Tuneful Procrastination.

What deadline?

I'll organize my closet by color and style, purge old papers, make spaghetti sauce, schedule social dates and re-read a favorite book when a deadline looms but the muse is MIA.

Those who write know that procrastination is as intgeral to the process as the writing itself.

So says singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega in her playlist of tunes to procrastinate by published in the New York Times.

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/living-with-music-a-playlist-by-suzanne-vega/