Greetings from the magical land of procrastination, where being productive can always be banished to the far realm of "later".
There's nothing quite like a deadline to bring out the procrastinator in me. Right now, I've got an environmental report writeup due to my PI (due yesterday, actually, but that's fine...), lab prep, insect collections to start, a study group that I'm so not prepared for that's starting in half an hour, and, oh yeah, the first exam in the grad core series tomorrow that I haven't even started properly studying for. I should be finishing my edits of my report, or working through the midterm study guide. But what am I actually doing? Writing a blog while eating oatmeal (the oatmeal is not a pertinent fact in this instance, but it is evocative of it currently being breakfast time).
As deadlines approach, I feel myself getting increasingly scatterbrained. I can't seem to concentrate on one topic at a time, jumping from topic to topic, and overall productivity really does suffer. Maybe I'm just out of practice (I used to do this sort of thing all the time when I was in school before!). Maybe I don't sleep as much as I should (obviously). Maybe I'm drinking too much coffee. Wait, never mind on that last one.
I'll consider this short snippet of a blog post my momentary tryst into Procrastinationland for this morning. Maybe now that the oatmeal is gone, I can concentrate more on this study guide.
In the meantime, can I convince anyone to take a molecular genomics exam for me tomorrow?
Anybody?
Hello...?
