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This is a question Procrastination

Outlook is a wonderful tool, but not when it keeps reminding you that it is now 96 weeks since you were supposed to finish a report you haven't even started yet.

Just how lazy are you? How long will you put off the essential or the inevitable? What do you fill the time with?

(We're too lazy to write something funny here. You do it.)

(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 18:18)
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There seems to be some confusion over procrastination and being lazy.
The two are not necessarily the same thing.





Ooo! get me, I'm being pedantic.
(, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 10:10, 4 replies)
In fact
A true procrastinator, I would guess, is quite the opposite of lazy. It must take quite some effort to do almost anything but that which you are supposed to be doing.
(, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 10:13, closed)
Quite so
When I was writing my dissertation I had the cleanest, tidiest bedroom in Christendom.
(, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 11:04, closed)
I really...
couldn't be bothered to point that out.
(, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 10:24, closed)
But couldn't you say that...
...by definition, when you are being lazy, there is something better you could be doing. I prefer to think of it as the purest form of procrastination.
(, Sun 16 Nov 2008, 23:16, closed)

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