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the-busy-ghost · 1 month

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One less frequently discussed form of procrastination is when you get an essay back that actually got a decent mark, and instead of working on the stuff you have to do for your next looming deadline, you spend an hour re-reading your own essay, obsessed and delighted by your own slightly nonsensical arguments, like a cockatoo admiring and preening itself in the mirror of its cage

#There was an exact point where I tilted my head a certain way to admire a footnote and was like 'wait a minute this behaviour feels familiar #And then realised that it was familiar because I have seen budgies and cockatoos do the same thing and that's not a good look #Got to stop it really wasn't much more than a competent essay and the only reason I'm so delighted by it is that it's taking my mind off #the revision I actually have to do for an exam on Monday and the dissertation proposal due on Tuesday that I've not written a single word f #You also then spend the next hour worrying at the minor points you got wrong like you're a dog that needs to wear a cone #Which is not helpful either but some of the implications of these 'minor' mistakes will keep me up at night I know it

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