Distractions

[kerravonsen]

I did not do the things today that I intended to do. I did not do my washing (though I did pack and run the dishwasher). I did not write fic. I did not watch Doctor Who. Instead, I updated tags and character-lists in my netfic-reviews database, investigated bookmarking software and firefox plugins, set up a WebDAV server to sync my bookmarks to, and reorganized my bookmarks. I did stuff, but none of it was important stuff. (sigh)

Why do I procrastinate?

Comments

[kalypso]

Your opening sounds a little like the General Confession (or the General Confession as I knew it, in the 1662 form).

[infiniteviking]

Procrastination is invidious. *sigh* And figuring software out seems to take such a long time these days. Want to do something, spend two hours getting your account set up so it doesn't spam you or spread your personal information around the internet.

[infiniteviking]

..and I meant insidious instead of invidious. What is brain.

[kerravonsen]

Yeah, well one of the reasons I set up my own WebDAV server is because I didn't want to entrust my bookmarks to some outside party who would either end up charging me money, spam me, spread my personal information around the internet, or go bankrupt in five minutes.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

My sympathy! Procrastination is so hard to beat. It creeps in. At least you got SOMETHING done. Lately I've been terrible about spending time doing things like reading tons of news, looking at LOLcats, and reading the DW episode reactions of people I don't even know.

I think I need to be busier. When I'm sufficiently busy, I procrastinate by doing something useful. When I only have a few things to get done, I procrastinate them by being totally useless, and it's a lot easier to convince myself to stop cleaning and write a paper than it is to stop messing around online and go clean the flat.

[kerravonsen]

(grins at icon)

Thank you for reminding me that it could have been worse.