Day 125 - Saturday 18th July 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

Lockdown

Deadlines.

I am a person who needs a deadline. Or my Virgo tendencies like a deadline. And a list. And a schedule.

I digress.

I have always wanted to be a person who finishes things ahead of a deadline. But I'm not. At school, I was always a last-minute Larry with homework. This was partly poor time management on my behalf and partly because I didn't have a lot of time as I spent most evenings doing something along the lines of ballet, drama, rehearsals for am-dram etc and my homework was a much less enticing prospect. I did however always get it done. This is where I got good at late nights.

At university I got a bit better, I think the size of the essays was quite daunting. But I definitely had several late nights finishing things in time. This time my excuse was all drink related - I was either out drinking or I was working in a bar serving drinks to other people.

There is a writing competition deadline on Sunday. It's been open since June. I could have completed my entry 6 weeks ago but I didn't. And so here we are again, deadline looming.

Will I ever learn?

(no)

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