The vast majority of my work in junior high and high school counted as useless and time-consuming; I don't even remember what topped all the other horrible things I had to do, because my mind has blocked out about 99% of my public school memories in a desperate gambit to save my sanity. And the risk of uncovering those memories is exactly why I can never drop acid, or eat mescaline. I shall never hear Hendrix the way he was intended, and it is all because of busy work.