Procrastination

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?

Coffee.

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The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

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... :razz:

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 :smile: I'll be you and I aren't
the only ones who share this similarity either AtM :wink:

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Addicted to Morphine said:
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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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

TV.

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. :sad:

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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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

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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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

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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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

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

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i eat paint

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?

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...

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

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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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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

<DIV class=quotetitle>? posted by fishy</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>i'd rather just go fishing today, and leave all the procrastinating until tomorrow.</DIV>

fishman, you really are one of my heros....

Doc B... :dodgy:

procrastination

My new form of procrastination takes its form in my electronic drumkit :eek: 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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ya outta record some chops and post em myrk....id love to hear what yer up to and in to.... :wink: the kit looks sweet by the way....are ya getting settled in the groove with it yet?

Doc B... :dodgy:

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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Must....get......Ultimate Hammer Of Pwnage........

If you haven't guessed, its WoW. I find I play this more than I do homework.

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Posting And You

I played with a similar electric drumkit last year in a music store. I've wanted one ever since :smile:

Well with it being illegal to play guitar now pretty much, I'll play drums more :razz:

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

illegal to play guitar? did your neighbours get an asbo slapped on you?

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i eat paint

Look at the Music Business thread.

I waste most of my free time playing CS. It's constructive and fun.

Fun yes. Constructive? No way. :smile:

I'll have to go with Morphine on this one.

Thats why I gave up mapping, and moved onto music- at least you can get payed for doing music part time, and its alot more rewarding- its not as if guitars go out of date or need a patch, or need ?1000 spent every other year on hardware! Just get good kit and it should last ages.

Plus instruments improve finger dexterity, don't cause deep vein thrombosis from sitting down all day, and are a good form of light exercise- heavy if your drumming. 20 Minutes of punk or heavy metal drumming makes me soaking wet with sweat :eek:

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