{"id":2227,"date":"2010-08-17T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2010-08-17T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T13:36:42","slug":"procrasti-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/procrasti-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Procrasti-nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can take delaying work to new heights. \u00c2\u00a0I have done it today, in spades. \u00c2\u00a0I know I&#8217;m doing it, there&#8217;s no fooling myself. \u00c2\u00a0I have to read about 450 pages of really boring technical material. \u00c2\u00a0I gave myself a deadline to get it all done, there should have been lots of time to do it. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s still not done, my deadline is down to about 5 hours of remaining time. \u00c2\u00a0This morning I have wasted about 2 hours of reading time doing the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tidy the kitchen and house so the cleaning lady could come in and do a good job.<\/li>\n<li>File some papers<\/li>\n<li>Clean off my desk<\/li>\n<li>Facebook check<\/li>\n<li>Carefully select some reading music in iTunes<\/li>\n<li>Chat with Nikki who was stuck in an enormous traffic jam<\/li>\n<li>Scratch four dog ears and two dog bellies<\/li>\n<li>Tidy up some dangling cables in the office<\/li>\n<li>Send four emails<\/li>\n<li>Write this damn blog post<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My book remains open beside me as I type this. \u00c2\u00a0Oh, page 298 why do you look like a huge boulder? \u00c2\u00a0There&#8217;s no reason why it&#8217;s so hard to read this crap, besides the fact that it&#8217;s boring, and I know most of it. \u00c2\u00a0Ok, so there are two fairly big reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, that&#8217;s it, square the shoulders and just grab page 298 by the horns. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s on, Mother-booker!<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what&#8217;s that shiny thing over there on the web? \u00c2\u00a0Oh, it&#8217;s a cute video of an otter&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0awww.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ef\u00bb\u00bfhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5usIxO_beYw<\/p>\n<p>What the? \u00c2\u00a0CRAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can take delaying work to new heights. \u00c2\u00a0I have done it today, in spades. \u00c2\u00a0I know I&#8217;m doing it, there&#8217;s no fooling myself. \u00c2\u00a0I have to read about 450 pages of really boring technical material. \u00c2\u00a0I gave myself a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/procrasti-nine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","tag-i-like-shiny-internet-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-zV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}