Well itâ??s as close to zero hour as we can get and finally I am crossing things off my horrible ToDo list. My excuse for pushing things in front of me last term was The Thesis (a pretty decent excuse). This term all my chickens have come home to roost. Too much, the list is too long. I shall drown in the pit of desperation (a.k.a. teaching) next term.
And I have not prepared enough.
Since the Swedes are a bunch of pessimistic Lutherans â?? which means no matter how good you are, you are going to hell anyway. Anyway, these morose flock have a saying: Late shall the sinner awake.
Well let me admit it. I am awake! My procrastination has reached the end of its tether. Nothing left to do now except work.
Or maybe procrastinate some more. LP sent me an excellent link to Tasty Research on the effectiveness of self-imposed deadlines on procrastination which cites Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002 PDF) on the reason why people procrastinate:
Why do people procrastinate? This is an effect psychologists attribute to â??hyperbolic time discountingâ??: the immediate rewards are disproportionally more compelling than the greater delayed costs. In other words, Procrastination itself is the reward
Isnâ??t doing research on procrastination an oxymoron? Should I look it up or just blog about it?