Children: do not do as I do

I took some work home with me 2 Wednesdays ago.  All I had to do was draft up a quick paper.  I thought on  that Wednesday, "I'll just do this tonight when all is quiet, and get it out of the way."

Instead I did the following, sometimes more than once:

• knitted scarf;
• painted nails (necessary to test 4 different colours - this takes some time);
• shopped;
• did a Where's Wally 250-piece puzzle to determine which piece is missing;
• found Wally;
• engaged in Mighty Beanz warfare with children;
• looked for Mighty Beanz;
• spent the entire afternoon travelling up and down the same small section of track on the Silverstream Steam Railway;
• made sushi in various permutations.

I realised with a sinking heart this evening that this paper is due to the Minister's office tomorrow, so I reluctantly sat down to do it.  10 days of procrastination....it took me 15 minutes.

I feel I should hang my head in shame.