divine angst

I am still procrastinating. OK, yeah, I have three pages written. Those three pages have no citations. They have really poor rule formation. They have some sound analysis, but analysis without authority is really no analysis at all.

But I have three pages. This tells me I can certainly churn out seven more in the next day and a half. What I might have more difficulty doing is churning out the peripheral parts of this silly brief–the factual summary, for instance–as well as the formatting parts, like the table of cases. (I hate creating a table of cases. Hate.)

I know I can get this thing done; I’m actually not worried about that. And it doesn’t have to be really super good–it’s just a threshold requirement and I only need to worry about being disqualified. I guess I just worry about what comes next. If I can’t get excited about it now, how can I get excited about it later, when I have to argue it?