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The Great Thread of Denial and Procrastination

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Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:37 / 05.10.06

Leaving the box of pastels open on top of the sketchpad is the same as drawing! It is! It's TRUE!

ghadis

18:39 / 05.10.06

Looked at from above, Barbelith is like a box of pastels.

Spaniel

18:39 / 05.10.06

Buying books on writing is a whole lot like writing. OF THAT WE CAN BE SURE!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:40 / 05.10.06

And big teetering stacks of books in places where books shouldn't be? Totally the same as studying.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:40 / 05.10.06

Re-reading old short stories is editing. IT'S TRUE!

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

18:42 / 05.10.06

Posting on Barbelith is just like working on an overdue script! VERILY!

Ticker

18:42 / 05.10.06

buying books on grammar and never cracking them open improves your writting skillz 1000%%%!!!11!!

*kicks the dirt dejectedly*

Princess

18:44 / 05.10.06

Boiling old newspapers is like reading Chaucer, yep, 100% the same. I'll just hold up my hands in the seminar and the ink will talk for itself.

Ganesh

18:46 / 05.10.06

Wanking is magyck.

Chiropteran

18:52 / 05.10.06

I keep my editing pencil in my hand at all times*, vaguely hovering over my desk, in case anybody walks by and looks at me. It passes for a posture of readiness, if not busy-ness.

*at work

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:57 / 05.10.06

Writing in your blog is the same as working on your fiction!

Or so I've led myself to believe.

Red Concrete

18:58 / 05.10.06

Wanking is magyck.

I laughed out loud. Tell it to Grant Morrison.

Buying a writing pad, small envelopes and a fold of 2nd class stamps is worth it! (even if I use them for doodling, soaking up drool, and bills, respectively)

Spaniel

18:59 / 05.10.06

Wanking is magyck

Thanks for throwing that one into the spotlight, Ganesh.

Fuckin' LOL

Char Aina

19:08 / 05.10.06

i think maybe you guys arent wanking right.

Feverfew

19:14 / 05.10.06

Who truly is, these days?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:20 / 05.10.06

Oh, I dunno, I should imagine by this time, all of us should be fairly adept at it now...

petunia

19:24 / 05.10.06

Sorting out all the crap on the floor into neat piles on the floor, each thing to a different pile, depending on where that stuff will go when i actually clear it from the floor. Then leaving for a month. Then repeating.

Yes, this is true tidying.

And fuck wanking - real Madgjickque is dun by adding as many letters as possible to the word. 0h, 4nd f!nd!ng n3w \/\/4yz 2 fuk w1v p33p0l3s r34l!t33 Tu|\|n3ls thru t3h 4Rt 0v m4dgjickqu3 sp33LLing!

Feverfew

19:28 / 05.10.06

Thank you for that perfectly encapsulated verbal headache...

Saint Keggers

19:32 / 05.10.06

Watching America's Next Top Model is just the same as going out and taking your own photoshoots.

Mistoffelees

20:44 / 05.10.06

Opening the windows for thorough ventilation surely is the same as conscientious vacuuming.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

20:46 / 05.10.06

Picking up the largest most visible balls of cat dander qualifies as dusting.

Lama glama

20:48 / 05.10.06

Going into your room with a textbook you should be studying, but instead using it as a makeshift pillow is the exact same thing as studying for four hours.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

20:51 / 05.10.06

Osmosis, Llama! Osmosis!

Kit-Cat Club

20:51 / 05.10.06

Feeling guilty about not having done the work you were meant to have done a week ago is exactly the same as not actually doing it! hang on, no, that doesn't work, does it?

Lama glama

20:56 / 05.10.06

Unfortunately my head isn't semi-permeable, Matt. Here's another fun one-

Holding the same text book high above you (if possible, teeter ing it upon your legs) while lying on your bed in the vain hope that knowledge will somehow fall from the book into your head is the same as studying.

Brushing the same spot of floor at work for ten minutes is the same as dealing with snarky customers that don't know what they want to buy.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

21:01 / 05.10.06

Flirting with the bartender at your local is the same as a long-term relationship.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:27 / 05.10.06

Listening to music is the EXACT SAME THING as reviewing it, oh yes it is.

Dead Megatron

21:40 / 05.10.06

Buying a book on a research you should be doing for your graduation final paper is pretty much like doing the actual research.

But what can I say, I procrastinated at work till they fired me (took them two plus months, though), and now I'm doing lots more dough with self-employment. And I can work without ever leaving my bed

■

22:16 / 05.10.06

I don't have a problem with this

wait, what's that over the

Quantum

23:04 / 05.10.06

I'm doing lots more dough with self-employment. And I can work without ever leaving my bed

Wanking is magik! Money magic! Is that your job?

Don't talk to me about procrastination, this is me getting my life sorted out, oh yes, any minute. I just have to make a cup of tea, and then wash up, and then realise it's best done with a fresh brain in the morning, maybe a spot of Barbelith or computer games or reading before an early night, oh look it's after one in the morning already! Fuck it, I'll stay up late for a laugh, what was I meant to do tomorrow again?

alas

23:51 / 05.10.06

Bringing home a stack of papers, sharpening a pencil, and then going on to barbelith is grading.

Saint Keggers

00:04 / 06.10.06

at least its not degrading.

pointless & uncalled for

07:31 / 06.10.06

I neither deny nor procrastinate, I employ radical and experimental new operating methodologies.

I can now share two new conclusions with you;

a) Complaining bitterly about the state of the kitchen is the new and improved doing the washing up.

b) Reading enviro-websites drastically enhances my work skills and the status report sheet is getting done far faster than it otherwise would have been, honest guv.

Olulabelle

07:43 / 06.10.06

Making a little pile of wrapping paper, sellotape, scissors and presents is the same as actually wrapping the presents up, oh yes it is, and reading lovely recipes from id here on Barbelith is absolutely the same as making my sister's birthday cake, because they both come under the category of 'food'.

Watching the parrots playing is the same as hoovering the front room, but only if you do it with the hoover plugged in and stand it right next to where you are sitting.

Evil Scientist

08:12 / 06.10.06

There can be no argument that there is the slightest difference between sitting down with a few glasses of whiskey and watching an episode of Deadwood, and doing the washing up.

No difference I tell ye!

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