productive.procrastination.
If there is one thing I fervently believe in it is the fruitful benefits of procrastination. Procrastination doesn't always leave you with the most comfortable situation at the end of the rope, but the key is to make your procrastination productive. What you end up getting is hours of constructive, meaningful activities while putting off that one thing that you really don't want to do. How about that!
Naturally this comes to mind in the wired 5:30 AM brain of a second semester senior trying to finish her paper on Dutch and Flemish painting, but hey! Here are the top 10 steps that will ensure the most productive procrastination possible, give or take a few moments of "there is no way I can finish this by tomorrow". Huzzah!:
1. Do 50 Jumping Jacks
2. Floss your teeth!
3. Make a cup of coffee and pretend like you woke up early to see the sunrise.
4. Write e-mails to long distance friends that you miss, and if necessary, call them and 'squee' to them how much you miss them (if it's not too late at night)
5. Check AIM to see if anyone else is even alive at this hour
6. Eat a piece of cold pizza that you found abandoned in the living room
7. Clean your room to create a more viable 'thinking space'
8. Listen to Seu Jorge, the Amelie soundtrack, and Kings of Convenience to retain a calm state of mind
9. Reassure yourself that in a week and a half, it'll all be done. It'll all be over.
10. Take three confident sips of coffee, put on your bear hat, and work till its done!
Oh, and its not like I need to make a point of this any longer, but re-blogging is absolutely too convenient:
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I do the same thing. feng shui ftw!
My room is in a constant state of being cleaned
The room thing I prohibited myself doing all semester. Come Friday there will be a reckoning in Capn Manta headquarters.