STudy BReAK @... NOW!

I have the end of my degree fast approaching and the drive to actually engage brain and begin the slow process of osmosing the information into my skull seems to be waning about as fast as Hammy on Red Bull! Oddly, my mind is so pre-occupied with the thoughts of plans and schemes to not work that if I used this energy to study, I’d probably be done by now. SIDETRACK: Yes, everything possible has been done to delay the onset of the study bug. A list of some of these would be a good idea!


• Convincing myself that my collection of “How I met Your Mother” needs to be rewatched because you never catch everything the first time you know.
• I really have been meaning to clean the windows in the house, they really are looking grubby, I’ll start learning after that.
• I tell you, every time I walk into this bedroom, see clothes lying around. I had better pick them up before they get walked on…and while I am here, the closet is pretty messy, I think that could do with a tidy.
• Paint, yes I must paint. Who could I paint for, yes a picture of a camel for my mate in Dubai. But how would I get it to him?

Maybe I should get up now… no, five more minutes.
And this is how my mornings have started for the last two weeks - with the intent to study, but then a barrage of reasons to postpone the start gun. It’s no wonder I am exhausted before I even get to think about my coffee, I have done the strategic planning of a small African country before even lifting my head from the pillow. And all of this just to decide to do nothing!

Who are those people who are able to get up at four am and then study for three hours before breakfast and then still face a day at work before coming home for an hour or two on the book before bed?!? Hello, R2D2 and C3PO are missing their cyborg, ol’-buddy-ol’-pal. I am a firm believer of last minute pressure. It has worked for me in the past…to some degree. I need that pressure to thrive. If there is no pressure – I tend to make it for myself, it’s quite easy really. If there are three weeks to do something, why work for three weeks??? Smash it in the last two days. 48 hours solid and a tanker of Super-Java for fuel!. The pressure will produce!

Somehow now the pressure seems to have built enough. And it’s just occurred to me that this degree has been building here over the past four years. Four years worth of pressure into three weeks of exams. Damn…that is enough pressure to make my eyes pop!

People - learn, study, swat! Just get it in your head. The windows will wait and the clothes will be fine on the floor, just make sure the coffee is in hand and the pages are open! It’s time to aim for that A…hold thumbs for me.

Later!