Essay finished but still procrastinating

The black cloud that has loomed over me for the last few weeks has finally lifted with the completion of the last wretched piece of work of any length for my teaching qualification. There's still a lot to do and no doubt I'll carry on putting everything off until the last minute, driving myself into a blue funk, avoiding everything and everybody until the last lesson plan and evaluation has been wrested from my brain. I have to say though that I feel a lot better this morning! Looking through patterns, which I've been doing a lot of (it's great procrastination) has taken on a feeling of possibly allowing myself some time to actually make something rather than just staying in the fantasy world of mentally pairing up stash and patterns.

I have a Burda World of Fashion skirt cut out in some ancient leftover apricot cotton twill but the fly fastening is putting me off starting it. I've even cut the facings out of a lovely Liberty cotton lawn. I have the zip and the thread and everything! Ok, let's make a plan. Today I'll go to the University and drop off my assignment, come back and write lesson plans for tomorrow and then do a bit of housework (yeah right!). Tomorrow, teaching, including an observation, then Thursday..... sewing!! Definitely! (Probably!)