Welcome to the journey of a middle aged grad student redirecting her life after working in dental offices for 30 years. I invite you to share my struggle with the need to change and grow and the desire to wallow in my comfortable life.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Procrastinating
These are my Top Ten techniques I have employed to avoid writing this terms paper. These are not things I would otherwise do, so I have not included anything around exercise, eating, shopping etc.
10) Laundry Yes, this is something I typically do, though usually on a need to do basis. When procrastinating it takes on a whole new urgency, however, and I must suddenly wash and iron everything.
9) Clean the fridge A significant undertaking, given that the crisper required gloves and mask to clean.
8) Stare into space. I think this might be my favourite pastime.
7) Wash the floors. A hefty undertaking and dominoes into moving furniture, dusting, cleaning out drawers...you see where this can chew up a day previously committed to paper writing.
6) Comb the cat. Even went out and purchased the Furminator, so that when I brush the cat I actually get enough fur to build two more cats.
5) Phone a friend. Usually someone I have not spoken to for over a year. Paper writing has done wonders for reconnecting with old friends.
4) Write a list of how I procrastinate. This is a desperate attempt to avoid writing in the 11th hour.
3) Watch The Office reruns. Seriously, how did I not watch this show when it was on the first time? Clearly I was not at school during its first run.
2) Fret about why I am not working on my paper.
1) Play computer games. Solitaire. Words with Friends. Pepper Panic. Name your poison, if it's a game that makes noise or can chew up an hour without a blink, I'm playing it.
Well. On that note, perhaps I will go do some more editing and get this thing handed in.
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LOL!! I can totally relate as this is me... I am now going to have to see if I can somehow take all day tomorrow off so I can write this paper by midnight April 7th... I was shining and scrubbing things on the counter that I have never noticed required shining before!! thanks for sharing this -I just don't feel so alone! :)
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that house cleaning somehow takes a whole new significance when there is school work to be done ;) I also tend to have much more cooked and baked yumminess around the house in those times; somehow there is more urgency for everything else but that term paper ;)
ReplyDeleteHa ha! I just read this now, a week after the due date. Is your house still clean?
ReplyDeleteI definitely have some well developed procrastinating skills.