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Procrastination

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Started 2 months ago by Compass Rose
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Compass Rose

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Isn't that really what everyone is doing hanging out here?

I'm supposed to be writing something ... but here I am, procrastinating here.

Posted 2 months ago #
biophile87

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Ha. Not such an exclusive club, is it. I'm supposed to be grading. I think I'll take a nap instead.

Posted 2 months ago #
Jules

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As a former editor, I will tell you what I used to tell my authors. "The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair."

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allisonw

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I actually find napping to be a vital part of the creative process. Brain works when it's sleeping too.

Posted 2 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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When I was a kid I would throw a fit when I had to take naps. I wish now as an adult that I had the time to take naps:(

Posted 2 months ago #
gracie

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BH - how true, how true.

Posted 2 months ago #
Compass Rose

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I do love an afternoon nap.

Jules, a fire under the butt also helps. Being my own editor and setting my own deadlines requires a tremendous amount of self-motivation (which I am obviously exercising by posting on here).

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Jules

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As a former work-at-home person AND an author, it is waaaayyy to easy to procrastinate. "Look! TV! Look! Netflix! Look! Facebook! Look! Solitaire. Look! Oh, I could do those dishes." It's almost endless. I actually cleaned my entire bathroom top to bottom Monday instead of writing something I needed to get done.

Weirdly, once I start, I usually finish projects pronto. For me, I tell myself that I will do something for one hour...next thing I know, it's done.

Posted 2 months ago #
Cate

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I'm doing a presentation tomorrow at 10:00 (yep a mere 10 and a half hours away) and here I am on MyBallard still procrastinating. In my defense, I write better under pressure. Well maybe I do, don't know that I have ever tried it the other way.

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SmartsyArtsy

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Are you finished yet?

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Aunt Salad

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My 95 y.o. Father died in November- he had told me a long time ago that in his obituary he would like it to say "I always intended to join the procrastinators club, but never got around to doing it". We made sure it was in his obit!

Posted 2 months ago #
onederfullone

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I always log in to say something, always.

I usually end up arguing with idiots.

I'm just procrastinating, apparently, and would've loved to talk with Aunt Salad's dad.

I don't know of any library that contains anywhere near the info of someone older and wiser.

Maybe the Internet will catch up once we quit clicking on dog piss and S. Korean wanna-be's.

Maybe I just posted want I intended to for the first time. /sarcasm

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Edog

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Did I just read that? I make some strange utterances but I have no idea how someone strung these words together!

"quit clicking on dog piss and S. Korean wanna-be's."

What on earth does than mean?

I don't think 100 monkeys typing on 100 keyboards at random could produce a stranger collection of ideas if they had a thousand years!

Posted 2 months ago #
onederfullone

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you can eff yourself again dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8fwtkC5UJU

over 6.5 million views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

over 1.3 billion views.

You missed the really important sentence, idiot.

Posted 2 months ago #
pennygirl

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Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow. That's my motto and I'm sticking to it.

Posted 2 months ago #
Edog

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Thanks Oneder that helps, but I'm pretty sure Psy is a real South Korean and not a wanna-be South Korean.

Posted 2 months ago #
Corvus

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"100 monkeys typing on 100 keyboards at random" pretty well describes the Tea Bagger media wing.

Posted 2 months ago #
onederfullone

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"Tea Bagger media wing."

...keeps you up at night, don't it.

Anyway, I speak for myself, and like I told your predecessor, don't use a derogatory term like teabagger to describe anyone, idiot.

btw, once you pull your face out of the toilet, look around...

Pull your face out of the toilet first.

[edit] Monkey is a term I expect from such well-heeled liberal idiots.

Posted 2 months ago #
iPlod

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..."I always intended to join the procrastinators club, but never got around to doing it."

Ha HA! Aunt Salad, your Dad made my day! Sorry to never have met him, glad (fortunate) to have met you.

Posted 2 months ago #
Cate

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2:00 a.m adrenaline kicked in
8:30 a.m. powerpoint was done
8:45 quick shower
10:00 a.m. standing in front of the audience
God forbid the power ever goes out or my computer crashes in the middle of the night.

