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Tommorrow is Procrastination day..

Not really :-) I suffer badly from procrastination, always have in fact I'd say it's my worst quality (apart from all the killing...but I was young then :-)). The odd thing is that I also suffer from extreme anxiety...and it builds into a vicious cycle as the more worried I am the less likely I am to actually do the thing I'm worried about...and it sucks!
This is also one of the reasons I love coding, it's very a->b in that you have a definite start and end to a task with multiple small tasks in between these two points. Procrastination in coding therefore becomes pretty much irrelevant (hard to procrastinate for a 1 hour task :-)). Take today for example, I have a spec review due on Thursday...now I know what I have to do, I have everything in my head and could easily present that information...but writing it down is another matter entirely. I have always had a mental block for just writing stuff down (getting all Psychological here...not Pop-psych, I was a pro :-) I think it's for a fairly simple reason (side note: my cat has taken to sleeping in the space between my keyboard and monitors...very cute!); if I write something down the someone else can see it and judge it (umm...I also suffer from performance anxiety and impostor syndrome , can you believe I'm still single :-)). Anyway, I am writing this post when I should be writing my specs ... but I just thought I'd give the  very small number of people (stats for the blog are here...) an insight into the crazy bundle of weirdness that is me. Interestingly while I worked as a psychologist, I never met a fellow psychologist who wasn't a complete loon...

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