I could write a book about procrastinating but I'd probably never finish it

today i procrastinated and wasted time for approximately eleven hours, How is that possible you might say (or if your on facebook you might not) the thing is the internet has made it quite easy to waste your time and ignore the world around you while at the same time proclaiming to keep you in touch with the world around you. I get confused. i get sucked in. Oooooh jaime ran 20 miles ( i sat on my ass), casey went on four auditions and booked a commercial ( i should keep writing) sarah had 3 children and sent them all to college, john bought a boat...what did you do?

Uhm.... nothing. I did nothing. I read about what you did. I sat in front of my computer and said "I am going to write today" "just for an hour!" thats it! i tell myself only an hour. a day has like 16 of those, so go get em! But No. No. I read email, sure thats easy. facebooked and know things about people that I haven't talked to in twenty years and probably will never actually see in real life. i watched silly things on you tube. I checked the weather, the movie times, the movie reviews and of course the movie gossip, I checked the news but because its depressing I just scrolled headlines but that only takes like an hour- gaurdian, bbc, cnn, msnbc, nyt, lat, wt, all those papers that aren't in paper really. and occasionally a conspiracy theory site for the heck of it. I thought hell Im getting nothing done. so on with life ill be productive Its sunny I will leave the house, maybe get a bike ride in, but no. it was not in the cards, see it looked like it could rain. not rain right away, rain, but like maybe in a few hours when i was far from home if i actually chose to go outside. besides, the sun wasn't quite as bright as it was at 11 am there's a cloud, who wants to leave the house if a cloud is going to bother putting a blight on your day. so i went to the store to drop off a prescription which I didn't have the time to wait for and also i didnt have the time to return later to pick it up - I am busy, I have writing to do and maybe if it gets nice, a bike ride, maybe. but since i was there i bought toothpaste, which i didnt need, and a toothbrush that spins its bristles and that I also didn't need. but it was on sale. then I came home and tested my new toothbrush which was quite fancy and useless and I thought huh floss, yeah i should do that at 3 pm cause i should do it more often you cant really actually floss enough according to most dental offices. then I whitened because that takes twenty minutes. but then i realized i was just bored I was even bored of procrastinating - it takes a lot out of you, so i went for a cup of coffee. i like coffee and nothing gives a hard day of procrastinating a boost of useless energy like caffeine. then I filed my nails because they could use pampering - i guess, or maybe it was that one that was sort of broken and pointy and i scratched myself with earlier that made me want to do it - I stopped short of painting them as that would have crossed a line into obvious productivity. i ate a cookie. just one. trying to make the day last. so I will have another later (oh and i did) I went back to the computer it was 5 so i called some people I hadn't talked to in awhile (well since yesterday) cause it had to be done. its part of the protocol and finally I'd had it, so i watched reruns of tv shows I've already seen so it was really easy to predict who did it and how and why and it was really satisfying to know the answers ahead of the characters. and now Im sitting here rechecking all the things i did this morning-cause anything could have happened on facebook by now and maybe someone has sent me a wink on some dating web site that i can ignore and maybe i got an email from a real person instead of just the usual 90 spam emails, and the weather has definitely changed since it finally did rain. im exhausted! so instead of actually writing and sitting down to work on that script for one hour i managed to do nothing at all and its midnight! amazing! well i'm off to bed (right after i check this one thing....