One of my favorite things to procrastinate is packing - packing for a trip, packing for a move, packing for a day at the out or whatever. If it’s just me, I will procrastinate until the cows come home and insist I put things in a suitcase. (I’m a bit better when someone else is relying on me or if I don’t want to make everyone wait on me while I figure out what else I need to pack.) I used to pack for business trips to Vancouver at 5 a.m. before hopping to the airport for my 7:30 a.m. flight.
The trick is to procrastinate properly.
One of the best ways I’ve found to procrastinate packing is to do laundry. (Procrastinating laundry is a whole other topic…) I could have started packing this weekend for the trip I’m leaving on tomorrow. That would have been quite clever. Instead, the past 2 days I’ve been doing laundry pretty much non-stop. Well, as non-stop as my job will let me - it’s really quite inefficient for me to try to do laundry during the workweek despite working from home. Everything (except one towel and stuff worn during the laundry marathon) is clean now and even has made it up to the bedroom.
So, I have achieved the joy of procrastinating by doing something productive as well as tricked myself into preparing for my trip at the same time. Now that everything is clean, I can just pick out the exact clothes I want to take with me on the trip. It will be completely easy!
Of course, I’m not leaving for another 18 hours, so I have plenty more time to procrastinate! (Example: this post.)
tags: laundry, packing, procrastination, random, travel
April 9th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Have fun… we’ll miss you… and don’t worry, we’ll be procrastinating doing your work too. :)
April 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I was terribly sympathetic until a little bird told me what cool stuff you’re doing. Now….as I’m slaving over a grad school assignment…not so much. xo
April 9th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hurray for procrastination support! :)
And yeah, it’s a mini-vacation trip, Star, not a business trip.