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All aboard at Procrastination Station!


Every now and then, whether in emails to friends or in my MySpace blog (once alive, now dead) I like to list my latest methods of procrastinating. It's fun. Also, it's just one more way of procrastinating. (Hannah, your lizard post inspired this list format--it's easy and fast. Funny and smart. I'm smitten.)

1) Eating. This is a recurring theme in many blogs here at But Hey...Pura Vida, perhaps because eating good food is so essential to living the pura vida. When procrastinating, I like to make fun snacks that remind me of my childhood. Like peanut butter smeared on celery sticks. Yum! Or, brownies.

2) Drinking. My first preference is alcohol, but if it's before 4pm I recommend Starbucks nonfat lattes. Low cal. Smooth flavor. Caffeinated. All around delicious.

3) Watching Flight of the Conchords videos via YouTube.

4) Lurking around on the MySpace pages of friends, family, musicians, strangers, celebrities, and hot dudes alike.

5) Online shopping. There's nothing quite like virtually shopping with some virtual money.

6) Real shopping. But only if you've just been paid. And actually, I don't highly recommend this one because when you use it too often as a form of procrastinating, you find yourself stuck with #5, which isn't that great of a suggestion on my part anyway. #5 is actually really depressing, when you think about it. Because that's what happens when you're fucking poor. You get depressed about it. Because as everyone knows, money equals true happiness.

7) Ogling/dissing celebrities.

8) Decorating. While procrastinating this last month, I have repainted our dining room (adorable and chipper pale pale pink), our dining room table (black), and our living room (light green with one darker green wall). This is an incredibly productive way of procrastinating and requires a keen eye (if I may say), a roommate's indifference, and loads of caffeine-induced energy.

9) More YouTubing. I've discovered a love for the new musical Spring Awakening, and rediscovered my love for Les Miserables, and also watched inane clips of things I shouldn't care about, like that model who fell through a runway floor, Britney's VMA letdown, and Beyonce EATING it (head over heels, face to the floor) during some performance.

10) Craigslist. But let me warn you: If you find something you want to purchase/take via Craigslist, jump on that thing like a ravenous motherfreaking wildebeest. You have to move at cheetah speed. It took me a month to find a couch only because within, like, 30 seconds of a Craigslist posting, some Olympian track star or someone already managed to get to the location of said sofa, pay for it, and haul it away. But also, the Missed Connection section is an endless guilty pleasure. I love reading stuff like, "To the blue-eyed beauty at the bus stop on Monday. We made eye contact twice. Up for more?"

May your procrastination endeavors be fruitful. Go forth! Godspeed!