the art of procrastination

In my lifetime, I've known my fair share of professional procrastinators. People who can put off the smallest task until the very last minute, type up a 40-page paper in just one night or juggle ten deadlines at once without sweating a drop. I've never been a very good procrastinator because I break the cardinal rule of procrastination: thou shalt never stress out over what you've put off 'til tomorrow, because tomorrow's not today. See, I'm great at dilly-dallying and occupying myself with various other things if I want to avoid a task. Currently, I am working through an aversion to my Note. I don't even like to open the document on my computer, much less figure out how to make it a coherent work of legal scholarship. But as I avoid this task at the top of my to-do list, I am still concerned. Concerned that I won't finish. Concerned that my editor will think I'm a brainless fool who should never have made Law Review. Concerned that the longer I procrastinate, the more stressed out I will become.

I'm going to try to do better as I prepare for finals. Not necessarily at being on top of things because that's no fun. But to adopt a que sera sera methodology. That's the true art of procrastination.

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