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Liz Smith | 10/07/2008 12:00 am

Liz Smith's 'Drug-Addicted Pleasure'

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In response to: What is your favorite form of procrastination?
Liz Smith

My favorite form of procrastination is READING. I would be proud of all I read but I have decided it’s just my form of drug-addicted pleasure. And a way to avoid the realities of life. My second form is to "organize, throw out, update, reorder the office, etc." This never works but it gives me the illusion of doing something worthwhile.


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georgia fatwood
I have a friend who calls this “patting her papers”….Nothing much really happens..it all just gets “ooched” a bit.
By georgia fatwood on 10/07/2008 5:42 am
marta pont
I do agree with you Liz about reading. Even though I hardly consider this activity procrastination. But, when times get rough ( and I live in a part of the world where “roughing it” is a common situation), immersing myself in the worlds of Trollope or Proust or even Gore Vidal’s -who I consider one of the best american authors of recent times- I release my “angst” & always get fresh outlooks on my present problems.
By marta pont on 10/07/2008 9:35 am
Eliza Dodd
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s food watchdog has ordered China-manufactured snacks from Nestle SA and Mars Inc to be taken off shelves after detecting melamine in their samples, it said on Saturday. The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said 2.38 parts per million (ppm) and 1.78 ppm of the substance were found in M&M’s milk chocolate snack and Snickers peanut Fun Size, both produced by Mars and manufactured in China. “We are urgently recalling the products due to melamine detection,” KFDA said in a statement. Mars said it was temporarily withdrawing the products from the Korean market because it was legally obliged to do so and that the melamine levels announced by the KFDA did not pose a health risk. Kit Kat bars from Nestle were also found carrying 2.89 ppm of melamine, bringing the total number of melamine-detected items to 10 in Seoul. Nestle said the KFDA asked it to withdraw one batch of mini Kit Kat made in China from the market, after their tests detected minute traces of melamine in a single batch out of eight Nestle confectionery items tested. No melamine was detected in the other seven products, the company said. “The company immediately complied with the authorities’ request, even though this product is absolutely safe by recognized international standards,” Nestle said in a statement. “South Korea has no regulations on maximum levels of melamine in food, and the conditions under which the South Korean authorities conducted their tests are unclear,” it added. Melamine, widely used in kitchen utensils, can pose serious health risks if consumed in large quantities. At least four children in China died after drinking tainted infant milk formula last month. Continued…
By Eliza Dodd on 10/07/2008 9:42 am
Susan Gabriel
Reading is my addiction, too. Life would be such a dull romp without it.
By Susan Gabriel on 10/07/2008 3:13 pm