# How are you procrastinating today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290 "2020-12-30T19:38:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/21 "2021-01-01T16:19:34Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m procrastinating the same way I do much of every day. I hang out here on the 'Dope. 21 hours later I’m still at it, less time out for dinner & sleep. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/22 "2021-01-01T16:36:30Z")
Interesting article from the NY Times on procrastination; don’t know if it’s paywalled or not. > **[Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) (Published 2019)](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/smarter-living/why-you-procrastinate-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-self-control.html)** > > If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about? ---
**Author:** ![ArtBeforeScience](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ArtBeforeScience](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtBeforeScience)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/23 "2021-01-02T06:12:36Z")
I read in a book somewhere that the ability to attack unpleasant tasks quickly amounted to having a superpower, which sounds amazing and cool. And somehow that gets me out of a lot of loops. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/24 "2021-01-03T23:44:15Z")
@Northern_Piper, I suffer from depression and lots of procrastination is one of the results. I think this article is spot on. I look for other things to do rather than do the task I don’t like. I need to start figuring out the reward of getting the task done rather than dreading the process of doing it. Oddly, I do laundry like clockwork even though I don’t like it. But I think pulling stuff out of the dryer while still warm and shaking the wrinkles out certainly beats ironing them, so there is a reward in it for being prompt. Also, because I only have one set of sheets for my bed, they need to go back in place before bedtime. Motivators like that one, do help. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/25 "2021-01-04T03:03:24Z")
Glad you liked it. I found it very illuminating myself. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/26 "2021-04-22T13:43:14Z")
> [@susan](#): > > I have lots of work to do, but it’s raining and cold and I don’t wanna. Therefore, I’m here, and also writing thank-you holiday notes, randomly tidying small areas of the house, and defrosting lentils for my lovely wife’s lunch. > [@Broomstick](#): > > I wouldn’t call that procrastinating as such, more a change of priorities 😉 Humorist Robert Benchley said that there’s no limit to the amount of work that can be accomplished, _as long as it’s not what you were supposed to be doing at the time._ ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/27 "2021-04-22T13:56:16Z")
The same way I procrastinate way too much of the time, Pinky… arguing with people who are wrong on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/28 "2021-04-22T16:31:42Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > arguing with people who are wrong on the internet. [said in a quiet, desperate whisper] _There are so many of them…_ ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/29 "2021-04-22T16:59:00Z")
Last Sunday I planned to go grocery shopping. I decided that Monday would be better. On Monday I realized that Monday, being immediately after the weekend, was a terrible day to go shopping, and I would do it on Tuesday. On Tuesday I vowed that for sure I would have to do it on Wednesday or I would run out of food. On Wednesday I made a big batch of spaghettini, meatballs, and mushrooms, and decided that for sure I would go grocery shopping on Thursday. Today is Thursday and I find that it’s cold and rainy, whereas tomorrow will be warm and sunny, so … I will either eventually go grocery shopping or I will starve. Meanwhile I think I deserve to be given some kind of award for Excellence in Procrastination, but I doubt that any of you procrastinators will get around to it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/30 "2021-04-22T17:19:48Z")
[Some months from now] Doper 1: “Has anyone heard from **Wolfpup**? I’m worried that he’s not posted for a while” Doper 2: “Oh right, I’ve been meaning to send him a pm, just to see how he’s doing.” Doper 3: “Oh, i meant to tell you guys. I saw an account where this guy in Ontario was found by a neighbour, dead and emaciated at his computer. They said it was logged into the SDMB.” Doper 4: “Oh right - I saw that too and was going to post about it but then kept putting it off. Sad.” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/31 "2021-04-22T17:57:55Z")
I found some frozen dinners. I think I can hole out until Sunday! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/32 "2021-04-22T18:47:01Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I think I can hole out until Sunday! I think he’s trying to dig his way out, guys. We’ve got three days to stop him. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/33 "2021-04-22T18:54:06Z")
I meant to post on this subject back in December, sorry-I actually wrote this post two days ago, and didn’t get around to submitting it until now. There are a few things I procrastinate about, and as soon as I get this day sorted out I’ll be sure to give the details. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/34 "2021-04-22T19:03:00Z")
+1. Not by using the Dope. No sireeeee. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/35 "2021-04-23T06:26:28Z")
I don’t procrastinate. I just don’t do fuck-all. Not like I’m pushing the start time of ‘Never’ back any further. They say _“The House isn’t going to clean itself”_. Well, neither the fuck am I. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/36 "2021-04-23T14:19:09Z")
I’m here. The Board is a great procrastination tool. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/37 "2021-04-23T14:28:02Z")
I should be doing something strategic at work, but at the moment, I’m waiting for someone else to do something so I can do something. Until then, I’m hanging out here, farting around on reddit and knitting. I wish there were less going on today - it’s grey and rainy and I’d love to just take the rest of the day off and nap. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/38 "2021-04-23T20:08:29Z")
Update: After five glorious days of procrastination, I finally did go out grocery shopping today. I am now exhausted after lugging in countless bags of groceries and cases of pop and bottled water and a package of paper towels the size of a small house. Plus, I’m unfairly several hundred dollars poorer. This sort of buzz of activity is not worth it. I am not a bee. I recommend procrastination. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/39 "2021-04-23T20:21:51Z")
Update: I did not get to update my Death Pool List on Dec. 30 and no, nobody on that list has died since. Apart from that, I don’t think I can tell you how I am still procastinating today, as I have the impression I will still not be finished by the end of the day. I don’t think I’ll manage tomorrow either. Reminds of the Irish guy who when asked by a Spaniard how to say _mañana_ in Gaelic replied, after mulling it over for a while, that he did not believe there was a word to express such a hurry in his language. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290/40 "2021-04-23T20:26:37Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > [said in a quiet, desperate whisper] _There are so many of them…_ Yep. The dwindles are numbering. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-procrastinating-today/929290.md?page=3)