Procrasti Natio N

I'll write on this page later. -JessicaSkater

i'll get to it some other time too. -knute

I'll write on here tomorow..really i will..if not then then the nexd day..yeah 3 days from now works..-Heather

Hey, I'll write on here! as soon as I clean my room...answer those letters...call them...and worsh dad's car!

I was going to write on here, really I was, I just gotta go do... something first... -Ali

I can't believe there was not a page for this on the ever-so-wholesome Wiki... *grin* Well, we all procrastinate a little, I'm sure. Some of us procrastinate like crazy. Heck, I'm procrastinating right now!

(ahem) Personally I think it's a big problem.. Not doing things right away can lead to.. awful messes. The other day, I made myself laugh (something I do often) when I blurted out as I cleaned (or tried to clean) my room: "Laziness leads to craziness...." It does. I can't believe how out-of-order some parts of my life are, just because I waited too long to do something. Augh!

Am I just one of those people? Yuck... Well, as long as I'm procrastinating, I suppose I'll try and give it some dignity: Yay for procrastinators! Let us one day, maybe tomorrow, maybe in a half-hour, maybe next year... finally get around to all those things we have to get done! *cough*

So...? Perhaps this could be a nice place for some of you to post those things you've been procrastinating on lately, or what you think about the whole Procrasti Nation in general. ; ) Think of it as the support-group you never have gotten around to joining...

-Mari...

• grins*

what a great page. there's a gestalt notion that people put things off because they don't really want to do them. like homework, or resumes, or that sort of thing. something to think about.

witchbaby

It's our own nation, yo!

~Procrastio Nation!~

• I'll join.

Dude, I am such a bad procrastinator! I do my homework at two in the morning before class, I wait two weeks to wash the dishes, I wait until my room is a jungle before I clean it, I wait months before replying to emails from people, I wait about the same amount of time to send packages/music mixes from friends.

Not all of my procrastination comes from my perfectionist tendencies, but much of it does. I like to wait until an email or package is perfectly whole before sending it out, which can be weeks or months. And, really, it takes me a long time to make up my mind on things, and I change it often. I like to wait until I'm set in a decision to take it on, and that can be a while.

Thanks, Mari :)

I was wondering where I lived... I couldn't believe I live in the State of Denial, and I keep wandering out of the State of Confusion... Hoorah for the Procrasti Nation! Yes, I am a Procrasti. I am a Master Procrasti. Example: last year I had to write a couple papers for a class at City College. The day before they were due I stayed at home all day and wrote them. From scratch. And handed them in the next morning. And got an A. Oh, I procrastinate so much... sometimes it gets me in trouble, but not enough so I feel like I have to change. A lot of times I just feel like I really just need more R&R time and the 'more important' things get dropped. I feel really guilty... but somehow I don't change. Heehee, Wiki seems to me to be the perfect place to have this page... I can't even count the amount of times I've procrastinated something and gone on Wiki.

One of my proudest high school moments was freshman year when I started an essay on Romeo and Juliet at 7am the morning it was due. Wrote it from scratch, typed it, and read it aloud to my English class at 8:30. And got an A. Okay, so it was probably the shortest paper in the class, but like my teacher said...'Essays are like skirts: they should be long enough to cover the important stuff, but short enough to be interesting.'

And now? Well...you don't expect me to have stopped procrastinating after getting positive feedback for it, do you? ; ) I'm sorta unprepared for a major Eastern philosophy test I have in two days, haven't begun to begin a paper on Hinduism vs. Buddhism due at the same time, and I should still be spending more time on chemistry seeing as how I'm coughfailingcough. I owe people letters. I'm an erratic correspondentsometimes I answer the same day, sometimes it takes months. It's got something to do with perfectionism, as Eireann was saying. So...don't take it personally : ). I Need to clean my room. I should be calling more people and going more places about stuff I want to do, as in, organizing the near future and such. To top everything off, I'm one of those annoying people who are chronically late. -JenniFer

well, i'm a terrible procrastinator with my schoolwork, but like everyone else who's written here so far, it's basically just cuz i *can*. i mean, if i get an A no matter how late i write a paper, why bother doing it when i could be doing far more interesting things? i also have a habit of studying for tests only on the night before, which also gets A's. it makes me feel a little guilty, but not guilty enough to motivate me.

i also procrastinate writing people letters, it totally depends on my mood and who i owe letters to...but it can take anywhere from a week to a month+. especially if i'm not quite sure what to say to that person - if they said something very brilliant or emotional and i don't know how to respond. which really sucks since those are the letters that deserve the most attention.

i don't procrastinate very much otherwise. i like accomplishing things, even stupid things like organizing my CDs or chopping vegetables or playing jingle bellls, just so i can feel like i'm doing something.

jenny

Waiting a month to reply to a letter is totally not procrastination! But yeah, anyway, there are lots of things I don't get done, but it's always because I'm doing *other* things. I don't think I could keep up with everything, at least not for very long. If I get all my Organic Chemistry homework done, then the room is messy. If I call my friends, I don't play with the rats. If I write to my parents, I don't read my library book. If I work on the webpage, I don't make dinner. Or whatever. Right now, the room is a mess and the laundry needs to be done and there's no food in the kitchen and the rats' cages need to be cleaned and I've got a bunch of checks to take to the bank, and I need to make my annual appointment with the gynecologist... There are at least two friends I need to call, and I need to write to my parents and put up the new webjournal entry... BUT I've done all my Organic reading and read the two papers for Comparative Cognition (which isn't until Thursday) and practiced my flute, and I'm almost done with the back of the shirt I'm knitting. I did the extra lab work I had, although I did procrastinate on writing it up! And the photos from the fair are all on my computer and edited and organized and I don't have a whole bunch of unread e-mail, and I took a shower and wrote down what I dreamt last night. I salvedged all the data from my old computer, and I finished "Acid Dreams" and started "Dance of the Dolphin," and we went to the library and so forth. So whatever. Probably a week from now the room will be spotless and I'll have a pile of unfinished homework... - Julie(lipse

My middle name. Not literally. But currently I have a pile of dirty dishes in the sink with my name on it. And it's 1:10AM. Peta Wilson is the most good looking woman I have ever seen. I just felt I had to make that known.

Procrastinators, unite (when we get around to it, that is- why unite today when you can unite tomorrow?)! I have a mile-long list of things I really should've done a long time ago, but haven't. Mid-way down that list is my special assignment for seventh grade science, which I never got around to doing before it was due (it was due 3 years ago next month), and kept putting off until the end of the year, when my science teacher finally quit asking for it. Reinforced behavior is retained behavior. -Katherine

I am procrastinating on sending in registration for NBTSC. Hmm... maybe tomorrow? Nah, maybe the next day. Well, time's running out.. -Mari `````

I counted the other day what that moment I should be doing and it toped over a dozen. It isn't that I really put stuff off as much as I load allot on. I gotta get my ass in gear on passports etc. I'm stalling on school work, and findings tuff Im missing and calling Dad and answering hard e-mail. Shippy

How much of procrastionation is due to fear?

• a lot.