Professional Procrastinator

If there's one thing I'm absolutely a pro at, it's procrastinating.  I had an obscene amount of homework to get done today (six lesson plans - 4 for a project and 2 for my fourth graders - and other homework as well).  I know myself, and I know that when I'm on the computer, I'm on facebook.  Being on facebook is not exactly being productive, so I needed a way to avoid facebook while still being able to be online to do research for my lessons and to be on the website I have to type my lessons up on.

Since I use Google Chrome, I added on an extension called Stay Focused, thinking that surely this would make a world of difference to me.  I was certain that I would get my lessons done without the distraction of facebook.  I set it to block facebook for me for two hours, with no doubt in my mind that I would be unbelievably productive during those two hours.

Nope.

As soon as I realized I couldn't get on facebook, I got off the computer.  I did laundry.  I made my bed.  I washed dishes.  I read a couple more chapters of What's Left of Me.  I organized the clothes in my closet by color.  I wrote down all of the assignments I have due in November on my whiteboard calendar.  I made a list of the homework I should have been doing.  I went and got a wrap for lunch even though I wasn't hungry.  I laid on my bed and stared up at the ceiling, thinking about the homework I wasn't working on.

Finally the two hours was up.  I went on facebook again.  I looked at the clock.  How was it after 4:30 already?!

Telling myself I had no choice now other than to get those lessons done, I blocked facebook for another four hours.

And got four lesson plans done.

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