"Hurry, they're after us!"

[quislibet]

Oh well. Question time over; no longer in the mood. And no one asked anyway.

In the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show, Arthur Dent meets a woman who uses a crisis simulator to motivate herself.

I have decided that I am at my least productive when I have plenty of time to do something. There hasn't been much to do at the office for weeks; the few things that I do have to do, none of them pressing, have not been done. I am facing another long weekend, since my boss suggests I not come in until Tuesday. I have had plenty of time to do research and writing in the past month. And have done almost none, probably as a result.

Alas.

Of course crisis mode will kick in soon enough, I suppose; if I don't have a prospectus come the end of April, there's a very real chance I will, at the least, lose my stipend for the coming year, which would be bad.

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[ayun.livejournal.com]

There was this book floating around my office for a while (we licensed some of it for online content) about The Five Types Of Procrastinators. I was sitting around one day flipping through it while waiting to talk to a coworker who was on the phone. When she hung up, I announced that I was a Crisis-Maker procrastinator. "Me too!" she said. And then, from every direction we heard a chorus of affirmation. "Yeah, that's me too!" "Here!" "I am too!" "Meeee!"

Note: I am, at the moment supposed to be sending test messages through our new bulk-mailer software. Cough.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I will put off saying anything about this until it becomes urgent.