Mar. 21st, 2003
Procrastination (and why I rule)
Mar. 21st, 2003 11:22 pmYou know what I can do? I can procrastinate. But, in order to effectively do this, I must be busy while doing it, so as to look as if I'm not, in fact, procrastinating.
LJ is a timesuck, but I can't do that all day. (My reading speed enables me to get to /friends?skip=180 in under two hours.)
I have a palmtop, and to encourage good behavior, I schedule tasks I must perform (chores, homework, once-offs, and the like) into it. It has this nifty feature, "floating event", that lets undone tasks follow me from day to day. They can be scheduled to repeat. (Like laundry. Like vacuuming. I have to do it... and it gets done only if I'm reminded. So I remind myself.) (Hey, it's the Port-a-Brain!!)
But I still procrastinate.
I don't want to do my homework. So I look at my to-do section with the floating items, and I sweep the floor. I wash the dishes. And then I really don't want to do my laundry. So I look at the list again, and procrastinate on the laundry by boning up on that chapter of Oracle...
Then, I'm all surprised when I don't have anything to do...
LJ is a timesuck, but I can't do that all day. (My reading speed enables me to get to /friends?skip=180 in under two hours.)
I have a palmtop, and to encourage good behavior, I schedule tasks I must perform (chores, homework, once-offs, and the like) into it. It has this nifty feature, "floating event", that lets undone tasks follow me from day to day. They can be scheduled to repeat. (Like laundry. Like vacuuming. I have to do it... and it gets done only if I'm reminded. So I remind myself.) (Hey, it's the Port-a-Brain!!)
But I still procrastinate.
I don't want to do my homework. So I look at my to-do section with the floating items, and I sweep the floor. I wash the dishes. And then I really don't want to do my laundry. So I look at the list again, and procrastinate on the laundry by boning up on that chapter of Oracle...
Then, I'm all surprised when I don't have anything to do...