Pete Procrastinates
Kiaora Unitec!
I have always firmly believed that I’m absolutely capable of doing any amount of work. The trouble is, usually it’s not the work that I should be doing, when I should be doing it. I never really procrastinated in the traditional student way to be honest (which to my knowledge usually involves drinking games and packets of Mi Goreng).
When I should have been studying for exams or doing assignments I would instead write music, learn magic tricks, read self-help books and build elaborate structures out of 'Lego'. I once spent an hour learning how to tie a knot in a jelly snake with my tongue. Awesome? Yes. Pointless? Absolutely.
Instead of doing work in class at college I would often sit practising pen tricks and drawing humorous pictures of my classmates in unusual situations. One classics class I remember drawing my friend Chase in a Hessian sack followed by my interpretation of what my pal Rahul would look like as a genie, it was brilliant, and I still have the pictures.
I later improvised my classics presentation on prior learning and because I did it in the accent of the moon from the TV show “The Mighty Boosh” (which I had perfected while I should have been writing a speech for an English project) my friends, and teacher, loved it.
At one point in Year Nine when I should have been revising for a science exam, I spent several hours learning how to impersonate Gollum from Lord of the Rings, a feat which would, two years later, bring me a perfect score and victory in a dramatic monologue competition, and about six years later, single life. I still consider it an over-all success: It was (and still is) golden.
I guess procrastination is like a credit card; great fun until you get the bill. So my course of action was to always spend “procrastination time” doing something… I won’t say constructive… or useful… I’m going to go with "hilarious"
It's funny, writing this column is helping me realise how I actually don't like people who procrastinate - and I mean really procrastinate, like those people who start things and don't finish them… it's just laziness with a fancy name. I mean, who the hell do they think they are??
Will finish this later, guys…