1074: Invoices

I didn't get to sleep early enough so I didn't get up as early as I was the past couple of days.  It's okay, though, my landlord wanted to stop by so I was here for that, and I can make up the class.  And I was not getting enough sleep.

Anyway, the sleep, or the getting up (or not getting up) early isn't bothering me.  What's bothering me are my invoices.

While I was looking for work, I stumbled into a freelance gig as a medical interpreter, of all things.  I'm contacted to go to an appointment and translate for the patient.  It usually amounts to helping somone fillout paperwork for ten or fifteen minutes, and then waiting until they're called in to see the doctor, at which point I translate the doctor's questions for the patient and the patient's responses for the doctor.   The doctor does a medical history review and short exam, usually no longer than ten minutes, and then we're all done.  And I get paid for at least two hours' worth of work.

However, to get paid, I have to submit invoices.  And the weird thing is, after a month or so, I started procrastinating on those invoices.  A LOT.  And I don't know why.  At this point, I have maybe five hundred dollars worth of invoices outstanding, and I could really use five hundred dollars.  I'm not sure why I'm procrasting on this.  They are boring to write, but they're not hard.  Just tedious.  I think I'm just so tired of doing busy work, doing the boring crappy stuff.  I think, that at this point, when I have the luxury to do what I want, and I'm getting paid to go study what I want, I don't want to do what I don't want to do anymore.  I don't want to do boring invoices.  I don't want to have crappy, uninteresting jobs.  I don't want to sacrifice anymore.

But this kind of reminds me of something my brother and I would say when we were kids, and my mom would tell us we'd have to wait to buy something on sale.  My brother and I would talk about, how when we grew up, we would never buy things on sale.  Of course, we grew up, and try to always buy things on sale, although my brother, being a man, will buy things at full price when he needs them, we also now understand the rationale behind buying things on sale (and it's not just because we're too poor to afford regular price).

Except I don't yet know the rationale for doing my invoices.  Although, I'm being childish by not doing them.  And I'll feel better once I get them done.  And I owe them.  I'm being irresponsible.

Fine, I'll try to do them again.  Let's see how many I can get done tonight.