The Waiting Game
OK, I'll admit it... I'm not the best waiter in the world.
I'm most comfortable moving right along, getting things done and feeling like I'm making progress even if I'm not doing a lot of really important stuff. I like cleaning up the House - it's not the most exciting thing, but it beats being bored. Don't get me wrong, there's a time for relaxing and I wish I had more 'down' time, but while I'm at work, I'd rather be busy.
If I'm not busy, I think about all the time I could be spending on another activity, project, thing, that I could be working on. It's almost like I'm trapped - I can't leave work and I can't do anything other than work at work. When there's nothing to do, it leaves large gaps in the day and those are pretty hard to fill.
Sure, I can catch up on a little surfing, but that's not something I'm going to do for hours on end - I just don't have that much fun following links. I could read a book, but that's a little obvious, and I don't want the folks I work with to think "Hey! Why does he get to do that and I have to slug it out!" Well... the answer is clear - I've gotten everything done that I can do and I'm waiting for others to complete their work before I can move on. But that's still a confrontation that I'd rather avoid if at all possible.
So I wait.
In the end, things will pick up but until then, it's a painful thing
to do.