The art of Basket Weaving
In roughly 12 hours, I have a term paper due for my Ethnographic Art (HUM440) class, and it’s on Basket Weaving. We’ve had nine weeks to work on it, and I’ve yet to finish it. I’ve tried, really.I should clarify that by trying, I’ve spent a lot of time intending to get started. I can say that I’ve gotten started. And what did I do to prepare? I opened OpenOffice, prepared my margins, type and everything else required for MLA (and yes, I had to Google that definition). I also prepared images that I can — and will &mdash use. As I’m without a scanner, I took a few shots, then popped them open in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I cleaned them up, cropped them, color corrected and exported for filesize. I’ve got all the pieces in a folder labeled ‘ethnographicArt_termPaper’. I’m so ready…Today, I got a great amount of other work done, I got some reading done and I even considered washing the dishes (Kara would have been happy if I’d actually done them).Procrastination is really an art and I’d hate to say I excel at it. The truth is, if I were any good at it, I’m getting worse. I am now dreadfully aware that I will not get this paper done (whether or not I continue writing this post). I’ve been putting so much focus on other projects that I actually forgot about this paper entirely. And, procrastination is not only having the strength to put off work, but also the ability to know when you absolutely, must start in order to finish just in time.Of course, maybe it’s not that I’m just procrastinating, maybe I have too much to do right now? Nah.There is the conciliation, however, that I can turn this paper in late, and that makes all the difference in the world.