Changing things

A great procrastination opportunity opens up when something has to be changed.

Over at leaderswedeserve a mild procrastination outbreak has been facilitated by the Procrastination King.

Here we can see that it was the perennial THROWING THINGS AWAY DISCOURSE attracted the King. A second INTERVENTION was performed before the nom de plume had a home: the PROCRASTINATION KING BLOG.

COMMENTING - used on this blog is defined as the concept commenting on someone else's Blog - The King moves the blame, or should we say attempts to move the blame of his procrastination onto the TIME OF YEAR:

I am convinced it the time of year, the cusp of the seasons where everything stands still

He attempts to add weight to this by quoting a Chinese Cookery Book. It also must be said that the intervention is also clearly is an attempt to signal mastery of an ORGANISED PROCRASTINATION ENVIRONMENT - one which is not only reliant on COMPUTER AIDED PROCRASTINATION , a symptom of information technology being used to amplify variety rather that attenuate it, but also BOOK AIDED PROCRASTINATION:

A distraction - on my new Ikea ‘Billy’ bookcase (part of my new system!) - Vivienne and Jenny Lo, daughters of Restaurateur and food writer Kenneth Lo - In ‘150 Recipes from the Teahouse’ Acupuncturist and Chinese medicine scholar [Vivienne] writes:

“Grief is the emotion appropriate to autumn - as we review things past and let things go of old attachments to happier times a melancholy mood seems to compliment the wide skies…”

Changing from the COMMENTING strategy, after a productive morning tending to kitchen, garden and allotment chores, the King then decided to BURDEN A FRIEND VIA E-MAIL, perhaps unfairly taking advantage of a polite enquiry concerning general well being in the context of arranging a midweek drink with the OVER-LONG POSTSCRIPT continuing an already over-long e-mail containing further embellishments on I am convinced it the time of year, the cusp of the seasons where everything stands still PROCRASTINATION RIFF.

ps Please find attached spreadsheet detailing five elements -it is from a link from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_five_elements.

Let us consider cells 25 C and 25 G on this speadsheat: "Obsession
Thoughtfulness Reflexion Empathy Sympathy" and "WorryGrief Guilt
Regret Lamenting" and compare to the seasons in row 36. I assert that
procrastination is appropriate and in accordance to this system. (note
to self: i quite like the idea of composing a literary artefact in a
spreadsheet)

The King then attempts a crude bit of DIGGING. He attempts to interest the recipient, a macro economic modeller in the effects the Wu Xing has on the Chinese ecconomy.

I once read something about investment patterns in the Chinese
economy. It is vague in my mind, but i thing it was in the year of
the golden pig - a lucky year. I wonder if there has there been any
research into the effects of Wu Xing on the Chinese economy.

Later internet research revealed the probable source of the story,

Today marks the start of the Year of the Golden Pig, which comes round only every 60 years and is thought to be one of the luckiest. The Chinese belief that babies born this year will have a prosperous life has led to a fall in sales of condoms, and baby-related businesses are expecting a surge in demand. It is meant to be a great year for economies and markets too, with new highs predicted for shares.
Ruth Sunderland
Sunday February 18, 2007
The Observer

OF COURSE THE KING SLIPPED UP

Was his main mistake was to confuse Wu Xing with Chinese Horoscopes? Still it is interesting to note that the pig is associated with "Utmost Yin" (cell 21 E) which is essentially the most nurturing state the system can be in.

More research into the cultrual impact of Wu Xing on economic Chinese forecasting is required before this RIFF can RIDE A BEBOP BEAT.

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