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I should be working right now

strangeleftydoublethink — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:45:46 -0800

I'm looking for books and essays that would be the opposite of the Getting Things Done (GTD), Lifehacker, productivity, personal time management, etc., wave of blogs on the internets. I read The Abolition of Work by Bob Black many years ago. What else celebrates laziness, creative slacking, and general sloth?

On a sloth and pirañas: a book?

horseblind — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:46:18 -0800

I'm looking for a book about a sloth and pirañas. Do you know it? I have this memory of reading a book when I was a kid that was about a sloth and the pirañas that wanted to eat him. It was illustrated. The sloth lived in a tree near the river. As he climbed further up a branch it began to lean over the river. The pirañas spotted him from the river and would try to jump out of the water to get a bite of him. The branch and sloth were too high up for them to get to the sloth. As time went on the sloth would climb out further on the branch bringing him a bit closer to the pirañas. In my head I want to imagine that they eventually got him. Instead, I think his branch eventually broke and got lodged in another place (over waterfalls?) where the pirañas could not get to the sloth.

Does anyone else know of this book? Did I completely imagine this memory?

Help: weed related sloth / amotivational syndrome .

lalochezia — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:47:49 -0800

Help: weed related sloth / amotivational syndrome . So, I have this friend who lives in a country where marijuana use is tolerated. He’s happy as a clam. The drug enhances his creativity, makes sex, eating and simpsons watching way more enjoyable and is a pleasant indulgence every other week or so.

The problem happens over the next few days: the following day, he is in a torpor. Can’t be bothered to get out of bed. Not a hangover of headaches, etc, but just plain sloth – slightly heavy limbs, fuzzy thinking. If he has to get out of bed, no problem (i.e. for work) – but woe betide any weekend that sees MJ use the night before. Similarly, for the next couple of days, a mild melancholy decends on him where he’s a tad more miserable than usual.

Are there any pre / during / post chong activities or remedies this person can use to remove the listlessness and blueness from his post pot persona?