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semi-productive procrastination

(noun) what you do when you don't feel like working but aren't procrastinating either. instead, you're being semi-productive regarding what you should be doing. instead of doing your work, you're doing something related to it but completely unnecessary.

also: (verb) to semi-productively procrastinate.

also: (adj.) a semi-productive procrastinator.

DIFFERENT than productive procrastination because you're NOT being fully productive with random things other than your work, nor are you being fully productive with your actual job.
rather, you ARE being somewhat kinda productive towards what you should be doing (but aren't).

similar to quasimultislacking but not exactly.
friend: "i'm working on that current events assignment for tomorrow, how 'bout u?"
semi-productive procrastinator: "yeah me too! i've spent the past 20 minutes trying out different fonts."
friend: "that semi-productive procrastination will be the thing that brings your GPA down."
by effyes September 25, 2010
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Active Procrastination

The act of Procrastinating in an active manor having to do with what you're procrastinating. Such as making lists of what you should do first and planning out how you will do it instead of actually doing a given task.
Emma does active procrastination with her homework by making lists of what she should do first and then talking about doing it.
by Mb89 October 1, 2010
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computer procrastination

the art of ignoring all your pressing and important tasks while playing computer games.
i had three assignments to do in the weekend but i filled up my time with computer procrastination.
by TrIaNgLiSt BoB May 1, 2006
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scheduled procrastination

The act of scheduling tasks to be done at the last possible moment, thus allowing for a reasonable explanation as to why the person procrastinated in the first place.
Jeremy's scheduled procrastination allowd him to graduate from the University of Kentucky in seven years, instead of the standard four.
by BCEagle September 18, 2003
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Pre-Midterm Procrastination Disease (PMPD for short) is a disease reserved especially for the week before Midterms.
College and High School students are extremely vulnerable.
The most popular symptoms of the disease include:

Updating your facebook every 5-10 minutes hoping someone will reply.

Checking your emails constantly, hoping someone will send you something.

Texting your buddies for answers on test reviews and praying your teacher won't compare your work.

Speed reading your notes and claiming to your professor you've "studied well."

Crying for no apparent reason.

Writing papers at 2 in the morning.

Getting "distracted" constantly because of hunger or thirst.

There is one effective cure to this phenomenon.
The only possible cure is the winter break after testing, where students only have to really worry if they passed their midterms or not.
Girl: Hey, did you study for all of your midterms yet?
Guy: Nah, I'm suffering from Pre-Midterm Procrastination Disease.
by Moma Laquifa December 13, 2009
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productive procrastination

putting off doing something which really needs to be done by doing something else instead which needs to be done.
she was an expert in the art of productive procrastination always putting off doing things but getting so much else done instead being such a contrarian.
by DavidofOrgamianity.org July 29, 2012
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forced procrastination

When one must put off long-range assignments in order to do the homework that is due the next day in order to get any sleep at all.
The reason my research paper is a load of crap is because of forced procrastination: I had so much busywork I couldn't even breathe.
by W.T.Q. January 31, 2010
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