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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.