Procrastination Station

Life is like a train ride, and thus we have many stations ... The other simile or metaphor could be that life is a book and each part of our life is a chapter. I seem to have one chapter that my bookmark stays on, or one station that my train is constantly stopping at ... the procrastination station. I am an incessant procrastinator. We've all heard the phrase "never put off till tomorrow what you can do today". All I'm hearing in this is 'put off till tomorrow'. Even as I am writing this, I am procrastinating about procrastinating instead of getting on with this post.

My learning journey should be beginning, the HOD of English has sent me (a while ago now) the English handbook to read through, as well as lesson plans for the whole year. While I have looked at these very briefly, I promised myself I would look through them properly as soon as I returned to New Zealand (from my long holiday in Egypt). When I arrived I became rather sick and was propped up in bed for about a week... That was my excuse for not getting to the lesson plans.
Thankfully I'm feeling much better...The lesson plans are still unread. While I can easily look through them on the laptop I convince myself that I need to print them off, get all set, make my vanilla latte, get out my highlighter and get to work.

I am an over-thinker. I like to think that everything should be 'organised' before getting started. This pre-organisation planning hinders my organisation, it only leads to the inevitable - procrastination.
So a good start, I haven't even started work yet and I am already putting things off as much as possible. The worst part is, once I finally get around to reading it - I actually enjoy it and can't be stopped.

I have however loaned the book 'Bridge to Terabithia' from the library, or more correctly my brother got it for me from the library. This is the first book I'm supposed to be teaching, and while I am worried I may not enjoy it I am planning to love it - even if it is a forced romance. I am determined to enjoy the book, that way I can hopefully pass some of this love onto my students. I think if I don't enjoy the book chances are the students will pick up on it and they will also not enjoy it.

I do have one excuse for my procrastination... my laptop has officially crashed and I believe it is in a coma at the moment. We're hoping for the best but I think it will not recover until I take it to someone in Qatar. For now I will hijack my brother's laptop and if that fails I can always work on my phone (if I'm desperate). Good timing, what with having to plan for teaching and starting this blog.