Procrastinating....

So, my friend Nadine is evil and told me about this British TV show called "Black Books" and I am scarily addicted. THANK GOD it was only three seasons or else I will never get my last chapter written. The main character is a drunken bookshop owner who is a complete curmudgeon (I think I spelled that correctly....) and hates customers, bookkeeping, and well pretty much anything that involves running his shop. In the first episode he realizes his accountant is a fugitive and that he has to do his accounts himself. Hilarity ensues (I can't believe I just wrote "hilarity ensues," how can you tell I'm in the middle of writing a boring thesis....) when he finds as many ways as possible to put off doing the accounts. These include, pairing his socks, talking to door-to-door evangelists, and, my personal favourite, making a jacket out of the paperwork. So, it got me thinking of all the ways I managed to procrastinate this week, being partial to what my supervisor terms "creative procrastination," better known as, in the words of one of my favourite profs, "clerical foreplay...."

1. updating this blog (why else would a sixth-year PhD student have a blog if not to procrastinate under the guise of keeping her friends and relatives updated on her life)
2. researching flights to Robin Hood Airport (giggle... I love saying that)
3. watching episodes of Black Book (thanks Nadine, I will get you back.....)
4. culling my ugly t-shirt collection
5. knitting a hat for my friend Kay when she didn't ask for one (well, she does need something to go with the really cool mittens I spent a year knitting her)
6. baking chocolate chip cookies
7. reading eighteenth-century pamphlets online that have nothing to do with my thesis because they may provide context... (because the ones I don't have to read are so much more interesting than the ones I do have to read even if they are about the same rebellion)
8. googling myself (nothing new or interesting....)
9. breaking my reality tv ban and watching America's Next Top Model and The Search for the New Doll and then complaining to my friend Laura that the women are airheads (why I was surprised I will never know)
10. researching banoffee pie recipes because I have a craving and then e-mailing my friend Jen the easiest recipe that I found (because she may have a banoffee pie emergency one of these days...)

I should stop there and actually write. I have actually done some writing this week, really I have, but if I mention making myself a new jacket, worry.