I Totally Have a Deadline Today

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1. Eternal Density says:
   June 22, 2010 at 9:52 am

   Ah yes, “deadlines”.
   AKA “the reason I’m merging a Subversion code repository branch at home (for work) at ten minutes to midnight, and I just got home from work”
2. Shawn Powers says:
   June 22, 2010 at 10:06 am

   Right, because there’s Photoshopping to do!
3. Jim C. says:
   June 22, 2010 at 11:37 am

   Deadlines are important, so have fun with that.

   Speaking of deadlines, my wife got me a Nook for Father’s Day and, for a while, the pack-rat-wanna-collect-actual-books side of my brain wrestled with the ooooooooh-new-shiny-gadget side. My first eBook purchase was “Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded” because I just started reading this blog a few months ago and the sheer size of the archive confuses and frightens me. Also, in recent weeks I tore through the Old Man’s War series and Sheep and loved them, so count me as a new fan.

   What does that have to do with deadlines? Well, with a paper due *today* that was only half-written *yesterday*, I of course spent most of last night reading YHMWBG instead of finishing it.

   So, I finally buckled down and was up until 2:00a.m. writing about -ugh- *marketing*. Oh, well, sleep is for the weak. I will say that my marketing paper was probably 50% snarkier than it would have been had I not be immersed in Scalzi Sytle for the hours before finishing it. My professor does has a sense of humor, so I suspect it will help my grade, so thanks for that.

   Also, the nook is comfortable to read, the screen is terrific and I think I’m already converted. I guess the shiny-gadget side won.
4. Johnny Carruthers says:
   June 22, 2010 at 11:48 am

   So this means you’ll be posting another photo of bacon taped to your cat sometime later today, right?
5. Chris Turkel says:
   June 22, 2010 at 12:08 pm

   First, weekends off, now deadlines??
6. Steve Burnap says:
   June 22, 2010 at 12:14 pm

   Hmmm…you know, George Orwell is managing to post to his blog despite the threat of immanent German invasion and you are abandoning us over a silly little “deadline”?
7. Rembrant says:
   June 22, 2010 at 3:42 pm

   Did everyone see todays Doonsbury? It’s a good one. Four plus decades and he’s still got it.
8. Chang for days says:
   June 22, 2010 at 5:14 pm

   Wow! A deadline and 8 hours later no Photoshop or other goofery from our great Scalzicce! So focused! Dedicated!
9. Penny says:
   June 22, 2010 at 5:44 pm

   well as I always say… if it wasn’t for procrastination I would have nothing to look forward to!! I do not enjoy deadlines but always find my self staring them down… they always win.
10. froonium says:
    June 22, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    *knock knock*

    Can John come out and play?
11. J says:
    June 22, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    So I picked up your writing book from my local branch of the Dayton public library today, and right inside is what appears to be either a signature or someone with a pen had a seizure. But there’s a little note that says “gift of author” on the blank page just before it, so I’m guessing signature.

    This is very cool of you to do. I am tempted to forget to return this now but I will contain myself.
12. John Kerr says:
    June 23, 2010 at 6:14 am

    Deadline?
    Let me know when you have a headline.

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