On Punctuality

As most who know me can testify, I struggle regularly with the whole punctuality thing, but I’m getting better. By way of self-defense, however, here is writer Evelyn Waugh on the subject:

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
    — Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

Right on, brother.

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Comments

  1. Patrick Kerr says:

    or of course: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  2. you know, I always found it more efficient to be late… back when I was in school I was always purposely 15 minutes late since that was about the time when I could read everything that was on the board quickly before it was erased… would save 15 minutes in every class * 4 classes a day… as you can see it adds up :)
    Aydin.

  3. Stop kidding yourself with pithy quotes and denial — you are habitually late for the same reasons I am habitually late:
    1) Over-scheduled with too many projects;
    2) Poorly organized / bad time management skills;
    3) Self-involved;
    You can mock the people you (we) inconvenience with our lateness, quote Waugh & Emerson all day long, but please, don’t bullshit yourself in the process . . .

  4. Barry — Our ids need to talk.

  5. Isaac Garcia says:

    ….yet you still have time to write this blog.

  6. Yup, guilty as charged. Although the blog long-ago stopped, for better or worse, being an entirely recreational pursuit for me.
    Then again, as Barry self-critically points out in an early comment, my own punctuality problem, like his, is only partly to do with being over-committed.