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The Great Thread of Denial and Procrastination

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DRR... DRR... DRR...
(prev. Mordant)

21:37 / 05.10.06

Leaving the box of pastels open on top of the sketchpad is the same as drawing! It is! It's TRUE!

ghadis

21:39 / 05.10.06

Looked at from above, Barbelith is like a box of pastels.

Boboss

21:39 / 05.10.06

Buying books on writing is a whole lot like writing. OF THAT WE CAN BE SURE!

DRR... DRR... DRR...
(prev. Mordant)

21:40 / 05.10.06

And big teetering stacks of books in places where books shouldn't be? Totally the same as studying.

Tom Waits knows Kali
(prev. Kali, owner of a mouthy cat)

21:40 / 05.10.06

Re-reading old short stories is editing. IT'S TRUE!

MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!

21:42 / 05.10.06

Posting on Barbelith is just like working on an overdue script! VERILY!

21:42 / 05.10.06

buying books on grammar and never cracking them open improves your writting skillz 1000%%%!!!11!!

*kicks the dirt dejectedly*

Princess Augustine the Hippo
(prev. Prayerful Princess Petulant)

21:44 / 05.10.06

Boiling old newspapers is like reading Chaucer, yep, 100% the same. I'll just hold up my hands in the seminar and the ink will talk for itself.

Ganesh

21:46 / 05.10.06

Wanking is magyck.

Chiropteran

21:52 / 05.10.06

I keep my editing pencil in my hand at all times*, vaguely hovering over my desk, in case anybody walks by and looks at me. It passes for a posture of readiness, if not busy-ness.

*at work

Tom Waits knows Kali
(prev. Kali, owner of a mouthy cat)

21:57 / 05.10.06

Writing in your blog is the same as working on your fiction!

Or so I've led myself to believe.

Red Concrete

21:58 / 05.10.06

Wanking is magyck.

I laughed out loud. Tell it to Grant Morrison.

Buying a writing pad, small envelopes and a fold of 2nd class stamps is worth it! (even if I use them for doodling, soaking up drool, and bills, respectively)

Boboss

21:59 / 05.10.06

Wanking is magyck

Thanks for throwing that one into the spotlight, Ganesh.

Fuckin' LOL

Life Critic

22:08 / 05.10.06

i think maybe you guys arent wanking right.

Feverfew

22:14 / 05.10.06

Who truly is, these days?

Tom Waits knows Kali
(prev. Kali, owner of a mouthy cat)

22:20 / 05.10.06

Oh, I dunno, I should imagine by this time, all of us should be fairly adept at it now...

petunia

22:24 / 05.10.06

Sorting out all the crap on the floor into neat piles on the floor, each thing to a different pile, depending on where that stuff will go when i actually clear it from the floor. Then leaving for a month. Then repeating.

Yes, this is true tidying.

And fuck wanking - real Madgjickque is dun by adding as many letters as possible to the word. 0h, 4nd f!nd!ng n3w \/\/4yz 2 fuk w1v p33p0l3s r34l!t33 Tu|\|n3ls thru t3h 4Rt 0v m4dgjickqu3 sp33LLing!

Feverfew

22:28 / 05.10.06

Thank you for that perfectly encapsulated verbal headache...

Consistantly Keggers
(prev. Keggers. Classic.)

22:32 / 05.10.06

Watching America's Next Top Model is just the same as going out and taking your own photoshoots.

Mist combats dehydration

23:44 / 05.10.06

Opening the windows for thorough ventilation surely is the same as conscientious vacuuming.

Tom Waits knows Kali
(prev. Kali, owner of a mouthy cat)

23:46 / 05.10.06

Picking up the largest most visible balls of cat dander qualifies as dusting.

The Stolen Llama

23:48 / 05.10.06

Going into your room with a textbook you should be studying, but instead using it as a makeshift pillow is the exact same thing as studying for four hours.

MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!

23:51 / 05.10.06

Osmosis, Llama! Osmosis!

Kit-Cat Club

23:51 / 05.10.06

Feeling guilty about not having done the work you were meant to have done a week ago is exactly the same as not actually doing it! hang on, no, that doesn't work, does it?

The Stolen Llama

23:56 / 05.10.06

Unfortunately my head isn't semi-permeable, Matt. Here's another fun one-

Holding the same text book high above you (if possible, teeter ing it upon your legs) while lying on your bed in the vain hope that knowledge will somehow fall from the book into your head is the same as studying.

Brushing the same spot of floor at work for ten minutes is the same as dealing with snarky customers that don't know what they want to buy.

Tom Waits knows Kali
(prev. Kali, owner of a mouthy cat)

00:01 / 06.10.06

Flirting with the bartender at your local is the same as a long-term relationship.

Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)

00:27 / 06.10.06

Listening to music is the EXACT SAME THING as reviewing it, oh yes it is.

Dance to the Beat
(prev. Better Be Ready)

00:40 / 06.10.06

Buying a book on a research you should be doing for your graduation final paper is pretty much like doing the actual research.

But what can I say, I procrastinated at work till they fired me (took them two plus months, though), and now I'm doing lots more dough with self-employment. And I can work without ever leaving my bed

cube needs to get out more

01:16 / 06.10.06

I don't have a problem with this

wait, what's that over the

Quantum - terribly nonplussed
(prev. Quantum of Solace)

02:04 / 06.10.06

I'm doing lots more dough with self-employment. And I can work without ever leaving my bed

Wanking is magik! Money magic! Is that your job?

Don't talk to me about procrastination, this is me getting my life sorted out, oh yes, any minute. I just have to make a cup of tea, and then wash up, and then realise it's best done with a fresh brain in the morning, maybe a spot of Barbelith or computer games or reading before an early night, oh look it's after one in the morning already! Fuck it, I'll stay up late for a laugh, what was I meant to do tomorrow again?

alas

02:51 / 06.10.06

Bringing home a stack of papers, sharpening a pencil, and then going on to barbelith is grading.

Consistantly Keggers
(prev. Keggers. Classic.)

03:04 / 06.10.06

at least its not degrading.

pointless & uncalled for

10:31 / 06.10.06

I neither deny nor procrastinate, I employ radical and experimental new operating methodologies.

I can now share two new conclusions with you;

a) Complaining bitterly about the state of the kitchen is the new and improved doing the washing up.

b) Reading enviro-websites drastically enhances my work skills and the status report sheet is getting done far faster than it otherwise would have been, honest guv.

Olulabelle

10:43 / 06.10.06

Making a little pile of wrapping paper, sellotape, scissors and presents is the same as actually wrapping the presents up, oh yes it is, and reading lovely recipes from id here on Barbelith is absolutely the same as making my sister's birthday cake, because they both come under the category of 'food'.

Watching the parrots playing is the same as hoovering the front room, but only if you do it with the hoover plugged in and stand it right next to where you are sitting.

Wristwatch Nuke
(prev. Evil Scientist)

11:12 / 06.10.06

There can be no argument that there is the slightest difference between sitting down with a few glasses of whiskey and watching an episode of Deadwood, and doing the washing up.

No difference I tell ye!

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