Normally we think of tasks as the things to get over with so we can relax, but the things to get over with are your life as much as anything else. And the only reason one is not relaxing into them is the idea the list-maker itself who decrees some things as work and some things as relaxing.

And no matter what you do you can never get the list-maker to cross itself off the list because it is the thing that does the crossing off.