A couple hours ago, a friend of mine gave me a tip to help me get through the rest of my exam marking: Mark one test. Play one game. Mark one test. Play one game.

The funny part is, this is pretty much what I already do.

I’ve written before about how this time of year is confusing for us and how we have to pay attention to what we’re doing.

This year, at least for me, is especially complicated. I finished marking my high school exams  Tuesday evening and have spent the last few days passing the tests back. Since I haven’t had much to do in the afternoon and evenings, I’ve gone to pen shows and played games. Mentally and physically, I feel as if I’m already finished.

The problem is today I got a new batch of exams, which means I have to somehow convince myself that I’m not finished. To make matters worse, there are not that many of them (48; for high school I had over 160) and they are not due until Wednesday.

Now, the adult thing to do would be to sit down and start marking and not stop until the last exam was marked. Yeah, great plan, too bad I’m not actually an adult once I’ve finished exams, even when I’m not actually finished. In fact, I get down right lazy once I’ve finished. This means if I don’t get past this denial phase and start marking, it’s not joke that the work will expand to fit the time and it will take four days to finish the exams. (And I don’t mean by doing an efficient

I started marking exams this evening and then spent an hour playing games whilst chatting with my friend via the glorious time wasting magical powers of the internet. While we were playing he suggested the plan I mentioned before.

I’ll have to surf the internet a while and think about that plan more carefully. Then I’ll do some marking. Maybe.