I’ve been keeping myself entertained recently by playing various games. 
At school I play games such as hide-the-pingpong-rackets-and-balls-that-weren’t-put-away-properly, Fabula (I’ll explain below), and a homemade vocabulary game. At home I play wash-the-dishes, Total War: Shogun 2, and Minecraft. I also alpha test Antilia on Sunday, if I have time, and my former roommates are hoping to get an intercontinental Dungeons and Dragons campaign going.
Sometimes I play the computer games on my list because I need to do something that doesn’t require the sort of thinking I’ve had to do at work or because I have time for a little relaxation. And other times I play them because it’s the weekend and my students’ stories make me want to curl up in a corner and cry, which is not the mood I want to be in for the whole weekend; it’s a way to cleanse my mind of the plot, formating, and grammatical horrors I encountered or build up my fun reserves before I march, pen in paw, against the paper giants.
But rather than just tell you that I play these games and leave it at that, I’ll tell you about them and why I enjoy them.
I’ve come to realize that my self-motivation can only take me so far, especially when I have no definite timeline to work with.