Week 1: Authority

After all of the excitement of the short weekend spent between Summer 1 and Summer 2; getting to see my friends, sleeping in past 7 a.m. and one too many cocktails, I’m back to reality with the challenge of work, actual school work and studying. Hoping things would turn out better than last semester; my motivation peaked the night before class.

I pulled out the chair at my kitchen table and popped a squat. I began making to-do lists, filling my planner with what needs to be done, and even setting alerts on my iPhone to remind me to complete homework. Did it work? Of course not. That is why I consider myself an authority when it comes to procrastination.

For example, I stayed up so late organizing and preparing for the first week of classes that I overslept and arrived to campus two hours too late, missing my first class entirely.

Next example, I knew about this assignment from the syllabus posted online. Immediately, I was bouncing ideas around in my head.

What exactly do I consider myself an authority in... the kitchen perhaps? In my opinion, my culinary skills alone classify myself as an apartment chef.. Or maybe an authority clean freak, I definitely put the quest for cleanliness above other, more trivial ways of spending time.

Then I decided I would wait to hear more on the assignment in class; putting my faith in the phrase “I’ll do it later!” I genuinely thought this was true. Instead, I picked up extra shifts at work for money; binge-watched Gilmore Girls even though I’ve already seen every episode, in every season, twice; and cleaned my apartment as if preparing for a royal guest to entertain.

I’ve run out of reasons (but mostly time, better late than never am I right?) and have finally sat down to write this. Four days past the due date and probably multiple points deducted from my grade; I realize now that this assignment was pretty easy. Procrastination at its finest, amirite?