"Get off your badonk and stop procrastinating. Right now. No, not after the Gilmore Girls rerun ends. Now now." 

How does he know?  Yeah I watch it.  I said it.  So, I meant to post about this a while ago.  Go figure.

The nugget of wisdom for the punctually challenged: Once a procrastinator, always a procrastinator.  True story.  Well, says Slate's Seth Stevenson in his Letter to a Young Procrastinator: "Stop resisting and embrace your procrastination."  Yes, let go of the delusions you will grow out of the phase and become a highly productive and scheduled individual completing tasks days ahead of time.  Not gonna happen.  But that's OK.  It's a liberating notion. 

Hey, procrastination is a good thing.  Watch that marathon of Jon & Kate Plus 8.  Take a walk, read a book, play some hopscotch...while drinking scotch.  Why not?  

"You're going to procrastinate anyway, so you may as well enjoy the time you're stealing from your tasks," procrastinator extraordinare Seth tell us.  Word.  And to make us feel better about ourselves, Seth rationalizes:  "While that grind in your econ class is toiling, you're becoming a more relaxed, quirkier, less-programmed person. You nurture the creative sprouts that take root only in long hours of idleness. You're open to soulful experiences that lie only beyond the bounded worlds of work and study." 

Yeah, what he said.

Oh yes, and fear not, your skills translate to the working world: "Executed correctly, this method is in fact terrific practice for maintaining your cool in stressful work environments. Pressing deadline anxiety can be channeled into an extreme level of focus. If you can train yourself to complete your assignments under pressure, quickly and efficiently, you will always find yourself in demand."

Oh, I've got it down to a science.  Hey, whatever we have to tell ourselves.  Now stop reading this.  Hell, I'm procrastinating right now.  Ooh, Gilmore Girls is on...

(Or if you insist on furthuring your procrastinatory endeavors, here's more from Slate's special issue on procrastination.  Bone up on your affliction...er, skills.)