I'm honestly impressed by your ability to multi-task! I told myself I was going to do the same thing with my paper, but I ended up just powering through it once I left.
While it may seem, at first glance, that teachers give papers as "busywork" - at the end of the year, at the end of degree or high school certificate or whatever, the thing you'll remember is what you researched for your own papers even 100 years after high school is over. (Note shameless plug, or I should say plog - a blog-plug)
To be honest I'm at the point with submissions where the less I care/agonize about each one, the better, and it also all feels soulless and vaguely like begging for gods to come down and kick me in the ribcage, so it's better if I am doing something fun at the same time, even if it takes me more time to send out a submission.
So I wasn't editing at all, I was skimming magazines and trying to figure out which poems might fit where best, but beyond that it was a lot of copy/pasting and reiterating my same general cover letter when necessary. If I was editing I don't think I would have been nearly so conversant.
I also stayed pretty focused on just the back and forth between lil and me so that probably was part of it.
I just hate submissions and need to do more of them anyway. shrug