At work, I make lists of all the things I have to do each day and then I cross these tasks off in different colors. It is very enjoyable and makes me feel quite productive to see list after list, red-lined and finished. Even really inane things make these lists, because I WILL get chewed out if I don't verify something about license renewal for the third time or grab my boss a small coffee with milk on my way back from the post office. It recently occurred to me that if I had theses kind of lists for what I do in my personal time, they would be even dumber. And maybe, just maybe, if I start making lists of all the stupid things I do with my precious spare time, I will actually realize how much time I'm wasting and will be motivated to become a more productive person. We'll start with this:
-play with the Clipiola Italian paperclips from my office and think of ways I can use them at home, simply because they are spiral and look cool
-look at wedding and baby pictures of people I disliked in high school but am still, for some unknown reason, friends with on Facebook
-look at pictures of myself on Facebook to make sure I'm not tagged in anything really weird or terrible (although even if I was, I'm sure I'd probably leave it up anyways). simultaneously verify that there are at least a couple pictures in the first page view in which my hair looks nice and I don't look fat, and in which I appear to be happy
-search for on-sale flat screen TVs online for my bedroom, because even though I spent 600 bucks on a nice 32" only a few months ago, I am too lazy (and cold) to go to the living room and watch it
-re-read my journal, which is a bad idea because it gets me nowhere, wastes my time, and makes me extremely sentimental and/or emotional, neither of which is useful at this point in my life
-search craigslist for a new, cheaper apartment and get depressed about how much I pay in rent, this depression turns to anxiety when I think about how much I pay on top of rent for health insurance and utilities, anxiety turns back to depression when I realize that the only way I can fix this is to move out of New York
-refresh weather.com to see if the temperature has changed since I started wasting time on my computer. get angry about the crap weather that inevitably returns every time I have a day off
More to come later, when I am wasting my time in ways other than writing on this blog. Post office time now. List making time later. Hoping for some caffeine in between.
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