>Basically, taking all day to do a relatively small amount of work, pausing, reading fic, surfing, ebay, you tube, random sites looking for Christmas presents for people.
Yeah, sounds like my M.O., too.
Though sometimes I at least manage to procrastinate in a useful manner. Say, by making jewellery instead of working on the thesis; or by writing instead of working on the thesis, etc.
>(Yes, I was on Can haz Cheeseburger, yesterday).
Heh. I visit there every day. It's essential to my mental health. ;-)
>Over the last few weeks I have become acutely aware that I will do anything to put off doing something.
You know what would be great? There should be monastery-like houses where people like us could rent cheap, absolutely bare rooms (with just a chair and a desk and a bed; no internet connection, of course *g*) for short periods of time. Absolutely no distractions. No tempting bookcase, no e-mail program with plenty of unanswered mail, no IM, no LJ or forums... no I Can Has Cheezburger... (NOOOOOOOO!!! *g*) - Of course, there's a problem even with that proposition. Namely, all it takes to distract me, ultimately, is my own head. There's always enough going on in there to make work seem the less appealing option. So many unwritten fics one can think about, etc. My mind is too frelling entertaining!
Okay, I'm a few days late...
>Basically, taking all day to do a relatively small amount of work, pausing, reading fic, surfing, ebay, you tube, random sites looking for Christmas presents for people.
Yeah, sounds like my M.O., too.
Though sometimes I at least manage to procrastinate in a useful manner. Say, by making jewellery instead of working on the thesis; or by writing instead of working on the thesis, etc.
>(Yes, I was on Can haz Cheeseburger, yesterday).
Heh. I visit there every day. It's essential to my mental health. ;-)
>Over the last few weeks I have become acutely aware that I will do anything to put off doing something.
You know what would be great? There should be monastery-like houses where people like us could rent cheap, absolutely bare rooms (with just a chair and a desk and a bed; no internet connection, of course *g*) for short periods of time. Absolutely no distractions. No tempting bookcase, no e-mail program with plenty of unanswered mail, no IM, no LJ or forums... no I Can Has Cheezburger... (NOOOOOOOO!!! *g*) - Of course, there's a problem even with that proposition. Namely, all it takes to distract me, ultimately, is my own head. There's always enough going on in there to make work seem the less appealing option. So many unwritten fics one can think about, etc. My mind is too frelling entertaining!