Procrastination Masterclass

The concept was simple enough: three essays in three days. I'm reasonably smart, I am an extremely quick reader, I have all the journal articles and books I need to write the essays. Three essays in three days? Piss easy mate.

I then started laughing in the face of time. I openly mocked it's stupid, perfectly round, clock face.

'Ha' I said. To it's face.

But then time turned around, raised one of it's time-eyebrows and said...

'I think you might be forgetting something Ms Mulholland'

'What's that?' I smirked

'You have the attention span of a ritalin addicted three year old. You might have more than enough time to do these essays but no way will you stay focused enough to complete them'

'Oh yeah? I'll show you time. I will show you good'

So here we are. The deadline I set myself is 5 o' clock on Friday. Right now it is 1am. I have 16 hours left.

Guess how many essays I have completed since the start of this ridiculous adventure?

None.

And do you know why?

Because I have the attention span of a ritalin addicted three year old.

Amongst other things, I've watched three episodes of How I Met Your Mother (Doogie Howser MD is my hero on it), two episodes of Dexter, one episode of the Gilmore Girls. I have renamed all my downloads so they adhere to the same naming system and therefore look much neater when you open the folders. I have spent time daydreaming. I listened to music. I had a nap or two. I wrote a blog.

You will be surprised to learn that none of these things are helping with the essay writing.