Oh, and just so you know I'm not plagiarizing, I did steal this off the internet, there were a lot better ones, but this one stood out to me as extra artistic.)

BTW - Now I'm kinda paranoid about posting pictures of people's random shit I find. Am I going to get in trouble!? Maybe I should draw my own....? Eh that would take sooooo long though....I guess I'll risk it, or if it is really good I can site it...or maybe I should just put a disclaimer on the top of the site that says "I DO NO ART!" Eh....but then what about my pictures I take....hmmmm...way too complicated. 

I should really get back to work on my paper, or you know, do actual work.