Today i am procrastinating that study thing with...

cuckoo

...the aid of google fight. many, many fights - providing much diverting amusement.

So, what's your chosen tool of procrastination today?

Pet

Wikipedia. It's a bloody vortex. Once you're in you can't get out. I started out on marsupials, ended up on Resident Evil.

ApeXaviour

did nothing today really. Meant to go into college, go to a physoc meeting, do a whole load of study and start on my presentation.

I played emporer battle for dune most of the day however. Made some food, checked out my homebrew. Shadowboxed a bit, re-hurt my wrist. played hide and seek with my dogs and then lazed around on the computer til now

Mr.Nice Guy

cuckoo wrote:

...the aid of google fight. many, many fights - providing much diverting amusement.

Whoops. Was that my fault? Sorry.

If it makes you feel better I procrastinate too and I'm unlikely to write my essays or my presentation on time for next week.

Go me!:D

Nietzschean

i've slept all day till now....should have been in lib since 9

Serenity

Serenity wrote:

i've slept all day till now....should have been in lib since 9

Same...well apart from the library thing.

ApeXaviour

Serenity wrote:

i've slept all day till now....should have been in lib since 9

Weird.. you had an early night last nite tho didnt ya? I was up till three last night, got up before noon today, pumped myself with caffeine and have been studying since.

Though most of that is guilt driven from not going to college yesterday and being a lazy bastard in general.

snorlax

did 2hours of research and abit of Paeds, came up with a great idea for my essay, so hopefully i ll do well in it.

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

Weird.. you had an early night last nite tho didnt ya? I was up till three last night, got up before noon today, pumped myself with caffeine and have been studying since.

Well half 1 or so, so i guess early enough. No Caffine today though...maybe that'll be the solution so i do something tomorrow now. I'm watching tomorrow never die's now..

Though most of that is guilt driven from not going to college yesterday and being a lazy bastard in general.

i dunno i never seem to get that guilt till may/june every year...

sleepingbeauty

well i havent started studying at all this year yet. but suddenly i realised today that next week is half way through the term....where did the time go?! so tomorrow im thinking maybe some reading of lecture notes is in order....grrr i know i have to at some stage but i really dont wanna ive a feeling that procrastination will be involved if i do try to read tomorrow...ill shall update yez

Nietzschean

haha. Are we not already half way through the term? there is only 8 lecture weeks in this term no?

if not thats great though......

(Todays study : Nil...............) Lib is closed on sundays all of this term too iirc, tho i'd better go do something, have to do something about my project aswell...

Pet

..Cleaning. I've spent the past two hours cleaning up after my lazy, good-for-nothing flatmate (who also does BESS). Bah.

Soon, I will be doing laundry and going up to dundrum to buy food. What an exciting saturday I have planned..

snorlax

speaking of food does anybody know a really good recipe for salad? or have any good ideas for starters, i'm cooking for all my friends in just over a week, so i need to come up with some ideas.

Salad, with a side order of burger.

Pet

snorlax wrote:

speaking of food does anybody know a really good recipe for salad? or have any good ideas for starters, i'm cooking for all my friends in just over a week, so i need to come up with some ideas.

Feta cheese, black olive, sundried tomato and caper salad is a good one to start. Pretty self-explanatory, just add lettuce and don't bother with any dressing..

snorlax

yeah im a big cheese fan but i don't want to go ot with it, must find a guinea pig to test these on..

right what do you guys think of this menu:

appetisers:

Ham stuffed peaches
Avocado salad, with cherry tomatoes, feta, lettuce and tabasco sauce
a cheese board with grapes

main course-

Basmati with Normandy Sauce

Desert-

fruit salad

or banana ice cream smoothie,

or passionfruit sorbet (impossible to make though--)

John

Serve the cheese board after the desert, it's far more enjoyable then. Ham-stuffed peaches sounds interesting I must say.

snorlax

i found a recipe from about 20 years back in my Mom's old cook book, i haven't actually attempted any of them yet!
the stuffed peaches involves using peach halves and making a sauce kind of thing from mayo, parsley, ham, onions and some other stuff, but it seems very simple and easy to make.
should i really leave the cheese till after?

John

It's the way it's normally done, you do your starter, your main, your dessert and finally the cheese. This is making me hungry

cuckoo

Snorlax - there's no chocolate on your menu. I hope this is a temporary omission, chocolate is the food of gods.

today i am procrastination by reading recipes for chocolate cakes, nigella lawson writes very good food porn.

Crash

"and this chocolate sauce is best served off the breasts of a harem of 18 year old virgins, so as to really savour the flavour"

...i could so be a chef.

snorlax

but people always do something chocolatey!

maybe i could get some mars bars, melt them down, add some ice cream and milk and blend them all altogether, and maybe add some chopped nuts/ a flake to garnish it...

cuckoo

You could just melt the mars bars and have them as a sauce, then set out the chopped nuts, flakes, whatever and get people to make their own sundaes. Like an ice cream buffet vibe.

crash, i didn't quite mean that when i was talking about food porn.

snorlax

great idea Susan, ill try doing that..i wonder how many bars i'd need

Agent Smith

17

arbeitsscheuer

17 it is!

