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August 25, 2008
Things to do when you're procrastinating.....
1. Check Facebook
2. Send random emails
3. Look at your blog stats
4. Make a salad
5. Look at the clock, comment out loud that your report is not going to write itself
6. Eat the rest of your salad
7. Play computer games
8. Make a couple phone calls, these don't actually count as procrastinating, since they are relevant to the report.
9. Play more computer games
10. Look at the clock, note an entire hour has passed, comment out loud that your report is not going to write itself
11. Mentally rehearse a blog post about procrastinating
12. Mentally rehearse a meeting which will not take place for several days in which the sum of your involvement is to show up and listen.
13. Check Facebook
14. Check email for answers to random emails sent earlier
15. Move laundry basket from kitchen to bedroom
16. Get drink from refrigerator
17. Play more computer games
18. Survey notes relevant to report
19. Check feed reader for new items of interest
20. Look at clock, notice another hour has passed, comment out loud that your report is not going to write itself
21. Close window with computer game
22. Pull up previous report and create a new copy of it to work from
23. Write report, which will take all of 45 minutes
24. Email report, cross your fingers and hope the formatting doesn't disintegrate in transit like it has every. other. time.
25. Tell yourself it wasn't nearly as much work as you'd anticipated
26. Check Facebook
27. Write blog post
28. Ask yourself why you're still up at 1:20 am when everyone with any sense at all is sound asleep.
29. Hit "publish", turn off computer and tuck yourself in bed already
Sweet dreams.
Posted by Anna at August 25, 2008 1:12 AM