Procrastination Formula

I told someone I would send them some soap and then said that owing to the usual procrastination, he would not get it for at least a week. Thinking about this today and how I have not yet put the package together, I started to consider what formula would adequately represent the Omalley procrastination factor.

Here's what I've come up with...

P = (1 + d) - x

• P = procrastination factor Omalley
  
• d = the number of days of procrastination
• x = often zero but is determined by the push factor of problem-related individuals

Maybe I could just refer to it like, "P factor of one" or "P factor of six" or something like that. P factor of one is quite reasonable and almost makes me look reliable. P factor of six is logically much worse.

Here's a couple scenarios:

1. Omalley receives an email stating that she needs to take something to the Cub Scout Pack meeting that evening. She puts it off, kind of remembers it, thinks she'll set it out, and then forgets it completely as she is yelling at son to put on socks with his shoes. Thus, if d=1/2 for the half-a-day she procrastinated, and x = 1 for the email her friend sent reminding her, the equation looks like this: P = (1 + 1/2) - 1 = 1/2. Not too offensive but still a negative result.
   
2. Omalley needs to make sales calls and drum up wholesale business for her soaps. She procrastinates months (d=a gazillion). Then she gets smart and asks a good friend to work on commission to be the cold-call person to set up sales appointments (x=18 for the number of days the friend has been enlisted to make calls). The equation looks like: P = (1 + a gazillion) - 18. For the sake of the math, we'll round d to 100 for the number of days Omalley put off making calls or finding someone else to do it. P = (1 + 100) -18 = 83. Yikes!

So, in the name of procrastinating on all the stuff I need to be doing right now, I've created a formula designed to make me feel worse about my procrastination. Not a good sign...