Sunday, March 1, 2009

The art of procrastination

The art of procrastination…..

Procrastination is a talent that takes years of fine tuning to master. All the following are examples of procrastination technique that I have come accustomed to:

· Sneaking in a nap …. All the while ignoring the 9+ hours of sleep I had the night before.

· Giving into the strange urge to paint my finger and toe nails with white out…

· Doing some “extra research” on the internet… and ending up on facebook for hours looking at friends’ photo albums of creepy family relatives.

· Taking a phone call from my mother, because answering her phone calls are always important and time consuming….

· Cleaning my bathroom.

· Matching socks together in my sock drawer.

· Taking a bath or shower so long that my fingers prune

· Writing a list of songs that I keep on forgetting to download from iTunes

· Braiding random sections of my hair

· Eating old breath mints that I found at the bottom of my purse until I become sick to my stomach.

Please note that the above mentioned activities transpire just hours and sometimes minutes before a project must be completed. Subsequently, procrastination helps you hone in on your skills for working under pressure.