An Unconventional Procrastination Style?

As a college student, I believe I am credible enough to say that I am an expert in the art of procrastination. Hold on one second. Come again? Yes, procrastination.

It is something that we all do, and try to avoid, but also welcome it at the same time. Is this even possible? To want to avoid it, but to also let it happen? As the school year started out, I was good at avoiding procrastinating on doing work. I had everything finished almost a week ahead of time like a good over-achiever. Recently, this has kept up, but in a weird way.

I can not say that I have fully dispelled the spell of procrastination, but I have at least countered it in my own weird way. As I type this blog post right now, I am procrastinating. No, I have finished all my work this week already and some work due next week as well. Not only that, I have no class today. So what in the world could I be procrastinating about? This isn't a small thing I'm procrastinating about. In fact, it is something that is important for my future. No, not important. It IS my future.

Pharmacy College Application and essays. That is what I'm procrastinating about. Since the summer ended, I have not touched any application or any of the essays I wrote until today. I know I should not be procrastinating about reviewing and putting final touches on it, yet I still do. The weird thing is, I don't procrastinate by watching videos or going and chatting on facebook. Instead, I procrastinate by doing schoolwork. Yes, schoolwork. In a strikingly weird way, I enjoy getting work done ahead of time in place of working on fixing my college essays and applications. Whenever I even think about doing my essay, my eyes immediately flick to behind my computer, where the syllabuses for all my classes are, to see what homework or work I can get done ahead of time.

If you ask me, this seems a bit sad. An outsider observing my time in my room would shake his/her head and surely be thinking "What is wrong with this poor human being?" I myself do not know why this is the way I choose to procrastinate. However, I can think of this in a good way. Even though I am procrastinating, I am at least getting some work done. I won't get behind on both things, but just one. Of course this is just the optimistic way to look at it. There are many pessimistic ways to look at it as well.

So now that I have put off looking at my essays for another 10 minutes or for however long I've been typing, I should probably go back to it. But it just makes me wonder, am I the only one who procrastinates this way? What do other people do when they are putting of some sort of work? What do YOU do when you deliberately put off some work or assignment? - for we all are conscious of what we are doing when we procrastinate. Let me know. Ciao.