Do you procrastinate?

Now I know this is completely off topic, but gimme a break, I'm procrastinating here. I was looking for a new wallet (after mine got stolen) at a flea market in the Bronx yesterday. After finding a nice plain black one (in a sea of special designer limited edition "GK Galvin Klein" wallets - only five dollars) I notice that the wallet I just bought has a fake cardboard credit card in it that says "Fritz Wollner" on it. I can't do work anymore. I have The Fear.

i just finally finished the first draft of the tolkien piece an hour ago so no, i don't procrastinate: it took me seven months, and the end is still rub

I've found that I procrastinate even better when I measure my life out in song lengths (ie "I'll do the assignment after this album is finished playing", "I'll wake up after this song is over" - it never works)

(I'm procrastinating again!! do you SEE?!)

I'll do this, but of course I just end thinking "well, one more song after this and then I'll work on my assignment" -- and then end up hours later falling asleep yet still desperately trying to finish said assignment in the space of one hour.

That has 'hit home' i suppose.

Remember when I offered to write the new forum software? And what happened to that idea? (Graham saw the pitiful mess that I cobbled together)

I am a horrible procrastinator. I have been back to school for three days and I haven't picked classes. Or called my parents. Or finished the website I am working on. I tend to even put off procrastination itself by sleeping.

Even this post is three days late...

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Even this post is three days late...

-- Simeon (simeonbradshaw@...), March 4th, 2003

Woohoo! You've won!

Hmmm... I think I'll go to the bathroom, maybe get a glass of water, and organize my desk and THEN maybe just maybe get some work done...

Also, at home I can sit, almost paralysed in my seat, knowing Ive things to do but not wanting to even bother getting up to do them. Stupid thing is once I'm doing something (housework or whatever) I'm fine, its just the getting-to. Whay causes this shit? I never do anything anymore :(

I don't think I will stop feeling guilty about Not Doing Things until every second of my day is filled with improving activity. Ie. never.

i've got most of it done, but i can't concentrate today.

I have about 400 words done. I've read alot though, and am reading alot. I'm meeting the lecturer tomorrow, I arranged a meeting so I'd have to do work.

At the moment I swing between being terrified about having nothing done and being really in trouble, with 2 weeks to go to hand it in, or feeling confident that I am doing ok and it'll be good.

I don't know. I think it'll be fine, in the end. I just want to get this crap over with and get on with my life!

I used to think about going for a Ph.D someday, but the dream is over. I have a real problem with lengthy papers that are due at least 3 weeks in the future. I can't even get started. Or applying for internships for the coming summer, even though the applications are all due this month. I need some sort of interim assignment that ensures that I'm actually making some sort of progress. Someone slap me out of this, please.

Maybe you just really don't want to do it.

well with the getting started on lengthy papers thing, my best advice is to do the paper first without all the research *then* go back and edit it and do you research to make it good. that way you get most of the junk out of your head that you already know and you'll find out exactly what you need to research. plus its kinda fun knowingly writing a really shitty essay/paper.

i dont know how you could apply this to applying for things tho.

do i ever.

I've recently come to think that "I'm too much of a procrastinator" is a really absurd excuse not to take something on. It's almost like not going to the gym because you're out of shape.

I think my problem is my house. The records, the kitchen, magazines everywhere, the TV. I get a thousand times more work done in the library. but, after spending all day in a library working my ass off for a week straight, I also want to die.

Actually, the main distraction (internet, duh) is present both in the home and the library. The difference is that when I'm at the library I irrationally convince myself that the people sitting near me would notice if I was spending hours goofing around instead of doing work/research, which keeps me in line. I mean, if I were at the library right now I wouldn't have just completely wasted 3 minutes of my life watching a Mick Jagger video on youtube. good lord.

I've been meaning to click on this thread for a couple hours, but I just now got around to it.

http://www.blogut.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/yukyuks.jpg

Procrastination is magic.

Lazy people and procrastinators such as myself do not start wars or run into public places and shoot up people. "Work ethics", generally speaking, are overrated.

By that, I mean, I wouldn't want a world full of "lazy" EMT's, but, on the other hand, I have a feeling that no one ever accused Dick Cheney of laziness. Intellectual laziness, perhaps, but...you get the idea.

I've taken a "leave of absence" from college and dropped two classes (different semesters) because I was too far behind on my work, I've skipped tons of concerts or opportunities to hang out with my friends because I decided it would be a better idea to spend hours reading bullshit on ILX instead of doing my work, I've never really had a part time job or done extra-curricular activities, partly cause I felt like I didn't have the time. Procrastination isn't responsible for all of that but for me it's still kind of moved past "lol charming vice" and into "wow I am totally fucking up my life."

didn't I read somewhere that Cheney was a shitty student?

Also Bush is lazy as fuck although that doesn't mean he procrastinates

Kenan stole my thunder.

eh, I guess I was misunderremembering things:

When Richard Bruce Cheney was a student at Natrona County High School in Casper, Wyo., he was a solid football player, senior-class president and an above-average student. But he wasn't the star. That distinction belonged to Lynne Vincent, Cheney's girlfriend and future wife. A straight-A scholar, Lynne was elected Mustang Queen, the equivalent of most popular girl.

do i ever.

-- s1ocki, Friday, February 15, 2008 3:59 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

31g thats not procrastination, thats an anxiety disorder masquerading itself as a personality trait

didn't I read somewhere that Cheney was a shitty student?

Yeah, that rings true, actually. Or maybe I am just thinking of when Lynne Cheney was on the Daily Show a couple of years ago and she tried to make him out to be some high-school badass.

Bush is a coaster, through and through.

there is a vast ocean between being lazy and being an incorrigible procrastinator

procastination is the suspense movie version of the Puritan work ethic.

If anyone cures all 31g's problems on this thread let me know to come and read it so I can unfuck my life without having to admit that I'm exactly the same, right? Right.

(I really hoped this would stop after I dropped out, or after I by some miracle found a better job than the shitty job I hated but fell into when nobody else would employ a dropout like me, but no, I somehow lucked into a job I ought to like for people I actually respect now and I'm still being a timewasting jerkoff who gets paralysed by any task which would take more than a single simple 5-minute step to complete)

enlist in the marines.

95% of my procrastination stems from just not caring enough (the rest is fear). i've had a half finished album sitting there for over a year now and if i thought the world gave enough of a toss to make it worthwhile i'd probably finish it really quickly..

lazy = eh, I don't feel like doing work
procrastination = fuck it, I don't care if it's friday night, I'm going to get some work done...this case is really challenging to read - I'll just check that "white people food" thread one more time...ok I'm going to really concentrate...this is tricky...haha "Olive Garden"

I work hard at my job so I can be lazy. If that makes sense.

maybe mine is really more ADD than procrastination

I work hard at my job so I can be lazy. If that makes sense.

EXACTLY.

I come in on shift and bust out pretty much all my daily responsibilities in the first hour and a half. the rest of the day is banning you people and deleting threads and waiting for some real shit to come across the wire.

lack of motivation != lack of ambition

Tombot, you wise wise man. I knew I wasn't alone.

I'm not as devout as you two, but on a good day that is exactly what I do. I'm better in the morning, anyway. Aren't most people?

ack!

Normally I do my work at maximum efficiency BECAUSE when it's done I can go back to goofing around on the intertubes. But in the case of the job I'm stalling on right now, it's a one-off that I'm not sure I'm getting "right." I suppose if I plead unsure understanding to my supervisor, he might accept me doing a half-assed job now, and then improving it this week?

Will go back to work when I bump this thread...three...two...one...GO!