December 9, 2005

Tomorrow, I Love Ya!

By ERIC HOOVER

Researchers are learning more about chronic dawdlers but see no easy cure for procrastination

Joseph R. Ferrari has a name for people who dillydally all the time. Sometimes, he spits out the term as if it were stale gum or a polysyllabic cuss word. When he dubs you a "chronic procrastinator," however, he does not mean to insult you. He is just using the psychological definition for someone who habitually puts things off until tomorrow, or next week, or whenever. The afflicted need not

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