| queen.christina | What are you avoiding RIGHT THIS INSTANT? |
   55,841 / 50,000 Municipal Liaison Joined: Oct 14, 2006
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Oct 10, 2009 - 14 58 |
Because I know I'm not the only one who uses the forums to procrastinate :P I, for one, am avoiding an essay that's due on Tuesday. Two thousand words on why Hitchcock punishes blondes. Argh argh argh. Why do I pick essays which only sound awesome? In about an hour, I'll be procrastinating getting ready for work. Or maybe I'll get ready NOW to avoid this essay...hmmmm... So, what are you procrastinating? |
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36,882 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 15 40
1000 word essay on whether testing for thalassaemia should be compulsory. Assignment sheet failed to mention whether it was talking about testing the parents for thalassaemia minor or the fetus for thalassaemia major so I sort of have an excuse. Also, I can't remember whether it was due tomorrow or Friday : \
NaNo's more important anyway -cough-
----------"In Soviet Russia, Sig reads you!"
55,841 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 16 03
Eeep! I'm not gonna lie, I had to google what thalassaemia is <<;
Go with tomorrow, then you'll have a week of freedom if it's due on Friday! (I should really follow my own advice, instead of just handing things up late all the time...)
As expected, it's now an hour later and I'm avoiding getting dressed. I'm so clever.
----------Christina
Adelaide ML
"Take your clothes off, we've got some writing to do!"
28,023 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 18 30
I'm avoiding assembling some hobbie stuff, to stop myself I'm browsing the internet looking for costume ideas to use for next years Avcon which i will then start making...
I think I'm avoiding work by trying to do more work :/ Help.
0 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 18 47
So much as even _looking_ at my TODO list. I don't even want to think about it.
Also, up until about a minute ago, getting up to get some water. I was really thirsty, but too lazy to stand up.
42,227 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 21 52
Ah, going shopping for the fortnights meals. And that's because to do that would mean to admit that my days off are coming to an end and I'll have to go back to work. It's so sad...
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
2009: Dancing on a Dirk's Edge - see for yourself
2,518 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 21 53
I'm avoiding having to hang up my washing and doing some dishes.
----------2007 - All That Can Never Be
2008 - Reign of the Super-Men: Book 1 - Origins - Winner!
2009 - Untitled
44,511 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 23 09
Haha, seeing this thread title did this to my brain:
"Hey, I'm not avoiding anything really... just boredom... yeah, that's the only thing I'm avoi-- JOB APPLICATIONS! ...yeah, I'll do it later."
----------ΩPR!
2008: 'We, the Disappeared' - Win
2009: 'Chaos and Other Theories" - Promising
55,841 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 00 32
I just cooked dinner and did the dishes in order to avoid this essay. I'm running out of things to do!
----------Christina
Adelaide ML
"Take your clothes off, we've got some writing to do!"
2,201 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 01 46
I am avoiding (this is a massive list, so I'm sorry!):
- the Marketing tute that is due tomorrow
- an assignment website due the day after I go to Melbourne next week (yeah, really needs to be finished before I leave)
- my portfolio website that will actually earn me MONEY but I can't be bothered working on
- my Marketing essay that's due on Friday
- my Media essay
- unpacking my overnight bag from last night
I'm just a procrastinator. :/
----------Cate
2009: Flowers for the Fallen
76,045 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 03 34
I'm avoiding anything to do with uni at the moment. I've even organised most of the Kick Off instead.
At least it's constructive procrastination, right?
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Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
61,644 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 04 02
My 1500-2000 word sociology essay about the media and its role in gender stereotypes. I have done most of it, but I've just got to add a little bit more and I keep putting it off - I have been for the last week. I would have done it today, but I went to work and then to the movies and out for tea instead. :P Watching 'Fame' and having pizza with friends is way better than essay writing. My goal is to finish it tomorrow, with the important word being "goal". We'll see if it gets done. :P
----------"Imagination is more important that knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein
"It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words as any good environmentally conscious writer would do." ~ Uniek Swain
25,247 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 04 11
My poetry questions. I thought I should have at least something done of the long list of holiday homework for English, but I'm on the forum instead. There's also a poetry essay, a paired texts essay, and a reflection on the year (an excuse for another assignment I think) due tomorrow just for English. Not happening. I also have a psych test tomorrow. I won't bore you with the rest of the list.
----------Sunset Reflective - nano 2008 - win (51588 words)
Daisy Chain - nano 2009
8,050 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 04 27
cleaning.... who needs to see floor... i mean isn't it just so much more exciting to keep it hidden for a few months and then when you do see the carpet its like a total surprise.... almost like redoing the floor every few months only cheaper...
----------do people ever think you're weird?
sure .. in a charming, endearing, lovable ... yeah.
