Procrastination

Good evening one and all and welcome to a little piece of irony.

I had a very productive day today and rewarded myself with a night off! a night free from graphs and word counts and larvae. I decided that I would blog tonight, for the first time not blogging to avoid work!

And then guess what.

I found myself procrastinating from blogging. . . .

Yeah.

That.

I don't think that I don't enjoy blogging, I think it's more to do with the fact that I CAN'T STOP DOING NOTHING. genuinely I procrastinate so much I get fed up with myself and I still stay exactly where I am.

So i thought to make the night even more ironic, I would stop procrastinating, write my blog on a night when I'm not procrastinating from work and blog about. . . procrastination.

INCEPTION.

I think I have actually started to hate that word, I use it at least 3-4 times per day and it just starts to lose meaning. Kind of like when you were little and said the word bowl over and over again till it sounded like nonsense. Anyway I'm going off topic.

So typical procrastination for me starts like this, Eager eyed Frankles sitting down to do work!

I don't work in my owl onesie it's just what
I'm wearing tonight.

"yay lets do work I'm gonna be super productive and I'm gonna do so much great work lalalalala"

Turn on computer, first page that loads is Facebook.

"well I'll just check my notifications first, it'll take a few seconds and then I'll get down to work"

15 minutes later. have twitter open as well

"oh god I really should start work now"- carries on looking at twitter, checking webcomics

"well I'll make it half an hour of break and then I'll start work, I still have loads of time"

45 minutes later I'm sitting on stumbleupon

"ohhh man I didn't notice the time! well I'm starting to get hungry now, maybe I'll work for an hour then get lunch"

So I work for maybe 15-20 minutes before deciding I'm too hungry and need lunch. Of course seeing as I'm supposed to be working it cant be a quick sandwich or something from morrisons, oh no. Today is the day I should try out that new recipe I heard off, or have a craving for baked macaroni cheese.

2 hours later after making an elaborate lunch, I'm halfway through an episode of some crappy TV show and decide to finish the episode before starting work.

Then by the time the episodes over I've already gone on the computer as well, and turn on another show without thinking.

this goes on for a few more hours interspersed with a few minutes of me actually working, which end with me getting distracted by the TV or a new facebook notification (which I cant get rid off no matter how hard I try, every device notifies me about facebook! it's maddening!)

Sometimes during this procrastination I am aware of what I'm doing. I could be lying on the sofa, mindlessly clicking the stumble button completely unaware of that or the TV programme thats on, and still, still I don't move, I don't get up and do something, I just lie there, a mindless zombie completely wasting my existence. and THAT is why I hate the word procrastination

it just isn't descriptive enough, I need a word that describes the absolute apathy, the absolute laziness and the inability to do anything else that grasps me when I "procrastinate".

If anyone out there can think of such a word, something that sounds appropriate for a word that makes me disgusted and hate myself for doing it, then please suggest away. In the meantime I will most likely be right here on the sofa, doing bugger all.

Love Frankles

xxx