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John Perry, being a master of procrastination, one of the most difficult arts known to man, wrote about it better than anyone else could:

All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
--Structured Procrastination, John Perry

Bah, okay, I'll be honest: I just don't want to finish my postlab right now, even though the experiment we did last week was easy to explain. (Really, it's all just double displacement reactions; what else could I say about it?) So, yeah, reading random essays on the Internet is sort of my thing right now.