2,201 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 15 25
I am now avoiding my assignment website, which turns out not to be an assignment website but another report about how I will make my assignment website next assignment. Much more boring than making the website, methinks. But hey, I got most of my marketing stuff done this morning. :)
----------Cate
2009: Flowers for the Fallen
76,045 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 15 37
I'm avoiding Psych Assignment A, Psych Assignment B, Religions Assignments A, B & C, and something about a weekly journal entry for another Psych topic. Blegh.
Oh. And I'm avoiding getting out of bed. <<;
----------Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
42,227 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 16 22
I'm avoiding organising a youth leadership course that's two weeks away, and getting out of bed, and working on planning my nano... I'm sure there is more I'm just not remembering it all.
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
2009: Dancing on a Dirk's Edge - see for yourself
14,014 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 01 07
I'm avoiding doing household chores... namely washing the dishes, which i loathe. Also avoiding getting two assignments done early when clearly my time can be better spent... I'll do them tomorrow and then it'll be fine! Yeah... like that's gonna happen.
----------Nano '08' : The Irish Pocket Watch; 50,108
Nano '09' : Destiny Interrupted: Rise of the Fateless; 0
42,227 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 13 23
This one is strange enough I figured it deserved a post:
Going to bed at ten to eight in the morning...
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
2009: Dancing on a Dirk's Edge - see for yourself
32,660 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 14 32
At this instant, I'm avoiding work.
I had to leave my shift early because I'm now at home sick with a bad cold. Normally, this wouldn't stop me, but I'm working with really sick children, and I'm running low on reserves myself.
Bedtime for me. :(
----------http://wrazn.livejournal.com
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)
55,841 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 16 35
Wrazn, your signature quote makes me laugh EVERY TIME.
I'm still avoiding my essay. Bah. I've been reading a class novel all morning, which I thought was an acceptable way to avoid the essay, but now I've finished the novel.
Hmmm, maybe I'll find food now... that's an acceptable form of procrastination, right?
----------Christina
Adelaide ML
"Take your clothes off, we've got some writing to do!"
2,117 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 17 12
I have a biology assignment due next Monday. I have a maths lesson in half an hour too. I'm actually pretty up-to-date with all my work at the moment. It's kinda scary!
15,011 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 03 30
Sleep, but not for much longer, I think.
Bluuurgh. As if I have to teach again after two weeks' holiday. What a terrible idea.
----------"My job, as a writer, is to explode."
- Neil Gaiman
76,045 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 04 16
Urgh. I've got to stop avoiding things. It's going to get me into trouble during nano if I keep avoiding them. Ah. I'll do them tomorrow. <<;
----------Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
9,201 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 04 46
Housework! Always housework. There are dishes soaking in the sink.
I'm also procrastinating planning for this novel. The closest I've got is re-reading my notes and the few pieces of story I have from my first attempt at it. I should actually make notes on what I have and then lock all the old stuff away. I also think I need to rename my characters.
Starting a new job this week probably hasn't helped with Nano prep. My brain is full from all the info I need to take in.
----------NaNoWriMo- Day 3
Given up on current idea and going back to finish last years!
45,038 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 02 53
Putting away my clothes, going to sleep, and writing a 1000 words essay that I haven't started yet. It's due monday.
----------42,227 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 05 41
I wouldn't worry about procrastinating the essay too much, you've still got a whole weekend to do it in ... but then, I always did only start my assignments the morning that they were due - its incredible what it does for your typing speed when you really really need to get it all on the page in a limited time frame
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
2009: Dancing on a Dirk's Edge - see for yourself
76,045 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2009 - 21 35
I find it hard to believe that people haven't been avoiding things for the last 6 days or so... C'mon... 'Fess up!
I'll go first.
RIGHT NOW I'm avoiding finishing my assignment that's due at 11.30 tonight. I'm half way through but it's just tedious stuff (I need to design an intervention around goal setting theory... see... tedious) and I'm avoiding doing readings for the assignments due next week.
Oh. And dishes. I hate dishes. Dishes are the bane of my existence (and a few other things but mostly dishes)
Come on! What are you avoiding?
----------Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
27,106 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 15 53
Catching up on almost an entire semester of Microeconomics.
That and studying for exams.
I'll be amused if exams roll around and I end up writing instead of studying.
55,841 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 15 55
I'll be amused if exams roll around and I end up writing instead of studying.
Guilty. :(
I'm still avoiding that essay. It doesn't even deserve a name anymore.
----------Christina
Adelaide ML
"Take your clothes off, we've got some writing to do!"
45,038 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 19 13
I always seem to forget to study for exams. There's only one I need to study for anyway: the rest are easy.
But now I have a chem essay due tuesday, and it's difficult, and stupid. there's also an English essay due monday.
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