The end of the semester with its traditional big projects is approaching. And I am a bit of a procrastinator. So the two go together in interesting ways. But I have found that I can be rather productive in my procrastination, which I know seems like an impossibility, but I have a few examples.
Last semester I had a big paper to write. But we’d also just given a test in the class I work with. I had a whole week to grade the tests, but I graded them within a day or two. When I returned them to the professor, she commented that I’d returned them real fast. And then she laughed at me when I explained that I’d graded the tests because I wanted to procrastinate writing the paper. That procrastination was highly productive. And the paper did get done, eventually.
This semester, I had some papers I needed to grade. I was productive in my procrastinating of those as well. While procrastinating grading, I cleaned and scrubbed my whole house. After the house was clean I did sit down and grade.
I wonder what I’ll accomplish as I continue to procrastinate.
I am an educator and PhD. I quilt, belly dance, run, read, and try to grow things. I am a Mormon. I am infertile. I am a daughter, sister, aunt, grand-daughter, friend, wife, and mom.
Brett L. Dennis
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You could come unpack for me. That would help you procrastinate for awhile.
I’m procrastinating sorting through 15 research articles by doing laundry. And I’m procrastinating doing laundry by trying to fix this darn inability to communicate between Firefox, Gmail, and AdBlock. I should probably just go throw the laundry in and get going on the articles.