"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Procrastination

~Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
~Robert Benchley

My homework list is fairly short this week, yet there is so much reading! I think it's a little sad that I know it takes approximately six minutes to read one page in my Norton Anthology. This means that when I look at my homework list and have to read thirty pages for one assignment I know it will take about three hours. And that, is depressing.

And I have about three more long reading assignments this week.

I need to start that British paper. It is, in fact, only a two page paper. But the instructions are just not clear! I have no clue what she wants. And any student understands that with less than 48 hours left before we have to turn it in, it's not the best message to send your teacher an email asking what the heck you're supposed to be doing.

So, I've started working on Friday's homework, and even some of Mondays. I have this theory. Well, it's not really a theory, but it sounds more sophisticated that way. I've said it on here before. Some days there's one assignment I really don't want to do. And that is the next thing I really need to work on. So, I avoid it. And get nothing done at all.

I've discovered that it's better to just keep busy. I may just do anything except that assignment but at least I'm getting something done. And I'm hardly one to not do my work on time. So then I end up getting it done-even if not my best work-and ending up ahead. I still feel productive while I'm procrastinating!

Now that I'm caught up blogging I think I'll go read some of Friday's or Monday's homework or work on memorizing the first 18 lines of "The Canterbury Tales" or pick a lyric poem to memorize or write in my journal or start my Elang homework... and maybe I'll get around to that very confusing, sure to be a failure paper.
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