I met friends for dinner tonight; it was supposed to be an early and short dinner, because one of them has a project due. Oh, okay. What’s the project? The difference between (something I don’t understand) and (another thing I don’t understand). (She’s a resident and I’m not even sure what her specialty is or will be.)
I asked her when the project is due. Friday. When did you start on it? A couple days ago. And how long have you known about it? Four years.
Four years. I am in awe of her procrastinatory abilities.
That is absolutely Olympic standard. Heck, I thought I was bad for having trouble paying bills late and xmas cards and stuff, but I am humbled by this lady’s skills.
btw - did you have a good dinner, or were you far too astonished to be able to enjoy the food?
I received a request for 6 data extracts at 3 pm last Friday. The answers had to be on the minister’s desk on Monday morning. The original recipient had waited 8 days before asking me to do it. From early morning December 1 to 3pm December 9.
Not even procrastinating, just stalling. I did the work.
I bow down in admiration to your friend’s procrastination abilities. I only tend to manage to procrastinate on the scale of weeks. Years, however, is just impressive.
She’s put it off for four years, it’s due next Friday and you got her snockered. That is a masterstroke of Evil Geniusness worthy of Pitr’s attention!!!
finding this while taking a break from working on my term paper (due today, started yesterday, assigned late august/early september), i felt i was delaying a fair bit. I am in awe of that. Heck, i think even I could start a 4 year project earlier that that… maybe 2 weeks
In fairness, though, it was less than a glass of champagne each, and we sent her to her room as soon as dinner was over. So I may not be the quite the evil genius you’re giving me credit for. I’ll be interested to see how much sleep she gets between now and Friday, though…
Oh, sheesh. I think there’s a history project I was supposed to hand in back in high school. I forgot about it… I did think of it from time to time, but I just kept putting it off. Let’s see, I’m 27 now, and I graduated when I was 18, so…
And I’m serious. The project is supposed to be about Eastern Europe.
Back in the mid/late 80s I was self-employed for a couple of years. I just couldn’t get myself to sit down and wade through filing taxes - so I didn’t one year. The next year, the work was twice as much. Groan, I guess I’ll pay the penalties - I want to make sure I do this right.
Started working for a company. Taxes that year are easier to file, but I can’t just file this year when the last two are delinquent, now can I?
Long story short: 10 years later (having worked again for myself for a bit) I still hadn’t done my taxes. When I finally did it, it took weeks to reorganize all the papers. I hired H&R Block. The guy’s eyes dropped when I told him he’d be filing for 10 years worth!
I wish I had done it years earlier - I received a substantial sum in refunds, even though deducted by late penalties (which I guess is why Revenue Canada had never harassed me ) But what a relief when it was all done - phew!
Heck, I thought I was bad for having trouble paying bills late and xmas cards and stuff, but I am humbled by this lady’s skills.
