Karma chameleon

Last week I paid for all the procrastination, all the dilly-dallying, and all the hesitation that I did instead of doing my work. At the start of this month I had two self-imposed deadlines that I set in order to be free from these commitments so I can move on to my next project(s). One deadline was Monday, June 4. The other was Tuesday, June 5. I had decided to spend the weekend working my ass of so that by Monday morning I can meet deadline #1 then still have the rest of the day for deadline #2.

But what did I do? Instead of doing what I intended (working my ass off), I dawdled around the house and around the web (please refer to my previous post). So come Sunday evening, I had accomplished nothing!

Thankfully deadline #2 had been moved a day later, but deadline #1 was more problematic. I've been working on this for too long that I just wanted to be free of it already. So I had to give notice that instead of Monday, I'd be submitting my commitment on Friday, June 8.

This is how the proverbial cookie crumbled: on Monday I worked on deadline #1. On Tuesday through early Wednesday I finished deadline #2. I started work on Tuesday, 8AM, worked non-stop until Wednesday, 4AM. After emailing my submission, I slept for 4 hours then got back to working on deadline #1 again. I had to stop by 5PM because I saw old friends from the Philippines and Indonesia who were here for a conference. Kimrun and I took them out to dinner because they'd gotten tired of hotel food. On Wednesday I was only able to work in the morning because I had promised to take them shopping in the afternoon. This time Kaloy went with me. The afternoon shopping stretched to dinner so I managed to get home by 10PM. I was dead-tired and Kaloy knew it so upon his advice I slept right away and woke up at 6AM on Thursday, got back to work at 7AM and did not stop until Friday at 12 noon. I made my submission at 3PM, as I promised.

At around 4.30PM I finally succumbed to sleep deprivation and slept through Friday night and the rest of Saturday. On Sunday I saw 4 new pimples on my forehead and a new depth in my eye bags.