We’re celebrating Autostraddle’s Fifth Birthday all month long by publishing a bunch of Top Fives. This is one of them!
I am a skilled procrastinator. In college, my go to method of paper-writing was spending the day the paper was due in the library holed up with around four Red Bulls and my laptop. From there, I would spend four to five hours messing around on the internet until the panic really started to set in, and from there I would write some sort of outline and churn something out with minutes to spare. This pattern continued into my professional life, where I would avoid doing the work I needed to do until it was absolutely not an option to continue to procrastinate, and bled into my whole life where I procrastinate everything.
While I can’t recommend this method as a proper way to function in the world, the time I spent avoiding my actual work sometimes produced hilarious or gainful outcomes, including the following top 5 instances of superb procrastination:
5. Intense Television Marathons
Including, but not limited to:
- Melissa and Joey
- Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
- Dawson’s Creek
- Battlestar Galactica
- Once Upon a Time
- Teen Wolf
- Mad Men
- Kyle XY
- Lost Girl
- Glee
4. Reached Level 21 on Dragonvale
3. Read A LOT of Fan Fiction
Like, a lot.
2. Sent Facebook Messages to My Ex-Girlfriend’s Ex-Girlfriends Apologizing for Ever Being Mean to Them
I wish I was kidding.
1. Applied to be an Autostraddle Intern
Also known as the most beautiful thing I ever did while procrastinating.
Header Image by Rory Midhani
Feature Image via Natalie Dee
