Well, falling out of love is an altogether grubbier affair, there are no blinding rages or weeping breakdowns to obliterate what is really one long act of procrastination - you look at the only recently adored face, so sweet, so trusting, so vulnerable, and you think to yourself, how could I bring pain to that?
Long periods of procrastination were more frequently replaced with shorter periods of panic as the funding began to slip away.
Procrastination – a long word which sounds better to the ear than saying 'I have a problem with avoiding work' – blights even the best of us and has been complained about for millennia.
And, although an Ivy League school offering a creative-writing class called "Wasting Time on the Internet" still sounds shocking to many, drifting, daydreaming, and procrastination have long been a part of the writing process.
But he knows what he is up to (the page-long sentence perfectly reflects the procrastination, Richard's, which it's describing), and even the occasional archaic-seeming idiom ("bethought", "betake", "smallened") has its place, if only to remind us that, contemporary though the setting is, the author has a respect for old-fashioned ways, in language and in life.
Figuring out which genes are involved in procrastination is still a long way away, and there's likely many hundreds or thousands of variations.
It's despairing to write these words, but the procrastination has gone on long enough: "Moonlight" is a frothily toned detective series in which a metrosexual vampire (Mick, played by Alex O'Loughlin) functions as chief private investigator.
As the Japanese example shows, procrastination merely increases the long-term pain.
MySpace.com, the popular online social network and procrastination tool, began its long-awaited music service Thursday.
The economy is sluggish, enrollment has dropped 40 percent since 2003 and procrastination seemed to trump long-term planning when it came to the school's balance sheet.
