Procrastination
It's funny how the longer I leave between posting here the harder it is to try and think of something to write. I've left it a while, can hardly believe it's almost a month into 2007 already. The traditional thing to do at the start of a new year is to look back and reflect on what went on last year but at the moment it seems like it is always a time for reflection; new year, new school year, graduation, leaving Hong Kong, finishing CIO, new placement school etcetc. It is great to look back on the year... on what happened... but I don't want to only be looking back, there is a future too.
Talking of the future, right now I should be filling in application forms for next year but I've done all the easy fill in the box type questions and it's just the big long essay type thing where you have to sum up your whole attitude to teaching and life generally. Trying to sell yourself in words on a page is hard. I'm not sure that I should find it this hard... I thought english grads were supposed to find it easier... but I do. So I have a mental block about what to write... so here I am... procrastinating. When you find yourself procrastinating with something you've been procrastinating from (eg. doing this) it really must be serious!!!!!! I am just realising what a great procrastinator I am ... the other day I found myself reading all the recycling info that makes cambridge rubbish collection so complicated. I finally worked out what to do with all the cardboard but I was supposed to be writing my essay. Seems procrastination is a habit I haven't grown out of yet. Though I have to admit I've noticed myself seeming more grown up recently, maybe it's the whole teaching thing... I don't know. Not that I'm completely sensible now ... I still get up to mad things like winter beach picnics, sitting on top of the car at the drive through movies, posing for fake graduation photos with a bible on my head....
Right, I guess I should get back to my 'employ me' essay else I'll not get a job for next year, actually I guess that would be this year technically aaaaaaaaahhhhhh.
It seems a bit late but Happy New Year to all you people I haven't said it to yet.
Right off I go, see, I really can be sensible sometimes!!!!!
Talking of the future, right now I should be filling in application forms for next year but I've done all the easy fill in the box type questions and it's just the big long essay type thing where you have to sum up your whole attitude to teaching and life generally. Trying to sell yourself in words on a page is hard. I'm not sure that I should find it this hard... I thought english grads were supposed to find it easier... but I do. So I have a mental block about what to write... so here I am... procrastinating. When you find yourself procrastinating with something you've been procrastinating from (eg. doing this) it really must be serious!!!!!! I am just realising what a great procrastinator I am ... the other day I found myself reading all the recycling info that makes cambridge rubbish collection so complicated. I finally worked out what to do with all the cardboard but I was supposed to be writing my essay. Seems procrastination is a habit I haven't grown out of yet. Though I have to admit I've noticed myself seeming more grown up recently, maybe it's the whole teaching thing... I don't know. Not that I'm completely sensible now ... I still get up to mad things like winter beach picnics, sitting on top of the car at the drive through movies, posing for fake graduation photos with a bible on my head....
Right, I guess I should get back to my 'employ me' essay else I'll not get a job for next year, actually I guess that would be this year technically aaaaaaaaahhhhhh.
It seems a bit late but Happy New Year to all you people I haven't said it to yet.
Right off I go, see, I really can be sensible sometimes!!!!!
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