What do you do when you’re supposed to be working?
December 30, 2008
It’s 5:56 AM. I have about 30 minutes left of quiet, do not disturb work time - which is a huge luxury for me, and one worth getting up at unGodly hours for. I just realized, I’ve spent the past 10 minutes looking at a couple of blogs on simplifying home management. What does that say about me? That my heart is drawn to that topic so strongly that it easily overrides the fact that I have a deadline in 48 hours.
So I’m throwing the question out there: What do you read online when you’re supposed to be working, and why?
Posted by Tricia @ 6:24 am in The writing life
Twitter and Facebook!!!! Those are my time wasters. Oh, and my IM. I jsut talk too danged much!!!
December 30th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Job boards - mostly journalistic ones, then the chat rooms that go along with some of them. Then some of the sites that I write for - the garden ones have lots of different time wasting places.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Facebook for me too - and research. Research is a huge time sink for me. I find one interesting thing about my current project, which leads to something else more or less related, which leads off to something completely out in left field….and the next thing I know I’m knee-deep in home management techniques when I should be writing about PHP Security!
December 30th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Hmm…Twitter, genealogy, whatever topic catches my interest, homeschool questions…everything but what I should be doing!
December 30th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Facebook, Writing.com, other blogs, things about decluttering and catching up on the many lists I’m on. Hmm…writing comments on blogs when I’m supposed to be editing, like now, for instance? LOL
I posted yesterday too, first time in a month. Go check it out! http://www.SusanSmithThompson.com
December 31st, 2008 at 7:48 am
My number one procrastinator would have to be the blogs the subscribe to in Bloglines. I think I have about 110 feeds I receive. I’ll find myself saying I’ll just check one and then one more and so on and so on. The other guilty site would be Facebook.
December 31st, 2008 at 11:58 am