Procrastination #793

The last couple of days I've gotten up in the morning to find that my head is not at all where it needs to be. Assuming it needs to be sitting in front of the computer meeting deadlines... which it does. But sometimes I get these bright ideas. Like this morning, it felt like a good morning to see how many people could I ask to be "friends" on Facebook. (I found 7, and 3 have already responded positively, thank you very much.) Facebook made me think of MySpace, of course, so I had to go see how my "friends" on MySpace are doing. Then I had to check in on the Xanganites and blog friends in general, of course.

This connected world is a curse and a blessing, I swear.

Eventually my kids were up and wandering around the kitchen so I got another bright idea. How about I spend the morning with them and go back to deal with my deadlines later in the day? Late afternoon, perhaps, or evening. Yeah, right!

Maybe it is this summer weather contributing to my monkey mind. I've been contemplating things like spring cleaning (getting kind of late for that, no?). My stack of important stuffs on my desk is populated with household fix-it lists, 4-H projects, and a list of other fun summer distractions the kids and I have been concocting.

The afternoon came and went with an oil change for the car, a failed attempt to get the net up on the trampoline, and a trip to the vet for the dog. Talk about burning through a day.

It's now about the time I usually start thinking seriously about bed and that deadline (which is tomorrow!) remains untouched. The internal debate begins. Do I struggle with it in these evening hours which tend not to be my best? Do I get a good night's sleep and let the adrenalin of a final deadline bring me across the finish line?

Maybe I'll just check my email one last time and call it a night.