You know I do this with showering. NOT FOR TOO LONG, to be clear. But I’ll put it off for a good few hours after a workout by finding absolutely anything else to do. And it’s so stupid because I can’t comfortably sit anywhere until I’m clean, so I sit on the hardwood floor on my phone, or on the sidewalk outside…all just to avoid washing my hair.
I get it! I feel the exact same when I'm so sleepy on the couch and I have to brush my teeth and take our my contacts but instead I just sit there getting more and more tired
I make lists, which is very satisfying. Then, the next day I look at it and get stressed because it looks like there's SO MUCH TO DO. If I'm lucky, I do half, then justify stopping by saying to myself, "I can do these tomorrow." So there is a rotating of new and old endless tasks I procrastinate on. My dream is to someday actually have nothing to do. Which will never happen. Just another thing to be put off.
Okay, this one is actually easy for me. Working on a script. Especially beginning one. Love thinking about it, love jotting down thoughts on character or possible scenes, maybe even lines that seem like they might be good. But sitting there with a blank screen waiting for me to make that first choice, which, if it’s the wrong choice could send me down a double black diamond ski slope of garbage until I fly off a cliff of frustration and desperation and crash into a tree of worthlessness. That’s why I love working with partners, who can pitch wonderful suggestions, take stupid ideas of mine and find a kernel of something useful in them or just remind me that it can’t get better until you something, anything, to work off of. And yes phone calls can be weird or threatening or just tedious, but at least your generation doesn’t have to deal with calling a landline and having to talk to parents before you could talk to the young person you were already nervous about talking to in the first place.
Mine’s probably going grocery shopping. Which is strange cause i love grocery shopping when i’m there but i hate GOING. so i put it off until i’ve eaten white rice for three meals in a row then i’ll finally go and have a lovely time. Very strange.
I hate two things (maybe more) about making phone calls.
1. You never know if you’ll be able to understand the person.
2. Customer service people (especially the ones you can’t understand) use 50 words when 5 would work.
Them: how are you, miss Susan?
Me: fine thanks how bout you?
Them: thank you so much for asking, miss Susan, it is always meaningful when a customer wants to know how I am on any given day. In what way might I be of assistance to you today regarding the issue you have called our customer service line regarding?
when “great thanks! What can I do for you today?” would work even better.
I feel for the elderly among us (looking at you, my 95yo neighbor). The world has grown very complicated. Thankfully, your dumb brain is simple and straightforward and dependable.
The key to proper procrastination is creative excuse making. Something I mastered in school and have been refining ever since. The trick is convincing yourself you have something far more important that needs to be done like...
I have 9486 unopened and I deleted emails one of my three email accounts. I have a total of 39000- in all three. I hate reading them and I hate taking the time to block or delete them. I am a worthless human being.
You know I do this with showering. NOT FOR TOO LONG, to be clear. But I’ll put it off for a good few hours after a workout by finding absolutely anything else to do. And it’s so stupid because I can’t comfortably sit anywhere until I’m clean, so I sit on the hardwood floor on my phone, or on the sidewalk outside…all just to avoid washing my hair.
I get it! I feel the exact same when I'm so sleepy on the couch and I have to brush my teeth and take our my contacts but instead I just sit there getting more and more tired
but i also am a legendary shower avoider in my home. it’s just i hate the feeling of being wet and cold right after…
Yes the whole process of having to get wet to get clean is very upsetting unless I’m in the right headspace
this explains the feet.
HAHA I swear I still shower every day I just may do it at 10pm instead of 5pm
I make lists, which is very satisfying. Then, the next day I look at it and get stressed because it looks like there's SO MUCH TO DO. If I'm lucky, I do half, then justify stopping by saying to myself, "I can do these tomorrow." So there is a rotating of new and old endless tasks I procrastinate on. My dream is to someday actually have nothing to do. Which will never happen. Just another thing to be put off.
Life is just a series of crossing off tasks and putting new ones on until we die!
You really nailed this one! (And I, too, hate making phone calls.)
Thank you!
Okay, this one is actually easy for me. Working on a script. Especially beginning one. Love thinking about it, love jotting down thoughts on character or possible scenes, maybe even lines that seem like they might be good. But sitting there with a blank screen waiting for me to make that first choice, which, if it’s the wrong choice could send me down a double black diamond ski slope of garbage until I fly off a cliff of frustration and desperation and crash into a tree of worthlessness. That’s why I love working with partners, who can pitch wonderful suggestions, take stupid ideas of mine and find a kernel of something useful in them or just remind me that it can’t get better until you something, anything, to work off of. And yes phone calls can be weird or threatening or just tedious, but at least your generation doesn’t have to deal with calling a landline and having to talk to parents before you could talk to the young person you were already nervous about talking to in the first place.
Mine’s probably going grocery shopping. Which is strange cause i love grocery shopping when i’m there but i hate GOING. so i put it off until i’ve eaten white rice for three meals in a row then i’ll finally go and have a lovely time. Very strange.
I hate two things (maybe more) about making phone calls.
1. You never know if you’ll be able to understand the person.
2. Customer service people (especially the ones you can’t understand) use 50 words when 5 would work.
Them: how are you, miss Susan?
Me: fine thanks how bout you?
Them: thank you so much for asking, miss Susan, it is always meaningful when a customer wants to know how I am on any given day. In what way might I be of assistance to you today regarding the issue you have called our customer service line regarding?
when “great thanks! What can I do for you today?” would work even better.
I feel for the elderly among us (looking at you, my 95yo neighbor). The world has grown very complicated. Thankfully, your dumb brain is simple and straightforward and dependable.
The key to proper procrastination is creative excuse making. Something I mastered in school and have been refining ever since. The trick is convincing yourself you have something far more important that needs to be done like...
I have 9486 unopened and I deleted emails one of my three email accounts. I have a total of 39000- in all three. I hate reading them and I hate taking the time to block or delete them. I am a worthless human being.