Another Me List (in single words)

Now this one I borrowed from bgiogirl:

1. Yourself: reading
2. Your spouse: sleeping
3. Your hair: messy
4. Your mother: sweet
5. Your father: gruff
6. Your favorite item: surfboard
7. Your dream last night: n/a
8. Your favorite drink: Strongbow
9. Your dream car: Audi TT
10. The room you are in: office
11. Your ex: stalker
12. Your fear: vomit
13. What you want to be in 10 years: happy
14. Who you hung out with last night: E, C, C, R, N, & J
15. What you're not: serene
16. Muffins: banana or pumpkin
17: One of your wish list items: Maui trip
18: Time: 11:11
19. The last thing you did: laundry
20. What you're wearing: lululemon
21. Your favorite weather: Hawaii’s
22. Your favorite book: thriller
23. The last thing you ate: cereal
24. Your life: stagnant
25. Your mood: distracted
26. Your best friend(s): supportive
27. What you're thinking about right now: reading
28. Your car: Honda
29. What you're doing at the moment: procrastinating
30. Your summer: busy
31. Your relationship status: forever
32. What's on TV: nothing
33. The weather: chilly
34. The last time you laughed: last night a drunken C telling a story about getting hit with a squash ball

Firsts & Lasts

This fun list is borrowed from my good friend Word Nerd:

Firsts

First best friend: Allison Wells
First break-up: Clark Palmer (after third-grade marriage on the playground bridge)
First screen name: Psych-O By Now
First Self-purchased album: Tom Cochrane
First funeral: in the same day: my favorite aunt and my friend RJ
First pets: Missy - a very sweet mutt that I got in first grade
First piercing/tattoo: piercing = tongue on my cousin’s 18th birthday, so I was 16 tattoo = kanji symbol in Maui about 6 years ago

Lasts

Last car ride: on the way home from watching the hockey game at a bar downtown last night
Last good cry: during Grey’s Anatomy 2 weeks ago
Last movie seen: The Departed
Last beverage drank: coffee- as we speak
Last food consumed: Cream of Wheat cereal
Last phone call: my friend E called last night to confirm plans for the game
Last time showered: yesterday morning (soon to be right now!)
Last shoes worn: puma running shoes
Last item bought: Strongbow and Nachos
Last annoyance: an itinerary change from Air Canada
Last time wanting to die: many times this week when I have felt overwhelmed with things.

My newest procrastination tool...bah!

It has happened again, an unmentionable first-year Master's student in our area group talked me into joining Facebook, and now I am addicted - seriously I could spend hours looking for my friends from High School, Junior High, and Elementary School, not to mention all of those whom I did my Bachelor's and Master's with. Thanks a lot J-Dogg! My advice to you: don't get involved.

Ten Things I Need to do This Week That Will Make Me Crazier Than I Already Am

OK it is definitely time for another list, one that corresponds nicely to the list I carry around in my notebook titled "Psych-O's Giant, Never ending, Continuous, To Do List"

1. Write paper for Consumer Behaviour class
2. Do ugly TA marking (ethics forms - lots of them!)
3. Decide on paper topic for Motivation seminar - start writing
4. Do reading for all 3 classes
5. Get the first publication off of my Master's thesis out the door
6. Find article to present in Motivation seminar
7. Write my WAIS-III report for Assessment class
8. Enter class grades to date
9. Try not to pull all of my hair out
10. Try to make trip to rival city next weekend to see best friend's new house - well she moved in over a year ago but it is still new to me a "delinquent visitor"

Well I guess that is enough for this week. Happy third week in February to all!!!

Procrastination...My own personal demon

I found this the other day and have seen Piers talk at numerous conferences (he is a meta-analytic genius!!!)

CNN News reports:

After 10 years of research on a project that was supposed to take only five years, a Canadian industrial psychologist found in a giant study that not only is procrastination on the rise, it makes people poorer, fatter and unhappier.Something has to be done about it, sooner rather than later, University of Calgary professor Piers Steel concludes. His 30-page study is in this month’s peer-reviewed Psychological Bulletin, published by the American Psychological Association.

In 1978, only about 5 percent of the American public thought of themselves as chronic procrastinators. Now it’s 26 percent, Steel said. Men are worse than women (about 54 out of 100 chronic procrastinators are men) and the young are more like to procrastinate than the old. Chronic procrastination also affects productivity in the workplace. As to why people procrastinate, Steel thinks it is due to the various distractions of modern living, like cell phones, iPods, video games and the Internet.

Studying procrastination as a field has a benefit, said the professor. The more he knows about the problem and the causes, the less he procrastinates — even though he sheepishly acknowledges his study was completed five years late. The good thing about studying procrastination, he said: “If you take a day off from it, you can always say it’s field research.”


Check it out at: http://www.procrastinus.com/