What a perfect way to waste a day

I have no less than 40 things to do today. I should be working quickly and efficiently so that I can get my massive to do list done. But let’s be honest, I don’t feel like it. I slept through my alarm, waking up late I decided to just skip class today. I have too much to do, so missing yoga isn’t a big deal. Of course instead of showering and getting ready, I proceeded to lay in bed for 3 hours and read a book my sister recommended to me. It was a great book and I am now anxious to visit her and get the sequel.

While lying in bed, wasting the day, I told myself “Self, if you are going to lay in bed and finish this book you are going to have to bust your butt to get everything done today. So finish before noon and get going!” Well I did finish before noon, but rather than get going, I put on my sweats and flipped open my laptop. I’m sure many of you are familiar with the many distractions a computer can hold. I of course had to check my myspace, facebook, xanga and my three e-mail accounts. I know you are probably thinking what a waste of time. All of those unnecessary wastes of time. And you are right. But I can’t escape their allure.

Of course I needed to check my wordpress account and while sitting here I decided why not write about my utter laziness. I really feel like a sloth today. In all fairness I spent the weekend sick with food poisoning, so I think I’ve earned a do-nothing-day. Unfortunatly the rest of the world doesn’t care. I’m so tempted right now to go back to bed and tell everyone to leave me alone. But that would be bad, wouldn’t it? I keep telling myself to close all the stupid websites and start checking things off my list.

I really do make lists, I make them on my computer now. Notepad is the easiest program to use, I don’t get the satisfaction of the checkmark, but deleting something is nearly as exciting. I used to make lists in my notebooks, hundreds of sheets of paper have been wasted on my to do lists. I usually stuck to the traditional check mark to signify a completed task, but on especially busy days crossing it out til it could no longer be read was so satisfying.

In junior high I liked letting everyone know just how busy I was. I would make lists on my hand, my reasoning was that it was more convenient than paper. I’d write all over my left hand/arm. Making lists of every thing I needed to do, sometimes adding unnecessary things so that I would seem just that busy. People often wished me good luck. I loved that they noticed. Of course the end of every list included WH (wash hand) Nothing is more embarassing than showing up to school with part of yesterday’s list still on my hand. I gave up on the hand lists when I realized how raw and red it was becoming.

The clock is ticking away and my list is no shorter, in fact in the past 10 minutes 5 things have been added to the already monstrous list. To make myself feel better I just added to my list “waste 20 minutes venting my laziness on the internet” and now I am checking it off.

~~Lucy~~