Procrastination

Procrastination - putting off what should be done today until tomorrow, or maybe even the next day.

I don't think I have always been a procrastinator, but maybe I have. Right now, as I was looking up the dictionary definition of procrastinate, I got sidetracked by another word on the same page. You know, the one in large type at the top of the page that tells you what the last word on the page is. This word is proctodaeum, and, no, I'm not going to tell you what it means; but it's probably what you're thinking. You're going to look it up, aren't you?

A few weeks ago, I decided I needed more to do to keep me busy, or I might just sit on the couch all day reading. So I signed up for a creative writing course, bought and loaded new accounting software for the Finnish Heritage Museum, took a weaving class, borrowed lots of books from the library (along with some great BBC mystery videos), increased my knitting time and ambitions, promised I would brush the dogs more often - you get the idea. The picture on this page is Rebecca, weaving instructor, and Linda learning how to string the loom. I don't think "string" is the correct technical term, but close enough. Can you guess what I've been doing most of lately? Watching TV! After all, the Olympics are on, and they only come around once every four years, well every two if you count both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Then there's Den. He really helps out a lot, does most of the cooking, and looks after the dogs. But he has this stereo. It is somehow attached to the computer, and to the TV, and he loves to spend time trying to make it sound incrementally better. In his experiments, he comes across all sorts of music styles and videos, and I have to listen to and watch them. Is this procrastination? I hope not, because it's really very interesting and entertaining. Just because I get nothing else done doesn't really matter, does it?

Oh, wait - I don't have any books or videos overdue at the library, and we did finish the weaving class, so, maybe I'm not such a procrastinator after all. In fact, I think I will work on my writing for my class right now. Just saying it makes me feel better.