The Simple Life

The art of procrastibaking.

Procrastinating is a part of life. We all do it. Nobody can honestly say they consecutively start and finish one task after the other, until there is literally nothing else that needs doing. If that is you, then you have a serious case of obsessive-compulsive-anti-procrastination-disorder.

I am the queen of procrastinating. I am doing it right now. My French exam is approaching alarmingly quickly and yet here I am, writing about why I am not circling the room muttering phrases to myself like a nut-job.

In fact, the art of procrastination has become so mainstream that people are now engaging in a new form of procrastination – procrastibaking. According to Urban Dictionary, procrastibaking is the practice of baking delicious and delectable treats in order to put off something else you need to do. Or in my case, cooking what appears to the naked eye as flat miniature brown pancakes with inverted craters, but are in fact vanilla cupcakes. Sah indie.

This convention of delaying pressing tasks takes on my forms. I know many passionate procrastifacebookers who spend most of their time posting depressing statues instead of actually confronting the jackass who hurt them, or the bitch who stole their pen. Or consistently informing the world that you are ‘So bored…’ instead of actually finding something to do with your life.

Whether it be procrastibaking, procrastidating or procrasturbation, we all like to postpone inconvenient and tiresome things by finding other distractions. Why? Because it’s the easy way out and us humans like to keep things simple.

Quoi? Write a French essay?

Go bake a cake.

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The meaning of Tumblr...

Stranger: How do you use Tumblr?

Me: Well you scroll through a bunch of pictures while doing nothing else, click a button and pretend it's your own cool idea. Then, a bunch of people who think you are interesting tell you you're amazing by clicking that same button and pretending they came up with it.

Stranger: Sounds like copyright infringement.

Me: Basically.

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