54. You spend countless hours organizing and re-organizing your notes
55. You spend more hours organizing DeGeer's notes after each new addendum to his blasted study guide
56. You write an email to your small group planning a christmas party detailing the ways the elephant gift exchange is to be played
57. You decide to go out for breakfast
58. You check to see if any more grades are posted
59. You water your Christmas tree just to make sure it doesn't get dry
60. You change study locations and hope that helps ignoring the reality of time wasted by doing that

47. You organize all the notes in your office, even if they don't relate to your upcoming finals at all.
48. You clean the kitchen... need I say more.
49. You get up much later than you normally would, preferring to hide under the covers pretending to sleep, rather than get up and spend the day studying.
50. You keep suggesting to your husband that a walk for coffee would be a nice break.
51. The barking of the neighbor's dog is enthralling.
52. You keep getting up to get a few stale mini marshmallows from the kitchen.
53. Your husband walks in the room and discovers you adding to your blog and obviously NOT studying, despite your explanation that this is all part of your master plan.

40. You decide that NOW is the time to finally punch holes in all the papers you have accumulated over the trimester and file them properly
41. You watch a recording of the Colbert Report from the night before
42. You hunt around for a new Simpson's Quotes application for your facebook page, because the old one doesn't seem to work anymore.
43. You search through the Simpson's Quotes database for a quote to put on your facebook page
44. You shop around Office Max for fancy highlighters to make your studying more efficient, only decide in the end not to buy any until next trimester because you are too broke
45. You keep going to the kitchen to look for snacks that you know aren't there
46. You keep going to the bathroom for longer than is strictly necessary because you hid a book in the closet that is more interesting than your notes

34. You spend an hour printing a tree of material you most likely won't even have time to look at
35. You decide that taking a shower in the middle of the day is a good idea
36. You "study" by making sure all of your notes match all the material covered- helpful maybe but still not learning a thing
37. You decide that now is a good time to call maintenance about your malfunctioning toilet even though it most likely couldn't been put off until break
38. You whine...a lot
39. You decide to leave your home and go to a new environment to study

New Trimester, New procrastinations - and we've only just begun

29. all your new textbooks are sitting in a stack, still wrapped in plastic
30. you decide today is a good day to finally watch the Aristocats
31. you consider moving all your furniture so you can clean underneath
32. your kitty actually tries to get away from you for petting her for so long
33. you spend an hour at the cell phone store asking questions about a phone you aren't going to buy

One more exam this tri, so one more list

22. you clean up the mess from the upstairs neighbor's bathroom flood into your bathroom (almost on your head)
23. you suggest a sushi/birthday lunch with your friend
24. you try on several shirts to wear under your sweatshirt, even though no one will ever see them, just to see which is the most comfortable
25. you go to your friend's surprise birthday party
26. you create a new blog, this time for the procrastination list
27. you play with your husband's new cell phone
28. you shop for fruit

How it all began

You know you are procrastinating studying when.....

1. you change the kitty litter and sanitize the floor all around it even though you are sick
2. you go out the the grocery store twice
3. you try on old clothes
4. you watch strange tv you wouldn't usually watch
5. you clean the kitchen (that one was just to get you started, mine is still awaiting my next moment of avoidance tonight)
6. you make a list of all the things you are doing to avoid studying and email it to your procrastinating friend
   (Hanna)
   
   
7. you organize all the notes from the exam you just took just so your space is "clean"
8. you then organize all the notes you need for the exam you should be studying for
9. you check iqweb to see if grades are posted
10. you gchat with as many people as possible to avoid actually studying
11. you decide that today is a good time to check facebook even though you haven't checked in in over a month
12. you check iqweb again to see if grades are posted
13. you make a list of the things you want to do/read over break
14. you continue the list your friend started as a last stitch effort to avoid studying
    (Keeley)
    
    
15. you look up the phrase "last stitch effort" worried that for years you were saying it wrong (because you thought it was "last ditch effort")
16. you check and recheck your pathology grade, looking for errors
17. you unload and load the dishwasher even though you don't need any dishes and you are really really behind on studying
18. you check your final grades to make you feel smart
19. you read your sister's haiku's and decide that you need to start a haiku blog
20. you go online and start a blog entitled "Haiku's Are Fun"
21. you keep working on that list of things to do to avoid studying
    (Hanna)