we looked at a rice cooker and an unknown recipe for crepes and decided the crepes would be simpler.

I totally understand this kind of preference. With the crepes you're doing something and you have to wait for the rice; when I took the T home after work and there was a line for the escalators I used to walk up all of the stairs at Porter rather than wait and thought of it as "because I was lazy" though technically it would be better described as something I did because I don't like standing around wasting time when I could be making progress.