It's not a distraction unless you've got work to do

[elvenpiratelady]

Somehow I volunteered myself into doing coffees for a Breast Cancer Awareness breakfast at uni tomorrow. Two hours of frantic coffee-making interspersed with pancakes. I'm happy to get more practice and it's for a noble cause, but I'm under no delusions that this is anything but (yet another) method of procrastination.

Things To Procrastinate About

1. Literature review for generic-science subject. I've stopped counting the days it's officially overdue and gone onto how many days I have left to hand it in before they won't accept it. New method of counting current stands at 3.

2. femgenficathon project. This is really quite unforgivable. I didn't start writing it until about a month before the due date, and I can't find the will to fix the thing. My brain sees 5000 words of fic and goes 'no, too hard, move on'. Added to that is that the first draft had a plot and was relatively easy to write, while the reworked version is going to be reflective, and probably a lot shorter. I'm really not sure at all where the reworking will go. I've had this problem with other fics - there's 3000 words about Beruthiel on my hard-drive. I like those 3000 words. I would really like to post those 3000 words, but the fic's not finished and yet where it stops is a logical place to stop, although it's incomplete. It's been that long since I wrote the first 3000 words that I'm wary of finishing it off with a completely different writing style that shows the join between writing so clearly. I wonder if adding extensions to houses is like this. Maybe I have Fic Renovation Anxiety Syndrome.

3. Top Gear/Transformers crossover. I promise I've not forgotten it.



On the other hand, my reading list is coming along nicely:

40. Silverthorn
41. Master and Commander
42. Dawnthief
43. Post Captain
44. Warrior
45. Warlord
46. Mortal Engines
47. The Princess Bride
48. Prospero's Children
49. HMS Surprise

Now I've begin The Mauritius Command, which will take my list to #50 and thus complete 50bookchallenge! Huzzah! (Although there's a Temeraire novel in there somewhere as well, so I may have already completed it. It's getting hard to remember.)

Comments

[dracoena.livejournal.com]

I guess many of the coffees disappeared in mysterious circumstances... :P

Whoa. Being the person that I am, hearing you talk about your deadlines makes me really dizzy, LOL. I am always frantic about finishing everything long ahead of schedule, if it´s possible as soon as I get notice that I have to do it. I don´t think I would be able to live with an overdue paper... so you are my heroine. :P

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

And you are my heroine now. If I could only get that combination of genes... really, though, last-minute work is not a good way to live. But I think I'm stuck in my ways now. D:

[dracoena.livejournal.com]

And I in mine. :P Getting stressed is bad for one´s health, be it before or after the deadline...

[sheiannasherra.livejournal.com]

Procrastinators Unite! Tomorrow... or maybe the next day... *giggle*

The 50bookchallenge sounds interesting though if I counted all the fluff mysteries and such that I read, I'd make 50 in a few months! (I'm a voracious reader of fluff... mental muchies, though I do occasionally like to throw in something with a bit of substance just to make things interesting. ~_^ )

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

My personal 50bookchallenge was to read 50 new books in a year after I realised that I was on a permanent Discworld rotation. (And I adore Discworld, of course, but it was getting to the point where I could quote huge swathes of text from the Watch books and I was just skimming over them.) It's been fun, overall - some of the books I wouldn't read again at gunpoint, but others have been amazing, especially once I strayed out of my fiction-only comfort zone. Give it a try, by all means. (Although probably not this year.)

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Writing of the Top Gear/Transformers crossover has been lately put on the back burner cos of the 'hello, enormous fanwank session' Narnia fic I just cowrote/posted, but flip me an email sometime, dude, and it can be resumed :D

BTW: Princess Bride = ENORMOUS LUMP OF AWESOME!

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

I'll look at it and send it tonight. May I be hung up by my figgin if I fail. :D

I loved The Princess Bride. In fact, I would go so far as to venture that it is better than the film.

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Yay!

And it is certainly more detailed than the film! I think I will join you on that front, in fact. Film = awesome. Book = even MORE awesome!