Actually, I like outlining as it keeps me from too many false starts. Not that I do as much of it as I used to. I tend to just walk around thinking about a story for a while nowadays. But I've never found it a chore--more of a creative mind experiment. Though it does keep me from the difficult task: getting the words right on the page. Nothing annoys me more to find that the words themselves aren't bad, but useless because I didn't conceptualize the story first in my head, and staring at a short list sometimes does just that. :)