Jan 21 2009
Deadlines
How are you with deadlines? I’m lousy at them. Meeting them more than setting them, really. I can set a deadline like nobody’s business. Projecting authority and control? No problem. But when 5 pm on Wednesday rolls around, I am laying low, pecking at the keyboard or staring at paperwork, reading salon dot com and vvork and all the other time-wasting websites designed to fuel graduate student essays on the 21st century metric of productivity. Will I ever improve? What will I have to lose in order to make me reform myself? I’ve never lost a writing job or failed a class because of this pathology. It just seethes inside me, threatening to destroy my life. How far will I go?
