As an Olympic-caliber time waster, I can certainly do this. Here are favorite ways to let the time pass me by.
- Infosnacking. Netsurfing. Whatever you call it. If it’s on the web, I can find it.
- Bookstore browsing. Time just flies by.
- Palm games. Crazy Daisy and Bejeweled, usually, with occasional forays into Bookworm.
- Reading organizational books. So much more satisfying than actual organizing, since you can create the Plato’s cave version of your lovely home without all that messy work.
- Reading. Anything. I will reread books I’ve read multiple times instead of something I ought to be doing, like cleaning.
- Microcleaning. Not the big stuff, like Mt. Washmore or the shower, but that little niggling area of the desk that annoys only me. Plus, I make a bigger mess while doing it than originally existed.
- Cuddling. Actually, this is time well spent. But sprawling on the sofa draped with a kid prevents you from doing so much more.
- Movies. We have many, many DVDs. Amazing how many of them I can practically recite from memory, but watch again anyhow.
- Blogging. See, I should be grading papers right now, but…
- Leaving things unfinishe…
I’m with you on all of them except the palm games. I’d replace it with pampering my puppies. (Okay — elderly dogs, whatever….)