Posted 2 months ago #
lakreitz

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In other words, you pulled an all nighter? My hat is off to you. I could never do it.

Posted 2 months ago #
Corvus

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"keeps you up at night, don't it"...

Nope. I sleep fine knowing that 8 + 4 = 12.

"Anyway, I speak for myself"....

Bwahahahhahahahhah.

"don't use a derogatory term like teabagger to describe anyone, idiot"...

Or what? You'll try coming up with a new term?

"once you pull your face out of the toilet, look around"...

What have you got against plumbers? At least what they do requires skill and training. You're a beyond middle aged divorcee drywaller living in a rented basement who's only pass time is regaling the local blogosphere with your delusions of patriotic grandeur.

Hmmmmm... what part of that screams anything but loser? That pretty much makes you the prototypical teabagger. You may as well own it. Like most monkeys you only wish you ever had a thought of your own.

Posted 2 months ago #
Ernie

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My old boss used to say "hey, if you wait until the last minute....it'll only take a minute!"

I don't work for him anymore, needless to say.

Posted 2 months ago #
Aunt Salad

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Ok, to lighten things up around here - the other thing my Daddy said that is useful is: "if it's natural, it ain't nasty"

Back at you iPlod!

Posted 2 months ago #
SmartsyArtsy

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I don't agree with that one.

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Cate

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I'm with SA. Plenty of natural things are nasty. Decomposition for one. Needed in the grand scheme of things but still definitely nasty.

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VeganBiker

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CR - Being a retired person I have all the time in the world to hang out here or any place I choose.
As to "procrastination" well I was told a long time ago "don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today". Not saying that I do that because my belief is to do what ever you want to do as long as it does not hurt you or any one/thing else.

Posted 2 months ago #
racerX

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I've been meaning to post something on this topic... maybe later.

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biophile87

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decomposition only perceived as nasty because we have evolved to avoid it because of the microorganisms that can cause us disease. it's a miracle of recycling.

"if it's natural, it ain't nasty" --keeps me sane some times. or better yet, "it all washes off" like raccoon diarrhea, other vertebrate poop, vomit, blood, and snot. besides, you have to have some detachment if you are going to enjoy the experience of picking through scat or an owl pellet to see what an animal's diet is, or culturing the bacteria that actually causes those smells...mmmm, fruity.

As you can see, I have more grading to do today. This one my least favorite assignment with PIA chronic mac-pc drama. Why can't we all just get along?

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biophile87

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still thinking about decomp here...beef gets aged before you eat it. it sits for weeks with its proteins breaking down before people eat it. Cheese is rotting by different microbes, as is yogurt. Vinegar. Wine and beer, the waste of yeast.

All that sounds all high and mighty. That said, I can't help the visceral lurch when I see maggots, no matter how enlightened I try to be. They still give me the heebie jeebies. Imagine being in a position where your medical treatment involved maggots to cleanse necrotic flesh. Just. Don't. Let. Me. See. Them.

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iPlod

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racerX, you mean after it's fermented? :)

bio, yeah I never could understand the difference. Like when citizen Joe "Soft Rotted Cheese Breath" Gourmet writes a letter to the paper about the horrendous stench caused by the latest garbage strike.

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Cate

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bio - As far as I know we haven't evolved to avoid decomposition....

Posted 2 months ago #
Ernie

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Speaking of decomposition.....

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/20/us/california-hotel-water-corpse/index.html

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oldguybc

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Decomp is something we all eventually have to face, either that or a really hot fire...

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Corvus

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Personally I think it is disgusting that humans insist on worm tight boxes or incineration. Our meager measly little bodies are the only thing we have to give back after a lifetime of greedy sucking and fucking and taking and raping and ruining the earth. Our native ancestors had more wisdom than we know. The winds, the birds, the beasts, the fishes and the worms should all be invited to feast when we die. Any thing less is sacrilege.

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biophile87

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I'm with you, Corvus.

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VeganBiker

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Corvus + me.
I am all for "Sky Burial".

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iPlod

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If you're a healthy individual, please donate your organs before you have your sky burial.

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Cate

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iPlod +1

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