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Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
 
I've never really come to terms with how I feel about them. I am definitely (and at this point, unapologetically) a procrastinator. Evidence has shown that I can throw myself into a whirligig of productivity at the last moment in order to meet the particular demands of one. Sometimes I fail. Sometimes I come through. But, the upfront costs of dillydallying, the negative self-talk, and the neurotic inter-looping necessary to navigate those final pre-deadline moments take a pretty horrendous emotional toll.

are they a good thing? I don't think this behavior is.

What causes me more concern and worry is how to deal with those deadlines that are self-imposed?

*rambling*

[ August 05, 2003, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: filetted ]
 
Posted by Feyd Baron (Member # 1407) on :
 
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they fly past." DNA

Feyd Baron, DoC
 
Posted by Procrastination (Member # 4821) on :
 
Ah, I have an acolyte. It's so nice to be loved. [Wave]

Deadlines are a good thing, though. Without deadlines, there would be no such thing as extensions...

...or such popular phrases like...

"It's not due for a while yet."
"I still have plenty of time."
"I can get up early and do it in the morning"

and one of my favorites...

"What time exactly do you need it on that day?"
 
Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
 
spooky!!!

*cowers*
 
Posted by EllenM (Member # 5447) on :
 
filetted, are you procrastinating now? Is there some task calling your name to be done, but you're avoiding the doing by posting?

I'm a cleaner when I'm procrastinate.

EllenM
 
Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
 
EllenM,

yes. many.

I really wish I had that cleaning thing. I'd be living in a palace right now. My mom's got it, but I surely don't. So much for genetics.

flish
 
Posted by EllenM (Member # 5447) on :
 
Sometimes they skip a generation, perhaps you will produce an offspring that will have the gene. Won't that be fun when it [Roll Eyes] at you while it picks up after you.

[No No] Quit procrastinating, it builds character.
 
Posted by Procrastination (Member # 4821) on :
 
Leave the poor boy alone. Without me, there'd be no internet, no message boards, no email... certainly no minesweeper or solitaire... and absolutely no AIM. Hatrack would have no posters at all!

I'm a force of nature.

Granted, I was a little miffed at the "first" deadline... Death had created it to keep me out of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He figured, with me around, the Apocalypse would never come. But I've gotten over it, and deadlines have actually made me a household name.
 
Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
 
procastination

*giggles to my hearts content*

*eyes calendar*

*resumes giggling*

thanks,

flish
 
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
If somebody figures out a solution that doesn't involve discipline and actually getting around to doing the work in a timely manner, I want to know about it. [Big Grin]

There's a magazine editor out there who can vouch for this. She feels I have valuable information and insights in regard to the subscribers and readers of her magazine, but dealing with me is a real pain. No matter how long my article has been discussed and planned, it always comes in at the last minute.

One time, it was going to come in the day after the deadline. She wrote to tell me that it was OK, because the real deadline was something like a week later.

I wrote to her in a panic.

"Never," I wrote, 'under any circumstances ever tell me what the real deadline is ever again!

And she hasn't. [Wink]

(self-edited for spelling)

[ August 06, 2003, 11:03 AM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
 
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
don't know what kind of magazine you write for but it looks like that is a great kernel for writing one on procrastination!
[Smile]
AJ
 
Posted by Laurenz0 (Member # 5336) on :
 
Its very rare to see a person that doesn't procrastinate.

Everybody says that its bad and ends up making your life suck, but i mean, without procrastination, we'd be dead.

Think of all the bacteria that could easily come and kill us all, but their putting that off!
 
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
quote:
don't know what kind of magazine you write for but it looks like that is a great kernel for writing one on procrastination!

I don't write for the magazine on a regular basis. I basically end up with articles in it between two and three times per year. Since most of the other stories have dealt with issues important to her readership, she was willing to hang in with the painful process of waiting for me to turn my stuff in. (the pain is somewhat lessened in that I am less likely than most others she deals with to get upset about her editorial scalpel - my articles are always the better for her surgery.)

Dunno - I'm not primarily a writer. It's just one of the tools I use to get my main job done. OTOH, it would be kind of nice to write something that was actually fun for a change - and totally unexpected coming from me. I'd probably have to do it on my own and surprise her with it - an article on procrastination wouldn't be rewarding enough for her to nudge, cajole, etc. through the process.
 


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