The disease.

A friend of mine and myself, we both suffer from a 21st century disease. Hours, days, weeks go by while we sit at home behind our desks, clicking trough the magical interweb and musing about the exciting festivals to come or crazy journeys we must make (cycling through southern Europe, hitchhiking all the way to world wide festival and back,...) or just the random crazy shit we'll do when liberated from all this mind-killing schoolwork.
At the same time we have loads and loads of stuff to do and no time is to spill and we know that but it's the disease that is bugging us to act this way.

Every now and then we take a break from procrastinating and text each other the seriousness of the situation (" I read 2 pages today! Èèèèk!", "Say whuuut?! You geek, I just finished my mid-late-afternoon nap so chillax chica!") and when the urge kicks in we call to complain about all the nosy bitchy students in the library hitting the keys on their laptops so hard it seems they just came there to disturb your already lost concentration, not to mention that "they have absolutely no life at all, phuh" and "where do they even find the time to put on that amount of make-up and those hideous fashionable outfits." While I'm the one that reads tuns of fashionblogs a day, sitting in my pj's. SWAG.

We know, we know, all out of frustration but hey, cut us some slack people. We just want to continue life all merry and still deal with the burdens of adult life but all that study shizzle and responsibility pressure is making us flip out.

This procrastination thing has been going on for years now, and it only got worse. As we both are about to graduate (hopefully), the latest question that often rises in our procrastination-conversations is if any other students suffer that from this thing, because if then, it crossed my mind we should probably set up some kind of APN (anonymous-procrastination-ninja)-group in order to bundle our fabulous finds while procrastinating. Cause I must admit, procrastinating doesn't come with negative effects alone. Serious things I have discovered while avoiding the next batch of Algebra theories for upcoming exams. One of them is blogging and reading blogs (soon I'll make a post with my must.read.blogs cause most of my friends think I'm insane when I even mention the word "blog". "c'est quoi ça, des animaux?"). But the mental burden is a heavy one, all day thinking about what your next lazy move will be, the dilemma's of what to eat now or when to take my midday nap, and then I haven't even spoken about "avoiding the guilt of doing nothing all day long".
So to end this post, we're sorry for wasting your time but if you feel our pain. Come and join our next APN meeting, we'll be (just a little bit later) then right on time...

Here you can read the standaard's article about procrastination.