After watching Francis waste his time concentrating on anything but his project in Reese Cooks, I've started noticing this behavior in myself. I find fascinatingly stupid ways of keeping myself busy and away from my real work. I'm pretty sure everyone does this, although perhaps some to a greater degree than others. So I thought I'd start a thread on it.
Ways I procrastinate:
Ways I procrastinate:
- making paper clip chains (you wouldn't believe how annoyned my parents get with that)
- searching for pennies scattered around the house/car etc. and counting them
- A few days before watching said ep (I remembered this during the show and laughed for 2 mins straight), I followed a bug out of the room I was in, occaisionally nudging it with a piece of paper to keep it going, so that I wouldn't have to squash it and make a mess.
- that dumb irritating number pattern/game thing. Anyone seen this before? 1-11-21-1211-111221 Well try that for 2(1/2) pages
- creating pointless threads