Here are the things at which I've worked today rather than compose my keynote for Leeds:
- walked Katherine to school via a circuitous route
- took a run in the rain
- checked email repeatedly
- sent comic messages to college colleagues about commencement
- alliterated (see preceding item)
- updated the English Department blog with a spiffy picture of T Shirt Tuesday
- Twittered inanities
- FaceBooked
- did laundry
- ate a second bowl of cereal
- annoyed the dog
- annoyed the lizard
- annoyed myself
- took the Tiny Shriner out of my computer bag to bring to Kalamazoo
- did more laundry
- feared I was running out of ways to avoid composing a talk in which I reveal that I know nothing about anything, but suddenly remembered that I could blog something at ITM
- hit the PUBLISH button for this post
- went finally to work?
Here's what I did all morning in terms of labor avoidance: drank coffee and tried to figure out if the movie "Elegy" [based on Roth's "The Dying Animal"], which I watched last night, is either a really stupid male fantasy or one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. I came to no worthy conclusion.
ReplyDeleteSo far I can add to the list ruminating over a TV show I watched last night but am too embarrassed to admit I watched; made a caffeinated beverage; ate some peanuts; looked over the outline I put together last week. That is about five minutes of work so far.
ReplyDeleteNow please don't comment again because it just distracts me (from eating peanuts).
Jeffrey: I hate it when you eat peanuts, so I have to distract you again. Was that TV show "American Idol," by any chance? Uh huh; I thought so.
ReplyDeleteSome of us have been working for hours! Stop procrastinating.
ReplyDeleteYou're not alone. I returned home this evening to find that my SO (who 'works' from home) had spent a large part of the day organising our photographs and (bizarrely) lining up the remote controls in the living room. This is such totally uncharacteristic behaviour that I can only assume there was serious work to be avoided. And so, of course, I must sign off anonymously so Google never finds out.
ReplyDelete"went finally to work?"
ReplyDeleteNo, QED
...the funny thing about posts like this is that, as I face the long intermission of my teaching career for a dissertation fellowship year...I realize my favorite way to procrastinate is to work on stuff for my class. I call it "productive procrastination."
ReplyDeleteBright side: I anticipate next year's blogging will benefit immensely from not teaching...