Procrastination is everywhere

After having received at least a dozen "we need permission to include your work in our advertising stuff" sorts of requests from various marketing firms for massive mobile device manufacturers (e.g., motorola, nec, sony, nokia to name a few), I now can safely say that all of them have one thing in common: they procrastinate. This is obvious, because they'll email me on a Thursday and expect me to fax them some form by the very next day. The best of them give me an extra day or two and provide me with a pre-filled in form, while the worst of them expect me to take time out of my day to call them in the 22 hours I'd rather spend getting high or something.

Now, I mean, it's likely these guys say things like this in order to light a fire under my ass. That's totally understandable, and I guess it's expected in the world of big business. Things happen fast, business moves at the speed of light, time waits for no one, yada yada yada.... Whatever the buzz-phrase, one thing's glaringly obvious: they procrastinate with the skill and alacrity that I always have.

I'm only saying this because I remember a time when some misguided teacher tried to lecture me about how one must plan ahead and tackle herculean projects by "simply" working on a little bit at a time, all the while forgetting that other teachers had said the exact same thing about their own assigning of massive projects. I also remember carefully explaining the direct relationship between happiness and free time, as well as the inverse relationship between the summation of the two and time available to crank out a 10 page paper detailing the intricacies of post-Shakespearean, pre-Modern belly button exhibitionists (and their critics). Sadly, my protests would usually fall on deaf ears. It must be some sort of teacher amnesia brought on by fumes emanating from their red pens of doom.

Long story short, though, I was right. Sadly, I would guess that any teacher that reads this will probably shrug it off and continue robbing kids of their childhoods in order to prepare them for successful careers in procrastination later in life.

Tradition: it's just another word for "cyclically tenured nonsense."