10 Ways to Avoid Work

Being a bit of an expert on wasting time, I thought I would provide a little guide for those who are not as fortunate as myself. I've come to realise (after talking with SO many friends who feel the same way) that you do the most random things when you have an essay or some other work to do. So, here goes, the top ten:

1. Go shopping
Especially for clothes for the job you're preparing to do (Teaching Practice I'm really talking about here!) but any other shopping will suffice.

2. Tidy your room
Like, seriously, what other time would you get so enthusiastic about tidying your room - unless you're Monica from Friends...

3. Colour co-ordinate and tidy your files
I was especially afflicted with this symptom during my A-Levels...

4. Watch TV
Especially 1st thing in the morning. That way you'll never be able to pull yourself away from it all day. Even worse if there's nothing good on, because you'll keep waiting around for something good to come on...

5. Arrange to go out for lunch
With friends you see all the time and who would totally understand if you couldn't see them because you were working for instance. And you did see them, last night, when you suggested lunch the next day!

6. Agree to go for coffee when tae-bo is cancelled
Ok, so I'm fishing here, but I did do this on Tuesday night, and while tae-bo takes an hour out of your " 'work' that you were doing" (yea right!) you will spend the rest of the night out for coffee.

7. Go on msn
There will always be some poor soul willing to oblige you in conversation. The best conversations are about how much work you should be doing, how little you're doing, and what everybody else is doing (hopefully less that you, that way you'll feel better).

8. Make a scrapbook
Let's paint the scene. You went to Paris in June, and brought home a load of trinkets. You've come to the end of your scrapbook and you just can't find the perfect one to replace it so the nick-nacks keep building up. The day when you finally decide is the final day when you HAVE to begin your work you get a brainwave - you could make a scrapbook, at least for your Paris momentos. So you do. And here it is...



9. Create a 3D model of the Opera Garnier
I did this tonight. Right after finishing my Paris scrapbook. I bought it in Paris and haven't got round to making it up yet. It actually reminds me of those doll's houses you used to be able to buy, that you made up yourself - I'm convinced I had one...



10. Blog it!
After all this, and realising that all you were doing was wasting time, you decide to blog it. Helloo???