Mystery solved.

I am writing a feature at the moment. It's due in a very very short amount of time. It's all about birth and MAN has it been interesting (tell you ALL about it later, promise, when the exclusive copy rights expire and I have a chance to drink the 29 shots of tequila I'll need to get over it).

Let's just say I there are MILES to go before I sleep. Which is why I find it particularly amusing that if I type "the" into my Google navigation bar the first address that comes up is http://www.thesuperficial.com followed closely by http://www.thelancet.com. I guess we don't have to wonder why exactly I am so far behind, eh?

And speaking of medical journals, is there any evidence that procrastination is a DSM-IV listed disorder? Any chance that Merck will start marketing a pharmaceutical solution? (I mean if big pharma can test a drug for COMPULSIVE SHOPPING I figured I'd give it a stab...okay so compulsive shopping isn't going to make it into the next edition of the DSM-V, but they were really thinkin' about it)..

Comments

[Mijke Rhemtulla]

I used to feel guilty about my procrastination (she writes at 1:14 am while supposedly reading Hume) until a dear friend showed me this: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
It's wonderfully affirming. Love it.

[MT]

Just make sure it's perfect, changes how we think about the world and leaves off with a kicker the reader will remember for the rest of his or her life. You want to give your editor something to work with.