Reorganizing My Back Pack

I'll try to add to the theme set by the previous post. On top of this break already being longer than most of the winter breaks in the past, we gained two extra days due to extremely cold temperatures and wind chills. I couldn't be more thrilled! But this doesn't help with my procrastination problem one bit. Knowing I have an extra day to do my homework means I don't have to do it today. So when I was faced with a partner in a group project who wanted to work on that project tonight, I got a little frustrated. Why can't we do it tomorrow? Why can't we do it next week? Why can't we do it in February when it is actually due? Of course, it isn't her fault that she has her priorities straight and I'm just plain lazy.

Moving on, I was going through my folder for the class with the group project and I couldn't find my notes sheet, so I decided to organize the folder into a binder with tabs. I thought it would be simple, but I made it much harder than it needed to be. Should I keep all the tests and quizzes separate from everything, or do I mix them in with the notes from the corresponding chapters? Do I do the same with all the articles? Should assignments get their own tab or do assignments go in the front pocket so I see them right away when I open the binder? Tough questions, I'm tellin' ya. When I finished with that binder, I moved on to another one of my unorganized folders. In that class, the teacher hardly hands things back and all my notes and homework assignment are still in my notebooks. Should I have even given that class a binder? Probably not.

I reorganized all of my folders into ways that I hope will be easier to navigate during my classes. I took out all of my pencils and made sure each of them had lead and I checked all the pens and highlighters too. I emptied out the garbage and put in new chapstick and hand lotion. I did a whole bunch of things to my backpack that I could have lived without and I did it all so that I had an excuse to not do my homework. I'm sure I'm going to regret all of this tomorrow night (after I waste all my time during the day) when I have to read extremely long and boring textbook articles while taking detailed notes.

Maybe I'll start now...or maybe I'll go to sleep. Procrastination is exhausting.

-E