Um, you'd think I would have known better.

But then again, maybe not.

See, I'm a chronic, unapologetic procrastinator. I've procrastinated since grade school, but I didn't really perfect it till grad school. And it never failed me. If I had gotten less than a B on more than one or two assignments, I might have been persuaded to change my waiting ways. But it never happened and I always came through with wonderfully. My shining moment was my final project in grad school. It was the project that would make us or break us. We had two months to research and write two papers, neither of which could be more than 20 pages each. Easy, right? Passing meant that we graduated with a masters degree. Failing meant another semester of school. Bleh.

What took everyone else two months of agony to do, took me a week and a half. A couple of days of research, and 7 days solid of writing (and I do mean 7 solid days of writing - I didn't really sleep all that much). I passed.

However, just as my writing skills have suffered from neglect, so have my procrastination skills. Not to say that I don't still procrastinate. Hell, I just saw a doctor for the first time in 6 years, and that was only because I have allergies. I have yet to make an appointment to see a dentist. Friends and family know to expect me 10-15 minutes after any scheduled time. If I'm on time, then you can question how much I like you. For instance, I'm always on time for school and work :)

But I'm kinda freaking out right now about my taxes. See, I left them till today, and I didn't properly scope out how long it was going to take me to do them (the first rule of successful procrastination is to leave yourself *just* enough time to get the project done). I thought it would be easy to file online, I thought I could do this anytime. Now I'm left with no time to get someone else to do this for me, an invalid customer service number, and single copies of the forms, so I can't make any mistakes, and I don't understand some of the questions at all.

I really should have done this a few weeks ago.