*Wanders off muttering about where in heck I'm gonna get 17 mars bars at this time of night...

snorlax

i don't want to give them all diabetes, although that many could keep me going for a week in college !

SebtheBum

SebtheBum wrote:

17 it is!

*Wanders off muttering about where in heck I'm gonna get 17 mars bars at this time of night...

So there, I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really, but sure enough I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.

Crash

Seriously Sarah - chocolate and a harem. i'm telling you, they'll love it.

arbeitsscheuer

Cheers EduMyth, that was exactly the response I was hoping for!

One of the great monologues of cinema history, surely...:D

Agent Smith

i know i would

snorlax

this crowd you mean http://www.harem.org/, but i don't want to join some kind of feminist cult! i wonder what membership privileges include..

i have a secret. i'v got a secret stache of mini chocolate bars in my special drawer (my sis would find them otherwise). they're left over from halloween, i have them in preparation for hard times and early mornings..somehow i feel better now

John

cuckoo wrote:

You could just melt the mars bars and have them as a sauce, then set out the chopped nuts, flakes, whatever and get people to make their own sundaes. Like an ice cream buffet vibe.

Add a bit of cream to the Mars bars when they're melted. It stops it being too gloopy and adds a nice flavour and texture.

EduMyth wrote:

So there, I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really, but sure enough I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.

cuckoo

This evening i was procrastinating with the aid of tasting notes from here http://www.celticwhiskeyshop.com/asp/category_AtoZ.asp?ObjectID=675&Mode=0&RecordID=127
-had a nice read and a day dream about what malts i'd buy if i had all the money in the world.

ApeXaviour

I have a load of malt (the dried sugary type) in my room

Today I've been procrastinating that study thing with sleep, a hangover and a whole lot of band of brothers dvds

Mr.Nice Guy

Good old Googlism.

Here's some of the better ones about Trinity College:

trinity college is to equip men and women for ministry
trinity college is committed to social justice and a mission
trinity college is an exciting place to be and you will find a warm welcome should you decide to join us
trinity college is a mixed voice choir of university aged singers
trinity college is an equal opportunities employer
trinity college is a fledgling supporter of the positive space campaign
trinity college is preferred
trinity college is gold
trinity college is now available
trinity college is for everyone over 21 years old
trinity college is perhaps best known for its lovely grounds
trinity college is a non traditional internet distance learning organization

Read more here:

http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=trinity+college&type=1

cuckoo

Today did some study, and lots of procrastination with the aid of:

-looking up all threads to revive
-Stargate: atlantis season 1
-http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/295165
(i'm still giggling at that, it's a flash animation with a song called 'geeks in love', by the same ppl who did 'ultimate showdown')

snorlax

it's sunny outside and the little robin has made a nest in the Jasmin, i don't want to go into the library to photocopy stuff ...also am procrasting study with boards, those posts on melted mars bars are making me hungry! hmm deep fried mars bars

Agent Smith

The Chipper at the End of o'connell street ( beside spidernet) sells deep fried marsbars for a Euro fifty!

MaxBax

agent smith wrote:

The Chipper at the End of o'connell street ( beside spidernet) sells deep fried marsbars for a Euro fifty!

cinnellis? any chipper with batter a marsbar if you bring it in and ask. or they'll tell you to fo.

cuckoo

MaxBax wrote:

cinnellis? any cheaper with batter a marsbar if you bring it in and ask. or they'll tell you to fo.

The Sea Shell (go out westland row/pearse st bridge pedestrian gate, turn left, cross pearse st and go straight down lombard st east, take first left - voila!) will batter anything you bring in. Well, maybe they wouldn't batter and deep fry an Agent Smith for you, but there's always a chance...

Time Magazine

...sleep.

Seriously. I had three naps in the library today.

cuckoo

Angry Banana wrote:

...sleep.

Seriously. I had three naps in the library today.

*jealous*

I can't nap in public. Well, i can, but i shouldn't. Drool issues. And, snoring (it's been described as 'very cute, not too loud snorks', but i still don't think it'd be welcome in the library).

I have also been indulging in the sleep thing, but at home in my bed. I wish it were possible to bank up deposits of sleep, so that i could tell myself that i'm not actually procrastinating study with that long lie in, but i'm preparing myself for the busy term ahead so i'll be able to productively go without sleep then.

europerson

...a job interview and relationship difficulties.

Time Magazine

Good man on the job interview europerson!

Welcome to the Labour Force! (Well, hopefully).

arbeitsscheuer

...televised Champions League football interspersed with Fifa 06 on PS2.

Pet

A job interview/training, menial tasks and pointless tat. Oh, and a little bit of drinking too, just to drive the final nail in my study coffin.

Edwardius

Pet wrote:

A job interview/training, menial tasks and pointless tat. Oh, and a little bit of drinking too, just to drive the final nail in my study coffin.

thought you already had a job in "market research".??????????????????

Barry Aldwell

cuckoo wrote:

Well, maybe they wouldn't batter and deep fry an Agent Smith for you, but there's always a chance...

Only one way to find out....... *reaches for the tranquilizer gun*

Agent Smith

barry....



you wish

Pet

Dead Ed wrote:

thought you already had a job in "market research".??????????????????

yeah but I spent half the day being trained like the corporate monkey I am.