Procrastination

Procrastination is something I am really good at. Currently I should be finishing a longarm quilting job (gorgeously colored double wedding ring which is getting an overall rambling rose), working on the star quilt for a client, finishing any one of probably 30 UFO's (unfinished objects), and instead -- I am blogging.

In high school and college, I was always the sleep deprived one because I put things off and then had to pull all-nighters to finish. Fortunately I worked well under pressure.

As a teacher, I discovered that I no longer procrastinated preparation because facing 25 teenagers and not knowing what I was going to do was pure suicide. So I was always well-prepared for every class. Where the procrastination did creep in was in evaluating huge projects. There's nothing more mind numbing than reading ninety term papers. As a retired teacher, that's something I don't miss.

Crazy as it sounds, I do miss teenagers, just not enough to substitute teach. I do miss their enthusiasm for mostly anything not involved in a classic education. But if I could convince them that the Old English epic Beowulf was just like a horror flick, we could communicate. Then it was such fun.

Procrastination time is over! I need to finish a few things!