A Taxonomy of Procrastination
Type 1: Constructive procrastination
Definition: When you have a number of necessary tasks to do, one far more urgent than the rest, tackle the less urgent tasks first.
Example: Vacuuming your dorm room or doing laundry instead of working on your term paper, which you have to hand in the next day; tackling the spring ( Read more... )

Thursday: The Day of BaseballHighlights of the day: Singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch at real actual Wrigley Field; spotting boxed "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards" PC game in awesome retro gaming store ( Read more... )

Never mind. LJ ate the whole thing this morning. ::fume::

(Photo of place we meant to hike in again this summer, but didn't because of weather forecast ( Read more... )

For my own reference as much as anyone else's, a list of some of my favourite parenting-related websites and blogs (in no particular order):

Discipline & Behavior on AskDrSears.com. I'm not as uncritical a fan of William Sears as I used to be, but he remains one of my favourite "parenting experts" (on the understanding that no expert is right ( Read more... )

In belated honour of that whole Oscar deal ...

5 favourite Hitchcock flicks:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Rear Window (1954)

5 movies that are probably, objectively speaking, really terrible, but I love them anyway:
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Real Genius (1985 ( Read more... )

Meme ganked fromjimhines.

1 year ago ... I was seriously considering quitting my job because it seemed as though every possible thing was going wrong. I started a new writing project (which I’m afraid I’m still working on now - prolific, I’m not). SP was halfway through Senior Kindergarten and was taking ballet lessons. My sister and I were starting to ( Read more... )

1. Nobody expects me to wear ‘business attire,’ makeup, or dress shoes to the office every day ( Read more... )

A [fantastically dull] vignette from my evening:

1. Open fridge to try to discover source of greenish water that keeps turning up on floor in front of fridge. Notice measuring-cup full of grated zucchini, placed there on Tuesday night in anticipation of zucchini loaf which I then did not bake either that night or the following night.

2. Decide to ( Read more... )

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