- I have this afternoon's presentation on the Tupperware book pretty much planned. I have all my main points charted out, and some quotations, but I'll put some polish on it after my brain's running a little more quickly.
- I addressed a stack of wedding thank you cards (very belated, I know), so that there's a bunch ready to be dropped off in the mailbox this afternoon.
- I sent out a bunch of e-mails, regarding addresses (thank you cards) and thesis stuff (still!). Can you believe that there were some obscure formatting things that I still missed, and that no one pointed out until HS e-mailed me today? She's just changing all the formatting herself, since she has an electronic copy, which is making me feel guilty. (The woman is busy enough.) Maybe I should e-mail her and tell her to give me a list of all the formatting changes, and I can change them and send them back. Would she like that, or would just slow things up for her?
- Most importantly: I finally have a title (and a plan) for the workshop I'm giving on the 3rd! (Grad Secretary here needed a title immediately.) Here it is: "'Where is my shiny Berlin?': The rejection of Weimar Berlin in its contemporary literature." It's still not perfect, but it took me forever to come up with that, especially to find a quotation that was actually from one of my primary sources. (It was way too tempting to go with Goodbye to Berlin, but I'm not even going to be talking about Isherwood in my presentation.) And so, I'm going to present on my final chapter; I think I can make a presentation out of it.
And so it looks like I've been pretty productive, even though I feel like I've had a lazy morning. Okay! Now I should get back to work. Laundry, biscuit baking (we live on biscuits here, because they're so easy) and dish washing are in order. Not to mention the fact that I should do some more organising in this house (it turns out that we can use our storage room in the months when the landlords use the furnace, because it's an oil furnace and having stuff around it is too risky -- this is going to take some creativity).
5 comments:
I revoke your title as Queen of West Procrastination. C'mon! A productivity report? Waking up at 5 ayem? What has Victoria living done to you?
Don't worry Mary, Chris to the rescue.
The very act of writing your blog and making biscuits and doing laundry and writing thankyou cards, etc. is productive, I admit that.
However, procrastination is not sloth, it is merely avoidance...
Hahaha! Cramsey gets it. And then I ended up leaving most of the tasks half-finished! Okay, so I mailed off some more thank you cards, but I only got one load of laundry done (and didn't get a chance to fold it), made the biscuits (but didn't finish the dishes), etc.
But I got my talk about Tupperware figured out, and then it was for naught, because the class ran overtime because we were supposed to talk casually about it for 10 minutes or less (as I planned) and everyone else talked for half an hour or more, reading from typed up notes. And so I quickly recapped in 4 minutes, after the class had already run overtime.
Actually, my real issue lies in missing out on the greatest procrastination of all -- sleeping in when you really shouldn't. No true procrastinator wakes up early in the morning. Have you learned nothing from Mom? Wake up with your husband then go back to bed. You used to be the Queen of "5 more minutes zzzzzzzzzzzz 10 more minutes zzzzzzzzzz 5 more minutes..." Your alarm would go off periodically for more than an hour. I hope you are happy, you have disappointed your fans.
You're still my queen.
With much adoration of his benevolent dictator in Procrasti-Land,
Loyal subject Derek out.
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