Devil in Green Plastic

There is this piece of assignment that I have managed to put aside for about 2 months now. Even as I am typing this, it is sitting right next to me in its gawdy green plastic folder.

I don't know why but I just can't bring myself to do it. It is not that it is difficult; I'm pretty sure that it is nothing beyond me and I can probably get it done in an hour or so. All I need to do is to take it out of the gawdy green folder, stapler the messed up pages together, review those damn clauses that the lawyer has redrafted and then, depending on whether I like them or not, throw it back to the lawyer or incorporate them into the contract.

Sounds easy? Yes. But these fingers....these eyes... this mind.... is refusing to have anything to do with it!

Last night, I woke up at 3am to switch off the air-con because somebody has sinus problems. After I crawled out of bed to do so, I couldn't get back to sleep again. As I was laying there, half-awake, the gawdy green folder suddenly came to mind. That's right, at 3am in the morning, I thought about the contract and how overdue it is. I don't know if it is the heat or my panic but I started sweating profusely. What if I am the sole cause of the dip in our business profits? What if somebody gets screwed because they can't sign the darn thing? I lay there for an hour thinking what a witch I am and swore that I will get it done the next morning, by hook or by crook.

This morning as I look at the gawdy green folder, it seems to have grown horns. The fact that it is taunting me in the middle of the night is evidence that it is sheer evil.

The last conversation I had with my lawyer was when he missed our teleconference call because he couldn't get back to the office in time due to a riot that broke out at the High Courts by unhappy lawyers against the judiciary. Time of crisis! What if I don't like the clauses and have to throw it back? Won't that add to his existing problems? How can I be so cruel? Why am I making these excuses? Why am I even BLOGGING about this????

Shut up and just do it, Frou!