Procrastination

April 8, 2008 11:19 AM

Procrastination is... [QT, via]
posted by Armitage Shanks (27 comments total)

...what I do all day, thanks to enablers such as Johnny Kelly.
posted by everichon at 11:25 AM on April 8, 2008

story of my life.
posted by ornate insect at 11:27 AM on April 8, 2008

I'll look at this later.
posted by rtha at 11:28 AM on April 8, 2008 [8 favorites]

That was so awesome.
posted by kbanas at 11:32 AM on April 8, 2008

Oh god. Is this gonna involve puppy-eyed naked children?
posted by Bromius at 11:32 AM on April 8, 2008

I'm watching this NOW, and I'm commenting on it NOW.

I'm all about concrastination at the moment.
posted by Dr-Baa at 11:33 AM on April 8, 2008

I finished my thesis today. I'm a viking for a day.
posted by Free word order! at 11:44 AM on April 8, 2008 [5 favorites]

you sleep?
posted by AwkwardPause at 11:44 AM on April 8, 2008

Precrastination: I'm commenting on this before I even watch it.

(Just watched half: cool animation!)
posted by not_on_display at 11:46 AM on April 8, 2008

Procrastination is trying to write your thesis, realizing you need a coffee, going to get the coffee, but it has to be from another building because the cafe in this building is not good, then its colour coordinating events in iCal while you try to remember what paper that reference is in, knowing full well you could just get up and walk over to the filing cabinet and get the damned paper because you remember what the paper looks like and what file folder it's in but not the name and that's why you can't just type it in the search bar of your referencing program and then trying to figure out a numbering scheme for the different sections in said thesis and then forgetting that's what you were doing, winding up on MeFi and typing a ridiculously long comment with poor punctuation all the while feeling guilty for not writing your Lit Review. I am the procrastinatrix.
posted by LunaticFringe at 11:54 AM on April 8, 2008

Procrastination is that warm feeling of accomplishment you get from having cleared out your entire bloglines backlog while at work.
posted by DU at 11:57 AM on April 8, 2008 [2 favorites]

This was great.

His website mostly has illustration work, but there are two more animations you can watch: one he made for an Irish band (The Redneck Manifesto), and the story of Shelly, the music-loving lobster.
posted by OutlawedYeomen at 12:08 PM on April 8, 2008

procrastination is this.
posted by kitkatcathy at 12:17 PM on April 8, 2008 [3 favorites]

Anticrastination. The anti-procrastination.
posted by Mister_A at 12:26 PM on April 8, 2008

I am procrastination. Please stop talking about me behind my back.
posted by procrastination at 12:33 PM on April 8, 2008 [4 favorites]

It's about time.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 12:42 PM on April 8, 2008

Procrastination is Googling the word 'thesaurusizing' to ponder it's usage and legitimacy and noting that it has 133 hits.
posted by dgaicun at 12:50 PM on April 8, 2008

Similar take on the subject by Richard Condie.
posted by tachikaze at 12:59 PM on April 8, 2008

I'd come up with some kind of explanation of what procrastination is, but fuck, I'm way to lazy for that shit.
posted by quin at 2:06 PM on April 8, 2008

Oh yeah shit I'm supposed to be writing a story in Japanese, huh.
posted by Citizen Premier at 2:22 PM on April 8, 2008

Is this your way of making me feel bad about not studying for my history test? Because it worked.
posted by lilac girl at 2:38 PM on April 8, 2008

Procrastination is chemical salvation?
posted by dirigibleman at 3:18 PM on April 8, 2008

the thief of time. Procrastination is the thief of time. Procrastination is the thief of time. Procrastination is the thief of time. Procrastination is the thief of time.Procrastination is the thief of time.Procrastination is the thief of time.Procrastination is the thief of time.Procrastination is the thief of time.Procrastination is the thief of time.
posted by verisimilitude at 3:47 PM on April 8, 2008

On one hand he sounds annoyed at procrastination. On the other hand I just procrastinated a few minutes watching his video; time that should* have been spent reading the rest of metafilter.

*I'm a driven individual.
posted by ersatz at 3:55 PM on April 8, 2008

Ooh, that was lovely. I loved the animation and I loved the way it ended and I loved how he made a cup of tea three times.

...*looks for another video to watch, another MeFi thread to read*
posted by Phire at 8:52 PM on April 8, 2008

Try doing things that give you the illusion of getting closer to your actual task.
posted by Happy Dave at 2:17 AM on April 9, 2008 [1 favorite]

Hey, listen. I am not a thief of time; I am the time you spend to help you feel the pressure to motivate yourself. I am not chemical salvation; I am the chemicals that make you salivate. I am not Metafilter; Metafilter is me. And I am not trying to write anyone's thesis. I wrote my own and that got turned in months late.
posted by procrastination at 6:54 PM on May 7, 2008