Procrastination

Five ways in which I procrastinate:

1. Blog reading
It’s amazing what Bloglines can throw my way when I need to avoid whatever it is I need to avoid. Although it (Bloglines) does seem to have been playing up a bit lately – a few regularly updated blogs aren’t showing up as having been updated. I get suspicious when I realise I haven’t seen anything new from a particular blog in a while, go direct to the blog, and voilà! find that it has been updated, Bloglines just hasn’t displayed the fact.

2. Web surfing
I’ll include this because for me it is different to blog reading – going through my ancient list of bookmarks and seeing what I can find. Either that, or reading stuff using my bookmarks of newspaper sites and making myself amazed/cross/upset at The State of The World.

3. Game playing
Usual something simple like Spider Solitaire or Minesweeper. For variety, crosswords or Sudoku. For serious procrastination, something involved like Civilization 4 or Sid Meier’s Railroads. If I’ve given up altogether on the pretense that I need to be doing something else, WoW.

4. Reading
I often re-read things – or read something I know will be very simple – like something by Enid Blyton… Like Ampersand Duck (from whose blog I got this memey list) this would have to be my oldest form of procrastination. Items 1 and 2 derive from this love of reading, I guess.

5. Napping
This is the ultimate. Luckily I only do this at home. It is sometimes tempting to do a George Costanza and make a bed under my desk, but I have never stooped that low.

Steve Pavlina has a good article on overcoming procrastination. I’ll read it… later. (Sorry, bad joke!)

Says Baubles the Cat: Whateverrr!