Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 20, 2024

The best laid plans o’ procrastinators and Caulfield . . .

things that make you go hmmm; are there anti-crastinators or perhaps amateur crastinators to offset the professional crastinators?

The whole point is not working when you know you should be.

Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow.

Get that little smarta$$.

Mrs Olsen knows her subject and her biggest pain.

I like Mrs. Olsen. She is yanking Caulfield’s chain under the ruse that she is doing him the favor of not having to procrastinate to get an assignment done….with nary even a hint of a smile while doing so.

He will wait and do it on the bus ride to school tomorrow morning.

Caulfield is a pro-crastinator. His theme song is Tomorrow, from Annie.

Hard work might pay out over time, but procrastination has immediate rewards

Fear as motivator.

I’ve always found that the assignments that I did immediately were desultory, but those which had time to simmer in my brain, abetted by deadline-adrenaline, were of higher quality and insight.

How will kids like Caulfield function as adults, do you suppose?

How does that work in the cartooning business?

Acid test Caulfield.

“Oh, crap, that’s due tomorrow?” Thos. Jefferson, July 3, 1776.

She’s just cheezed off because her boyfriend always finishes early.

When I gave an assignment that was due two weeks out, some of my students would go home and do it that night, then wait to hand it in. Most of them would put it off two weeks and do it the last night before it was due. A small number would not do it at all and would have to do it during recess, after school, or during a game day that they did not get to attend.