Anti-Procrastinating Procrastination

If you've been reading this blog, you might have noticed that I've been busy with completing (and complaining about completing) my term papers. Well, you should congratulate me, because last Friday, I handed in two of them. Now, I'm working on my third and final paper for this semester- it's due next Monday.

Yesterday, in my attempt to prevent myself from procrastinating, I decided to engage in "anti-procrastinating procrastination" (coined by Rich). I figured that the fewer projects I had to work on, the less likely I would be tempted to do anything besides writing my paper. Therefore, I decided to get them all out of the way before I started.

By dinner time, I had done the following:

1. washed the dishes
2. vacuumed the carpets
3. swept the floor
4. dusted
5. wiped down the entire kitchen
6. tidied up the living room
7. did two loads of laundry
8. made the beds
9. went to the library and collected some books on reserve
10. wrote an entry for my ESL website
11. created a spreadsheet for our advice column in Time Out
12. filled in information such as problems listed and amount paid for the spreadsheet from June 2005 on
13. uploaded photos from cameras
14. updated blog
15. checked email and responded to all the emails that had not been responded to
16. took a nap
17. played a few games of Sudoku
18. reorganized my book shelf
19. looked in to how to officially change my name (which still hasn't been done!!)
20. plucked my eyebrows (apparently this is a very common thing to do when procrastinating, according to Radio 1)

So... I didn't get much done on the paper front, but I did get all of that out of the way. It's obviously working, cuz I don't have much else to do today except write my paper and I am 1/3 of the way there. I know I shouldn't be on here now, but you have to take a few breaks, right?