procrasturbation

Funny comment on Ernie's post about trying to unplug:

Procrasturbation, n. – Wasting time by doing a less onerous task. Particularly popular with freelancers and those who “work from home”. Example: rather than doing my taxes, i decided to finally do last year’s spring cleaning.

This got me thinking about my favorite ways to procrasturbate from particular things—I tend to answer my email backlog when I don't want to work (but would feel too guilty browsing Flickr or Facebook), and when I don't want to put away the clothes on my floor I usually take the trash out and sort the recycling. Actually, I've already worked out how to make procrasturbation work for me: I hate running so much that getting a treadmill would probably drastically improve both my productivity and my room's tidiness. Alas, no space in my old school tenement apartment...