Write first.

I am taking this advice seriously and attempting to follow it as I plod through the morning. The kids are off to school, Nathan has been talked to, and now it's just me and my computer. We make an uneven pair, my computer and I, but I think in the long run we'll work out just fine. Breakfast has yet to be eaten and I cannot find my glasses anywhere. These procrastinations are small compared to the more "legitimate" excuses I have found this morning. Returning a phone call to Financial Aid, scheming about how to get out of a recent parking ticket, and going to the store to buy bread have all taken me from my computer's side this morning.

I guess the overall theme has been: Do I feel productive? Am I working toward my goals? If I cannot answer yes, then I know it is procrastination taking over. I feel I have justified this posting, which in my pragmatic world might otherwise be classified as PROCRASTINATING, to make it apply to the question about my goals. If my goal is to write first, then I just need to write. Plain and simple.

Now, about what I need to write: There is a third draft of my personal statement for law school, open in Word, on my toolbar as I type. There are drafts of my letters to my recommenders and another document for my application process.

I have "written first" for the day. Now on to revising those pesky and more important things that will effect the rest of my life!!!

ciao for now,
me