boondoggling
kelly | 24 April 2007 - 10:29pm
I'm doing it again. Procrastinating, that is. The course I'm taking ends Thursday, and on Thursday we have nine reflective journals and a final project due. I have, to this point, completed five of the journals (all within the past 2 days), which I think is pretty damn good. I mean, that's over half of my homework! You know, if you don't count the final project.
Shit.
This evening I've been sitting on the sofa with my laptop, typing away. Rob is being very good about not distracting me. He's also being very good about bringing me beer. I never drank beer in college, so I figure now's the time to catch up. I never procrastinated in college, either...
At least I'm a productive procrastinator, looking for any and all legitimate tasks to complete. Like replying to emails. Like doing laundry. Like brushing the cats. Like loading the dishwasher. Like making a grocery list. Like checking the forecast. Like lint-rolling the sofa. Like looking up the word procrastinate in the thesaurus.
A few minutes ago, I looked up from my laptop and asked, "Hey, how many total nights have we spent in hotels in the past 12 months?"
Pause. And then, "Are you taking a survey?!"
Um, maybe. I happen to love surveys. And I happen to have received a customer satisfaction survey in my email, which I happen to be checking every 5 minutes. Not that I'm looking for a distraction or anything.
Ooh, the laundry just buzzed. Gotta run.
- 509 reads


My favorite important task for academic procrastinating: check all the smoke detectors in the house. By putting fire near them.
Beer is a procrastinators friend.
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:)
Love you.
HA! Well done. You've got quite a funny post here.
I hope you get your homework done. :-)
Don't forget, the books on your bookshelf need to be arranged alphabetically, and you should probably go through your desk drawers to clean them out... you know, so you can focus on your project better! Can you tell I've done this before? :)
You are totally welcome to procrastinate at my house as I have some chores that need doing too.
Dude, I procrastinated my way thru graduate school, fretting for 3/4 of my time there with a healthy dose of berating in between. Finally towards the end, I just accepted that I was a HUGE procrastinator and realized, I'd get it done. I accepted that I like to work under pressure, stress the hell out and also, that my closets and chores needed my procrastination because now, with no school work to procrastinate about, guess what's not getting done?
And maybe I should consider going back to school for English since I seem to be very good at run-on sentences.
There is nothing like having a school deadline to get alot of other things done. I so hear you on this one!
Beer-fueled cramming? YES! That's gonna make for some good reflective journal reading!
:)
Also, if you want a fun distraction, go to YouTube and search for "little girl wants to kick ask" (or, you know, just click here). Good times for all!