Procrastinating with the grad cafe

[Usmivka]

I wanted to thank you all so much. I have killed so much time on here, learning all sorts of interesting things and feeling useful myself, occasionally. Even this very moment, I'm sitting in lab reading this instead of running samples, and it is time well spent, because of the thoughtful and/or entertaining posts by folks here on the forum (if your posts are neither thoughtful nor entertaining, I thank you for trying anyway).

So in this spirit, I'd like to hear from others what your favorite way to procrastinate is, how you temporarily ignore your status as a grad student or make it fun for yourself. Or your awesome procrastination avoidance strategies--those would be a big help too...

[TropicalCharlie]

This thread is just what I needed! Thanks for starting it Usmivka. I've been trying to digest this Cell article for a good part of today, sadly without much progress. I will be presenting this article at my seminar class next week. The article was assigned to me and is not in my field, so I'm finding myself looking up a lot of background info which is taking forever. I suppose that in grad school, there is no "easy button". Btw, why are you running samples on sunday night?

As for procrastination avoidance tips, let me sleep on that one

[Usmivka]

Btw, why are you running samples on sunday night?

Science neither sleeps nor takes weekends, at least not when temperamental instruments and time-sensitive samples are involved. I kid you not, it is my birthday too. :/

Perhaps procrastination is justified.

[imonedaful]

I need say something interesting about transaction cost economics, when it isn't interesting.

As for procrastination avoidance tips, let me sleep on that one

Haha. My favorite justification for procrastination is "it is sunny outside, I should be outside, not inside reading!" The best procrastination avoidance is to procrastinate... in small increments. A little here... a little there, never harmed anyone right?

[TropicalCharlie]

Science neither sleeps nor takes weekends, at least not when temperamental instruments and time-sensitive samples are involved. I kid you not, it is my birthday too. :/

Perhaps procrastination is justified.

Happy birthday! Hopefully you got to enjoy some of it outside of lab. I know what you mean about temperamental instruments. I used to run one of those when i worked in an analytical lab. Oh joy!

[Dal PhDer]

I imagine you looking like this last night, on your birthday, on a weekend, in the lab, at a crazy hour of the night.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! :)

And yes, this place and wordpress are my go to procrastinating tools...it's amazing how i can come on here for 5 minutes and an hour passes by...WHAT DO I DO ON HERE FOR THAT LONG??? Also Facebook sucks up time like a vacuum. I love it!