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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Dec 16th at 8:11pm 2005

I'm willing to bet most of us here procrastinate in some way or another.

Personally, when I have a lot of work to do for school, I find myself on the SnarkPit more often than usual. Posting and lurking on the forum is my form of procrastination.

What's yours?




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Posted by pepper on Fri Dec 16th at 8:16pm 2005

Coffee.


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Posted by reaper47 on Fri Dec 16th at 8:20pm 2005

Nice, I just learned a new word.

I'd say mapping is a hobby for me, something I can relax while doing it (although it's a pain in the neck sometimes). So of course it's "procrastination" to a point. There's a lot of work I could do while typing this.

On the other hand I don't think I'd do something terribly more useful if I wouldn't be sitting here. Probably getting drunk... :P




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Posted by ReNo on Fri Dec 16th at 8:21pm 2005

My repeat visits to snarkpit and mapcore today are a prime example for me really. I'm very much a frequent visitor when I can't be bothered doing something else that I should be doing <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> I'll be you and I aren't the only ones who share this similarity either AtM <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">




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Posted by Underdog on Fri Dec 16th at 8:34pm 2005

? quoting Addicted to Morphine
I'm willing to bet most of us here procrastinate in some way or another.


What if some of us excel at it to a point of perfection?

My worse is work. More to the point, not working. If I take more than 1/2 hour to get out the door I will talk myself into doing it tomorrow. Thankfully, I have a very lenient job. I can practically make my own schedule.

I do not actually "DO" anything repeatedly in lieu of another, such as visiting Snarkpit to get out of mowing the yard, but I am a serious procrastinator. Lazy would be a more accurate description.




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Dec 16th at 8:54pm 2005

TV.



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Posted by OtZman on Fri Dec 16th at 9:22pm 2005

I do many things. Browse Snarkpit, refresh Urban Dead (even though I did it a minute or two ago), perform tricks (or try to) with poker chips, eat, read stuff like a random page from a book. I procrastinate pretty much always, it feels like, especially when I'm about to do homework.

It really is poison and it might very well destroy my life. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">

Once, when I was learning to shuffle poker chips (putting chips in two stacks and then shuffle the stacks together into one), I thought: "Just a few shuffles" and I ended up doing it for around an hour and a half.



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Posted by wil5on on Fri Dec 16th at 10:32pm 2005

I try to stay at uni all day even if I dont have a full day, just because theres no chance of me doing enough work at home. I'll just browse forums and play whatever game has my attention at the time. Right now, thats Battlefield 1942.


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Posted by satchmo on Fri Dec 16th at 10:48pm 2005

Most of the time I spend at the forum, I spend in between patients. So I am technically not really wasting any time.

I am as anti-procrastinator as anyone can get. Sometimes I would do the laundry or vacuum at midnight because I just got home from work, and I thought the apartment needed cleaning. I don't like to leave things to later.

When I play games, I don't think of it as procrastinating. It's leisure time.




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Posted by fishy on Sat Dec 17th at 1:02am 2005

i'd rather just go fishing today, and leave all the procrastinating until tomorrow.


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Posted by Gwil on Sat Dec 17th at 1:19am 2005

I find it difficult to motivate myself for anything. Anything. The only (obvious) exception would be partaking in casks of ale at the local inn, where I resemble an Olympic sprinter in my urgency to arrive at the watering hole.

Priorities, right?





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Posted by Mephs on Sun Dec 18th at 2:50pm 2005

My entire existance is one of procrastination. The blindingly obvious example is my NFAMN (Never Finish a Map Noob) syndrome. I leave EVERYTHING to the last minute, even if it means having to run like hell for a bus, not finishing (or even starting) something in time for a deadline. I've always been like this and my social life and education have suffered from it immensely.

*goes off to watch TV rather than finish the post...




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Posted by Loco on Sun Dec 18th at 3:59pm 2005

Absolutely anything that isn't what I'm supposed to be doing, including watching clouds when I get desperate.


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Posted by Myrk- on Mon Dec 19th at 12:27am 2005

One thing I find is that when I have loads of work I play guitar and drums more- think its something to do with emotional pressure of work etc causes me to be more inventive and play with the emotions more. Kinda annoying though- in the holidays when I have time I write crap music cus I'm just sitting on my ass.


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Posted by FatStrings on Mon Dec 19th at 2:03am 2005

i'm an interesting case: i will procrastinate any work that is for myself but if someone asks me to do something for them i usually get it done pretty quick






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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Dec 19th at 3:28am 2005

? posted by fishy
i'd rather just go fishing today, and leave all the procrastinating until tomorrow.

fishman, you really are one of my heros.... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

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Posted by Dark Tree on Mon Dec 19th at 12:18pm 2005

procrastination



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Posted by Myrk- on Mon Dec 19th at 6:37pm 2005

My new form of procrastination takes its form in my electronic drumkit It's simply an amazing god send, you can mimic the sound of any cymbal, drum, anything- simply amazing!

Everyday I'm finding new features- like today I found out you can set the size of the room your in, the type of the wall (plaster, wall paper, brick etc) and it all effects the way it sounds, so if your doing a gig in a s**tty sounding room you can mimic another type of room!




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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Dec 19th at 7:05pm 2005

ya outta record some chops and post em myrk....id love to hear what yer up to and in to.... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif"> the kit looks sweet by the way....are ya getting settled in the groove with it yet?

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Posted by Myrk- on Mon Dec 19th at 7:33pm 2005

When I first got it I was skeptical, but ultimately driven to getting around my differences (cost me alot, a seriously large amount!). But now I love the thing, I just love the ability to make my kit sound like anyone elses in a matter of minutes rather than hours of tuning with a drum key (which you can still do).

As you can guess its not some cheap piece o' crap- the heads all feel better than real ones (more bouncy in a good way and make practically no noise) and the cymbals act like real ones. Everything is just like the real thing but defined a bit more and less a case of locating how to do it as opposed to knowing how with this kit, if that makes sense?

I'll record it some time though, I can plug it into my laptop and record something with cubase. Sometime I'll get around to recording my album I've written (I have a guitar pre amp for my PC too, just need a bass guitar!). The main reason I haven't started recording already is getting to learn cubase- never enough time, I'd rather play guitar and drums than try to learn that damn program!




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