Wasting that day off…
If I’ve learned one thing it’s that I’m completely worthless on my days off. No really. Totally worthless. I sleep half the day. Read books another quarter of the day. And spend the last of it lazing around on the sofa with Disney channel on thinking about how badly I might need to take a nap.
Perhaps it is a consequence of little sleep and an insanely busy life during the week, but I just cannot motivate myself to work on those days when I am not adamantly required to do so. And so I don’t.
Ironically, it is during the days that I feel the high pressure of having 3 major research projects due in just a few short weeks that I find that charged up side of me craving to work on my (ahem) non-academic work. It is as though I cannot resist the urge to drown myself in even more work. And often it is in those same moments that I write some of the most brilliant stuff that I have in this brain of mine—okay, well, at least I think it is brilliant.
You would think I might apply myself and pass some of my “free” time (please note quotes around free) working out the meaning of life or at least how Linny is going to get down from that tree, but noooo, I instead wile away the days lounging. Which I did. Yesterday. No, I did not wake up at 3:00 am to venture out into the shopping frenzy. I ventured out briefly in the evening because I needed a new micro SD card for my mp3 player (who would have guessed that I’d be able to fill the sucker up with 2 GB of music, but I did) and a spare memory stick for my camera, but that was it. Dinner. And then back home. To accomplish nothing. Well, in my defense, I did bake (read heat up a frozen Sara Lee pumpkin pie) and edit some of the DVDs for my research project, but that’s a drop in the pond compared to what I should have been doing.
That said, today is a day of work. Else I will not be able to complete the semester. 
So what happens to you on those days when you do not have to do the dirty deed, i.e. drag your hiney off to work? Any other loafers out there? Or am I just to lounge around on the sofa in my jammies all day long with the knowledge that everybody else out there is making progress? 
I’m such a loafer, too. I’ve been off since Wednesday and do you think I did any work this week?
Ha!
Of course not. I want to get work done today so I’m not scramblig tomorrow. And I also need to clean still as well.
And pay my bills.
Being an adult is not fun. At all.
But when I loaf around, I thoroughly enjoy it. It’s only afterwards when I’m working and kicking myself, I ask why did I do this to myself. LOL.
I can’t really sit and do nothing when I have so much to do (re: two midterms, 20-pg lab, etc), so this “break” I did nothing but homework, especially since I stayed on campus. But when I did take timeouts to relax, all I did was sleep or read an HP.
God I love romances. They make me so happy inside.
Ugh! Well, it’s 3:33 and I’ve officially wasted half my day. But that darned novel was so worth it!
And I’m like you, Ely, I really need to get stuff done today so that I’m not scrambling tomorrow…
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I’m a day off loafer too. I always have good intentions but then I stay up late the night before, sleep in way too long and surf channels for hours once I’m awake. For some reason, I get this weird second wind in the late evening when I should be going back to bed except I haven’t even been out of bed for 12 hours. It’s almost like my clock gets off kilter. Not sure how to spell kilter…
Anyway, it’s not just you. I did clean my apartment Thursday but per my usual, I ended up writing between 9 and midnight. Which meant I was even more tired the next day at work. LOL!
Hi, I’m Hellion and I’m a complete and utter loafer. Right now I’m loafing at Susan’s, watching North & South, eating Banoffee pie, and not doing anything of real consequence, like editing my book. No, the time I’ve turned on my computer and I’ve made a nuisance of myself to Susan to hook up to her internet!
I need small regimented amounts of time. I accomplish so much more that way.
I am all for loafing around on a day off is called Pajama Day around here. I love nothing better than to watch TV and catch up on reading without interruption, having to pick up or drop off or basically just leaving the house. I can feel one coming on right now!
Oh hell, I’ve had pajama week, not day, week around here. I’ve been off for a week, and only dressed in regular clothes three times. On Wednesday, I drove to Oxford for my daughter’s appointment with her psoriasis doctor. Thursday night, I went to my sister’s house for Thanskgiving, and Saturday morning, I picked up my grandmother and did our weekly Saturday morning trip to Wal-Mart at 6:30 a.m. to avoid the crowds. That’s it. Oh, and I only applied cosmetics to my face once and that was on Wednesday. I’m not only a loafer, I’m a slug loafer. *hanging head in shame* It’s a good thing that I have enough pajamas for my slugish, loaferish nature.
As Cruella Deville worships furs, I worship pajamas.
Tomorrow I return to the reality of clothes and make-up. I’m so greedy that I want another week off. Now I sound like my teenager, who thoroughly believes that her Thanksgiving break was ruined because she had to share the upstairs with her grandparents for the whole week. They had separate bedrooms. It’s the one bathroom that created conflicts.
Hope all you had a nice Thanksgiving.
But reading and resting are both important things! I don’t think you should feel at all guilty for using your day off that way.
I long for the days when sleeping in was even an option. The days before kids…
Why is it guilt must alway accompany loafing? Last night, I actually told my dh that I loved doing laundry because it was guilt-free tv time.
There’s something wrong with that.
Ha! I’ve spent the whole day today loafing. Okay, well, actually, I did yardwork and took Maggie to Petsmart for a new toy…oh, and I did bills and created a new budget in Quicken and started on my Christmas gifts…
dang! I can’t loaf for trying!
I did sleep until 11… does that count? And I didn’t do laundry like I was supposed to…and I haven’t really moved from my chair since I got home at five-ish.
LOL, Misty Jo! I joked with some friends on Thanksgiving that grad students spend the entire day in pajamas if they don’t have to be in school (teaching or otherwise). And I’m totally loathing going back to work tomorrow. Plus I have so much schoolwork of my own to do…*sigh*
Kudos to everyone who loafed this weekend!!
Smiles,
Élodie