Cat Haiku #1

I was looking through some old files of mine and found a whole bunch of these...I will post one occasionally for your reading pleasure...author unknown


Cat

Small brave carnivores
Kill pine cones and mosquitoes
Fear vacuum cleaner

8 months of my life...

It's done!! I handed it in this morning, after much editing scramble and fussy words with helpful early-morning-editor. Felt fabulous to have a printed version in my hands; thick, heavy, requiring the serious staples. If anyone feels like reading something heavy and full of stats that they won't understand I'll gladly send you a copy.
I came home today feeling lighter. Relieved would not be a word to describe how I feel today. I simply feel finished with one piece of this part of my life and ready for the next one. I am happy to have accomplished so much in the last 8 months, to have finally found a stride that works for me after all these years. When I got home today the sun beckoned me outside to capture photographic evidence of this years pink snow fall.

Procrastination my friend, you have returned...

I am blogging in order to avoid school. I should be writing my discussion for my year long research project. I should be thinking about the big picture, and how running people through a virtual analogue to rats in a water maze relates to the larger theories of spatial navigation. But instead I am wandering around the Internet, trying to beat my high score in PathWords on Facebook, playing Sudoku, writing knitting blogs, looking at knitting patterns, photographing my knitting.
It seems as though I only do any work under extreme pressure. I have been under pressure all semester. I have spent the last three months doing every single assignment last minute, not because I was procrastinating, but because I simply had no time to do anything until the last minute. It worked out pretty well. A nice selection of A's and comments about flawlessness rewarded all my hard work this semester. But it has eased off, and now I have a deadline for my paper on Wednesday, my discussion is only half written, there is tons of formatting to do, and lots of small nit-picky details to take care of....and I can't seem to do any of it. I worked for a few hours today, did NOTHING yesterday, and will probably do nothing tomorrow (I am spending most of the day tomorrow up-island visiting my Nana).
I know where this is going...my scrambling on Monday and Tuesday to finish it all in time. Spending hours and hours madly working (probably late into the night). Cursing my silliness and lack of foresight into the future. It is not like I don't know what will happen. Recent past experience gives me some clues. Last week I wrote a 4500 word final essay in less than 7 hours of straight writing...after I had be awake for 40 hours and written two final exams. Not really into a repeat of that....
If only I could find that fire to put under my ass I might be able to get something done!!!