When it comes to crastinating, I’m a professional. Whoever came up with the adage “never do today what you can put off ’til tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow” must have had me in mind. I’ve always been this way — tests in school, writing deadlines, projects around the house; I wait ’til the last minute on all of them.

And I’m doing it now. I’m teaching my first class tomorrow for my new training job. It’s a Word 2000 Level 1 class, so it should be pretty easy, but the thing is that I haven’t actually trained in a classroom situation for something like two years. I’m so rusty you can see flakes of, um, rustiness falling off me. I really need to prep for this class to make sure I’m comfortable tomorrow. Prepping has been on my mind for the last several days.

So of course rather than prepping, I’m monkeying around with this website. And I’m sending out resumes for a better job. And I’m reading journals. And I’m folding laundry. And I’m writing entries about procrastination. I’m doing everything I can think of to avoid doing something that’s only going to help me. I do the same thing when I want to work on my script: I avoid that which I feel is most important.

I have no idea why I do this. I hate it.