this post is pure procrastination
kelly | 20 February 2007 - 10:09pm
I'm taking a class this semester for my teaching recertification - I never intend to return to the classroom, but having a feasible fallback plan is essential to my peace of mind. Once renewed, my teaching certificate will be good for another five years and I figure in that amount of time surely I'll have figured out what I want to do with my life. Um, right.
Anyway, we are supposed to keep a reflective journal each week, which we turn in midway through the semester, and again at the end. Midway through the semester is this Thursday. We should have six journals to hand in this Thursday.
I have....none. So far. Well, I sorta started one a few minutes ago, right before switching over to this post. Priorities, people.
The thing is, with most school stuff I'm not a procrastinator. In college I studied days in advance of a test. And I would start a paper two weeks before the due date, writing multiple rough drafts and editing like only an OCD perfectionist can, and then giving myself several days to step away from it before returning to tweak the final draft.
But with reflective journals (which are quite popular in education programs), I have always waited until the last minute. Because they seem so easy. I mean, an assignment to critically analyze a work of literature is intimidating; it requires time to be properly polished. But a reflective journal? Pfft, I think. It's a journal. One in which I reflect. Page here, page there. Piece of cake.
Except when you wait until the last minute to write your six reflective journals, suddenly you have 6-12 pages of content to create. On multiple topics. Topics you can't even freaking remember because those classes were weeks ago.
Still, how bad can it be? I mean, you're a smart person. You have thoughts. You reflect. And you write well, so 6-12 pages shouldn't take more than....what? Two hours, maybe? And this is only Tuesday night, after all. Thursday is, like, so far away. There is plenty of time to read blogs and catch up on email and watch tv. Tomorrow evening you can write the journals. Right after you pick up the car from the mechanic and bake scones for the bread share and call your best friend. Seriously, the time? You are luxuriating in it.
Well then. I think maybe I'll turn in early tonight.
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do you think the profs. think it's as silly as we do. i mean, they have to read that stuff and it's mostly just fluff and really has no affect on the way we teach, or taught, or whatever. you can totally pull in out in like 5 minutes.
just so you know, when i read just the title of this post, "this post is pure procrastination," before reading the actual post itself, i panicked. i panicked because i was sure that the post was about something not procrastinational (it should be a word) at all, and that the post was a procrastination itself from actually telling us all some bad news. about yourself. i won't read into the title. nope...not a worrier. (who? ME?! whatev.)
i did NOT read anna's typo "pull in out in" in a dirty way AT.ALL. i didn't! you cannot prove that i did. i'll deny it.
Yeah...I didn't read that in a dirty way either. Nope.
Procrastination is already my middle name and when I go back to school for something when my kids are a bit older I know blogs are going to be a hard temptation to resist.
DUDE!!! You have your reflective journal right here. YER BLOG! Just pick a few posts that reflected your week and print them off. The one about shovelling the ice with hubby was especially nice. They will lap it up.
I volunteer to write one of them. I am sure RZ and Nilbo will volunteer to write two more.
Give me the topic and I will have it to you by thursday Morning.
I was just thinking what Von Krank. was thinking - except then I realized you have to write it about certain topics, right. That is too bad.
Well, good luck with it. (unspoken are the words - You're going to need it...)
Just kidding. ;-)
You'll be fine.
Oh, William. Do you not know Nilbo at ALL? Kelly would be crazy to leave something worth marks up to him . He is the reigning World Champion of the Procrastination Olympics. Nilbo can procrastinate circles around anyone (which is harder than you'd think because the circles themselves...well, he could always get to that tomorrow).
Allison, I'm gonna kick your ass. You know, when I get around to it.
Here you go, Nilbo. :P
just give each of us a topic - see? done!
I've never had another kid do my homework. I should seriously start now. William, what will I have to pay you? Whfropera, do you accept cat toys?
Okay, one of the topics I have to write on is "Engaging Learning Environments" - but I think maybe I should give that topic to Nilbo. His teaching methods seem to be, um, engaging. Interactive, even. At least they are if you stay after class.
And the other topics I can't remember. So there's that. I'll get back to you. Or, you know, I could just write them my own damn self instead of sitting here replying to comments.
Oh honey. If you need ANY tips or ideas for things to do instead of the journals, email me. I am SO GOOD at procrastinating I should get a commendation.
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