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[elly427]

What the heck's wrong with me?

I have a presentation in *checks watch* less than four hours and I keep checking lj, and I'm all aha haha, and then I look down to my presentation notes and I'm like "Crap!" and I panic and work for five minutes, and then I think, "hmma, I wonder if there's anything new on cbc.ca, oh I'll just check really quickly .. . " fifteen minutes later, and begin at the top of the paragraph.

There's procrastination and then there's stupidity. Damn it. I have settled and built myself a nice little bungalow in procrastinationville and it is wreaking havoc with my mental health. Argh.

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[nandamai]

One of my friends from grad school -- who actually did finish her PhD unlike me, and has taught at Harvard among other places -- insists that the point of the entire enterprise (that is, higher ed) is to learn to do fantabulous work in a very short period of time (that is, after putting it off to the last possible second). Because then, well, you can do fantabulous work in the time it takes other people to spell check their not-so-fantabulous work.

So it's all for a greater purpose! Really!

[elly427.livejournal.com]

grumblegrumblegrumble stupid greater purpose grumblegrumblegruble.

I've heard this too. I still don't like it.

And speaking of spell checking, that would have been a good idea. Whoops (nothing like a handout going to a class of 30 honours students with a spelling mistake. Oy.)

But, y'know, I'll keep the greater purpose thing in mind . . . :)