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I am the Great Procrastinator

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Shortfatdyke

10:18 / 08.12.02

How's it going, KCC?

I'm at home alone, for a change, and have found lots of things to do instead of getting on with Chapter 1 of my novel - hey, the cat's miowing, she needs some fuss/I should have some lunch now and get it out the way/there goes the phone/better see if I have any PMs or emails.... etc. But I'm about to get going, for sure (although I need to wash up and make coffee first).

As for the art stuff - yes, Mordant, I need to bear in mind that my initial/possibly all my painting will be terrible. It's just that I want the stuff to reflect what's in my head and if you saw the wood - well, it would be criminal to spoil it. So part of me thinks I should be varnishing it and selling it as it is. Can I hope to better it by putting paint on it??

Tryphena Absent

15:05 / 20.12.02

Just thought I'd dig this thread out to tell everyone that I am procrastinating right now and I'm just going to go to the kitchen to make myself a sandwich...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

10:55 / 23.12.02

I have two weeks off work. Two weeks with absolutely sod-all to do all day except sit around and scribble to my heart's content. Yet do I scribble? Do I? Why No! I sit around and stare at my ruled pad amd draw flowers in the margins.

My brain hates me.

Kit-Cat Club

10:52 / 22.01.03

Oh - GAH - wanking arsing fronking bastardly SPOOLS OF GIBBERISH spewing forth from my nerveless fingertips and what am I doing? Reading bloody Barbelith. With four hours to go on a deadline. I hate myself but I can't stop.

The Strobe

11:27 / 22.01.03

K-CC: pull. The ethernet cable. Out.

It's the only way to cope. Of course, in about half an hour, I go "but what if I have important supervision related email?" and plug it in. And check nothing's changed on Barbelith. TBH, adding Barbelith fora to my RSS reader, which pings when fora are updated, is most handy.

But yeah. Physically remove the net cable if you don't really need it. Unless, of course, you're using online resources. In which case... I entirely appreciate your pain.

I am about to try and do my holiday work, which I should have done by Monday, which is well after the hols ended. I am awful.

Kit-Cat Club

11:47 / 22.01.03

Perhaps RSS is the way forward then (but I'm a Luddite... and I'm not sure this stinky old computer of Tom's will let me...)

I can't just pull the cable out because I'm using an online short-title catalogue for my footnotes and bibliography - hence the problem. Though I must admit that yanking the thing out hadn't occurred to me, and perhaps my immediate reaction ('But - but - I can't do that! I neeeed it!') is more symptomatic of Barbeddiction than necessity.

Paleface - you think you're awful, but this is the same paper that I was trying to write when I started this thread about seven weeks ago.

So I win...

Kit-Cat Club

12:18 / 22.01.03

After some reflection, have written 'stop whining and adapt' on a post-it and stuck it to my monitor...

illmatic

12:50 / 22.01.03

Perhaps we could dose you up with Ritalin? An essential tool in these tricky times.

Kit-Cat Club

13:04 / 22.01.03

Oh God - late onset ADHD? Don't even go there...

The Strobe

16:11 / 22.01.03

Notes taped to monitor are good. I used to have a piece of white paper taped with a motivational slogan unique to me over the top. I'm thinking of repeating the experiment with the phrase

YOU NEED A 2:1 IN SIX MONTHS TIME

on it in huge Arial Black.

I just got the bit of paper telling me when my graduation was. 26th June.

Fuck.

Kit-Cat Club

08:18 / 23.01.03

Thou at stupendous truth believed,
And now the matchless deed's achieved,
Determined, Dared, and Done.

Huzzah!

Think 'matchless deed' might be a bit strong, but I don't care - am channelling Kit Smart today - anyone for a thread of quotes from ecstatic religious poetry? Might go to bed for a bit though...

last exit

14:46 / 23.01.03

Or...

"Never put off for tomorrow, what can be done just as easily the day after tomorrow."

Mark Twain

Calloh Callah!

Cherry Bomb

15:19 / 23.01.03

And though you may feel a stupendous drain
On the mighty thing that is your brain
Your standing in your school will keep,
So maybe now go get some sleep.

Congrats!

telyn

21:22 / 25.01.03

Brain made of suet? Tasty.

I'm just remembering why I hate writing essays and why I find writing about music so damn hard. argh. I'm considering going to 24 hrs Tescos and buying chocolate pudding and custard.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:56 / 26.01.03

I'm trying to write a nice chunk of ranty goodness about the impending Gulf War II: Son Of Bush, but every time I read background on the subject I start hating the whole human race and not caring if it blows itself up. Which rather defeats the whole object.

The Strobe

22:25 / 26.01.03

So much for procrastus. Dissertation standing at 4986 words, and would be more, but another essay got in the way...

which I rinsed out in about six hours. Am most pleased. I think it might be passable, too... new topic I have no idea about. Also I discovered: i like writing essays, when I've done the work. Quite fun, this creative lark. Can't think how I forgot this.

000

23:01 / 26.01.03

An essay I have to be done with in 5 hours and not a single word writ. I feel gooouuuud about myself. Ah well, I am absolutely going to make it up, borrowing a form from a Premiere article and hoping they'll never notice...

Textual sampling is fun!

videodrome

04:58 / 27.01.03

I have a fluffy 'profile' piece due for a magazine in a couple of hours, and it's muttering over in the corner, refusing to write itself. Woudn't be so bad if it wasn't mean to pay the rent next month. Hm.

Best get on with it, eh?

The Strobe

07:26 / 27.01.03

Oh bollocks.

Have just remembered that I've got 250 words on Ringu due in yesterday. Sod it. Will do it today. Won't take long. (Bet you it will).

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