Procrastination

Here I am in the library again. I've only been here for an hour and already I'm going utterly spare! I come here in the mornings with all the good intentions of working, but end up getting distracted by just about anything! Arg! The only time I actually work efficiently is when I get up at 5am and just start to work rather than faff, but I can't do that often because it's exhasting and I crash by 3pm, and even then I can only do it when really under pressure to finish something. Even with only 4.5 weeks to complete my dissertation I'm sitting here putting off working and just building up stress for later on. I know I have plenty of time to finish and edit this bastard, but I just can't bring myself to do the necessary work before the very last minute. It's not that I'm terribly lazy, but there seems no point in working too hard until there's no choice, and I tend to find that I work best under high pressure. Lots of my last-minute essays have recieved much better marks than those I spent a lot of time working on *shrugs*, It doesn't seem fair, somehow, that my last-minute work ends up getting better marks than projects that I've put a lot of time and effort into! Perhaps it's because it flows better as a continuious stream of thought rather than as a series of segments.

Ok, will try and do some work now. No doubt I'll post again in the next few hours...

Later:
As predicted, here I am again.

Found this on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
So, this is the generation to which I belong; and sadly, yes, I really do belong to a generation which defines itself by ownership of technological goods and use thereof. Right now I am using three of the defining goods of this generation: laptop, MP3 player and mobile phone (clearly not all at once - I can multitask, but I only have two hands!), and writing it on my blog - Gee, could I be anymore steriotypical?! Plus I really can't see myself working for one firm/organisation for my whole life, so will probably move around quite a lot because there's no real pressure to stay in one place and it's almost looked down upon now to want to stay with one group for the rest of your life. We are given these expectations of new experiances, and once the novelty of a new job and responsabilities wear off and everything starts to become rountine, it can be very tempting to want to move on. Looking at my employment history I have had, since I was 15, 10 differant jobs! Admittedly, this isn't because I got bored or anything, it's down mostly to moving around and Uni and some of the jobs being temporary contracts. But still, 10 jobs by the age of 22 is kinda strange!