Listing 16 Facts About Lists

An amazingly original and zero percent sarcastic idea.

• People like lists
• Lists keep people organized
• Lists help those of us that can’t actually create good sentence flow in a regular paragraph
• You can use a list to write down thoughts without forgetting them
• Bullet points help separate ideas
  • Sub lists create a whole new level of fun
  • Literally
  • But also make you feel so much more organized
  • While helping you clump related tasks
• Lists let you rest your eyes and brain from reading blocks of text
• Its efficient
• And much easier to skim if you’re not committed to reading an entire article
• They help classify the piece of text that appears below
• Poetry

There once was a girl who would list/To ensure her brain would get the gist/Of what she must do/To keep track of school/Or else some homework would be missed

• See?
• Counting makes clickbaiting easy: 10 easy ways to eliminate a body! 17 things he may not be telling you… 6 reasons this sock will change your life!
• Even I’m curious and I made those up
• One word: checking off tasks in a to-do list
• Great for brainstorms
  • To help you realize what might be a glorious idea in your head but fall flat on paper
    • Get it, flat, because paper is 2D
      • When you discover you can continue subheading forever
        • But then get annoyed when the length of a line becomes too short
          • It’s your own fault, sister
• Not needing to come up with a conclusion

Free Time…

…and how I waste it.

I lead a fairly busy life. I’m in a demanding program at university, have a part-time job, am active in my church and sometimes, occasionally, hang out with friends. A lot of my time is spent either commuting or just otherwise not being at home. Which is great, I love doing all the things that I’m involved in right now. The thing is, when I get time to myself, it just goes to waste. It’s just sad watching me create a trainwreck for myself.

It seems like I only get things done when it’s most definitely the last minute. Even things I enjoy I put off. Like I can be home for the day and have just 3 chores to have finished by the time my mom comes home yet every single time, it’ll be an hour before and I’m scrambling to multi-task all three or at least make it look like I’ve put in the effort to have them done. And I say I’ll do the easy peasy assignments as soon as I get home just to get them over with, y’know? But, of course, it’s either really late at night or the morning of when I start it. What is wrong with me?

I’ve tried many tricks like rewarding myself for getting specific tasks done but I just rebel against myself and get the reward even though I don’t deserve it. I attempt to strategize by making lists and numbering them off in order off importance but this only makes a dent if I make a million and three items to check off by breaking all the steps down into microsteps. I even do the classic pretend-it’s-due-earlier-than-it-actually-is trick which works surprisingly well. Like if I say I need everything done after the weekend, magically it will all get done and I’ll have some extra time to waste later on. This way, I still feel like I need to finish the work so the last minute panic is there egging me on. But a lot of the time my brain can see through the lies and knows I don’t actually need to have it done and so I don’t even though I have all the time in the world.

It’s a real dilemma and I shall try my best to completely eradicate this habit for my next semester of university by we all know that’s not going to happen. Oh well. Slowly but surely making progress? Hopefully.

Forever Yours,

Karen