Breakdown: Friday, April 30th, 2010

Truly Useful Accomplishments:

• None. :(

Truly Frivolous Accomplishments:

• Earned some achievements in Left 4 Dead 2 (PC).
• Set up some new spray images to use in LFD/LFD2/TFC.

Excuse(s) for not getting more done:

• It's Friday. It's so very hard to be productive on a Friday.

Breakdown: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Truly Useful Accomplishments:

• Finally got completed Override form to Registrar & was placed into the closed class I needed for next semester.

Tasks partially completed:

• Left message with dentist's receptionist, starting process of resolving appointment conflict.

My excuse(s) for not accomplishing more:

• Got an opportunity to hang out with CKJ and others (which doesn't happen often enough, in my opinion), and took said opportunity. Was out until after midnight.
  

Breakdown: Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Truly Useful Accomplishments:

• Completed an important overdue assignment for a class during 'wee hours' of morning.
• Called back dentist's receptionist and successfully moved appointment to a time and day that would no longer conflict with a class.

My excuse(s) for not accomplishing more:

• Staying up late (to do the homework assignment) left me with 4 hours of sleep, so I was tired.
• Had classes from 12:30 PM until 8:30 PM.
• Had scheduled roleplaying session on IRC from 9:00 PM onward. ["Tales from Fairview"]
• I only have one class tomorrow, which I've already done the required reading for, so my Procrastination insists "You've got all weekend for that other stuff!"
  

Statement of purpose.

This is my daily struggle:

When I have something I need to accomplish...

• Being naturally lazy, my first impulse is to "do nothing." Once I've jumped that hurdle (not too difficult, usually)...
• As a procrastinator, my next natural impulse is to "do it later." (After so many years, I've apparently become adept at fooling myself into believing I have "plenty of time to do it" - up until it's too late.) While I'm still struggling with that, being forgetful and distracted* causes me to sometimes become engrossed in other matters and genuinely forget about the first thing I had to do for a while. (Combined with the procrastination, they are my greatest obstacle.) When/if I've finally remembered to do it and also wrestled the bear that is my procrastination...
• My perfectionist tendency makes my next impulse be to "freak out," since by then there's usually not enough time to "do it properly" before the deadline. (This is often the final nail in the coffin of many of my endeavors, and why I almost never leave something 'partially finished;' things tend to be either Complete or Nonexistent.)

Due to all of this nonsense, I usually have a "ToDo List"** that grows faster than I can deal with, and it sometimes breaks my spirit when I consider just how much is left to do. I decided that perhaps I should make a little blog to list things I actually have accomplished each day, so I can look over it and feel a bit better.

On the flip side, I decided I should also list my excuses for why I didn't get more (or anything) done in a particular day, so I can see how ridiculous the rationalizations my screwed-up mind comes up with truly are.

* It could very well be undiagnosed ADHD or something.

** In quotations because I usually don't have an actual list of all the things I have yet to do.