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Things I Have Done Today in an Effort to Avoid Doing Homework:

  • Watched the last two episodes of the previous season of House, M.D.
  • Cried a lot at the last episode of the previous season of House, M.D.
  • Laughed away the tears by watching the first episode of the previous season of South Park
  • Played World of Warcraft for an hour
  • Talked to Nick and Sean on Skype
  • Read through a year's worth of Sarah Brown's archives
  • Took and deleted twenty horrible pictures of my dog with my new cell phone (Hey, phones have cameras now? Rad!)
  • Marched seven loads of laundry from my room to the family room
  • Changed the sheets on my bed for the first time in please don't make me actually tell you that detail
  • Cleaned Timmy Venture's fish bowl for the first time in almost two months
  • Painted my fingernails and toenails
  • Wrote and deleted three other bulleted lists of blog material
  • Took an inventory of bathroom supplies and put body wash and shampoo on the shopping list
  • Read a few pages in Moby-Dick
  • Practiced my Scaryskirts face in the mirror
  • Talked myself into quitting my job this week
  • Talked myself out of quitting my job this week
  • Sorted my trash into the correct recycling bins
  • Brushed my hair
  • Brushed my hair again

See, Mom? I totally did stuff today.