Helloooooo my lovely little kittens!
I’m going to let you in on a secret. It’s a well-kept secret that I am sure absolutely no one knows about (read: almost everyone who has ever met me knows).
I am really good at procrastinating.
Not just ‘avoiding study’ good, but ‘managing to get a whole heap of non-study related things done instead’ good.
I try to not be like this. Every semester I tell myself, “This time it’s going to be different.” But it never is. Sound familiar to anyone else? The age old motto of “I’ve got heaps of time” just keeps going through my head. And then when the due date gets closer that changes to “I’ve still got time”, and then “I’ve got all of tomorrow still”, and finally “OhnomyassignmentisdueintwohoursandIstillhaven’tstarteditwhatdoIdo?!”
To be fair, I always manage to hand in assignments on time, I just often manage to leave myself a stressed and crumpled mess by the time I finally get my assignment in. Everything always feels (and is) so much worse when you have to do two weeks worth of work in the space of 24 hours. And I’m positive this means I have not handed in my best work.
But that’s not what this blog post is about. This blog post is about how I procrastinate. My magical skill is, as I mentioned above, getting everything else done instead of my assignment. This can include baking, cleaning, watching movies, and lately, even blogging.
This brings us to the point of this post. When procrastinating by doing things that are not what you should be doing, I have discovered that you must use the correct vernacular.
- Procrastibaking
- Procrasticleaning
- Procrastiwatchingmovies
- Procrastiblogging
These words, while not currently in the dictionary, seem to me to be imperative in describing the very important skills surrounding procrastinating by doing other things. They make those other things seem somewhat more important, as though you are doing them for a purpose. Well, that’s how I feel anyway.
And let’s face it, who is going to complain if you bake delicious cupcakes instead of doing an assignment? Your friends and family sure won’t. Okay, your lecturer or tutor might. Perhaps give them a cupcake in the hope they will understand and grant you an extension*?
Anyway, I think I’ve done enough procrastiblogging for now. If I procrastiblogged as much as I would like I would probably end up writing fourteen pages worth and no one wants to read that. Unless they are procrastireading. So I am off. To do something important. Like an assignment. Or some work. Or perhaps I will just go procrastibake…
-Tegan
*Disclaimer: We do not endorse bribing lecturers and tutors with cupcakes. I’m fairly certain that would not work.