Today, I swear, I'm not doing anything. Nothing at all.
I have this crippling chronic disease. It's not fatal, but it's serious. Thus far? Completely incurable, but there are temporary treatments that help it. It's called Laziness, and my goodness, do I have it bad. It prevents me from doing anything even remotely productive that could be classified as work.
Well, maybe that's not true. It's not so much laziness as it is a terrible case of procrastinitias. See, I get into these bouts where I'll find anything to do but the work that needs to be done. Even if the only thing I can find left to do is scrubbing the kitchen floor on my hands and knees with a tooth brush. I'm that bad.
The worst part is-- I can see it coming on. I know when it's about to happen. And instead of fighting it, I just let it win.
See, anytime I take on a project, I am usually very excited about and ready to give it my all. I plan (though this plan is rarely ever used) the steps of the project and even when to get them done by, so none of it's last minute. Until it comes time to start the project...and I realize I have no clue where to even begin.
For example,
Amerispan- the program I'm using to go to Korea, in case any of you have forgotten- has a wonderful program going on right now called 'Educate the Press'. By writing to papers, magazines, and websites, they'll give you discount coupons to their programs, or cash, with
no limit. So you could, theoretically, pay for your entire trip by writing articles.
Of course I jumped right onto this bandwagon. Saving any money/earning any money helps greatly. Besides- if everything goes as we're all planning, there's another summer trip to think about as well. So, I took it up.
The first one was easy. I had a friend with the paper who gave me an 'in'. So I wrote the article, he promised to get it published, and yeah! Making money already!
So I quickly pulled up the website to the next paper...and realized I had no idea where to start.
Was I supposed to write a letter to the editor?...no that was for opinions on things and stuff, wasn't it? But I couldn't just go "Here's my article for the travel section. Publish it, kaythanks.' What did my friend do for me? Was it a connection I could copy for future papers? Or was it just some inside string I had?
...I didn't know. ...So I clicked away from the website and went to my email instead. After reading my email and responding, I went back. ...I stared at the website blankly for a few more minutes, feeling the stress bubble up in the pit of my stomach--and promptly decided this could be saved for tomorrow. I closed the website and went to go find my book.
This habit continued on for a good two weeks, leaving me with significantly less time to write. Now what?
See, I do this to myself all the time. That first part is so hard for me to figure out, I kind of avoid it. Now, the project always gets done. On time and to my standard of work (which is fairly high, in my opinion.) but I always end up pulling overnighters, drinking gallons of coffee, and usually, by the end of the project, one can find me rocking in the corner two seconds from pulling my hair out.
Really, it'd be nice to kick this habit of mine, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about it yet. Good thing I'm pretty good under pressure. Eventually, any websites that take to my articles will be given a post in the coming days so anyone interested can check it out.
Finishing on that note and quickly touching on another;
Save Me, Seoul got an update! Now I can finally claim the blog to be mine. I realize that on some browsers the template and the banner are a little wonky, but it works and looks good on mine, so for now I will be leaving it. I may fix it in the future, I may not. Special thanks to
Paw Prints & Tea Leaves for the help with the blog makeover.
And now I part with you to go muddle my way through another article! Wish me luck!
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