erruviate 

To procrastinate (often from study or homework) in a productive manner (e.g. to learn something which is unrelated to what you should be learning)

Amy should have been writing an essay, but she erruviated for an hour to learn some new Italian words.

erruviate by Sancti Andreae November 19, 2012

erruviate 

To procrastinate in a semi-productive way

I erruviated so much yesterday: instead of doing my essay, I organised all my DVDs alphabetically.

erruviate by cboecking November 21, 2012

Erruviate 

Verb.

To procrastinate by doing activities that are useful, but not getting round to the task in hand, eg. cleaning your room to avoid writing an essay.

Last night I erruviated for hours and ended up learning some Italian.

Erruviate by a557 November 21, 2012

erruviation 

The act of erruviating; procrastinating while doing something productive.

Although it didn't help him write his German essay, Conor spent a few hours learning Russian folk-songs and concluded that erruviation was always better than procrastination.

Proverb: Procrastination makes one sin; but by erruviation doth one win.

erruviation by Sancti Andreae April 1, 2013