I’m the sort of procrastinator who avoids tasks because I will obsess over them until I am consumed by them. I have a trip in three weeks, and I want to start packing right now so that there’s time to shop for anything we might need but don’t realize we don’t have, but I also know that I’ll be doing laundry the night before we are set to leave because I always forget that one thing.

My wife will pack a few days in advance, and will pack the clothes she has clean. Maybe there will be one load of laundry to wash the one thing she knows she wants to bring but she knows it is dirty and knows exactly where it is. She will do that load of laundry three days before we leave. She’s like some kind of sorcerer.