[Andorion]

Abyss, on 23 January 2016 - 06:20 AM, said:

Traveller, on 22 January 2016 - 07:40 PM, said:

Andorion, on 22 January 2016 - 12:53 PM, said:

So I finished the slogging legwork for my paper. Now I need to sit at home, read everything and produce something coherent.

Except I can't. I had the entire day, the house to myself, and I got 0 work done. I don;t know why I procrastinate, it always ends badly, but I always do this. How to get out of this funk?

Also I have a random headache from hell that just turned up in the last hour

I once took my keyboard apart while writing an essay with a next-day deadline. I had one key that was sticking.. I'm not sure what I was thinking, but soon it was all over the place.

Procrastination is an art..

You win.

Yeah.... the most I have done is browse the net instead of working

[Abyss]

worry, on 22 January 2016 - 10:29 PM, said:

I don't take rupees. I already have the largest bomb sack and arrow quiver, and I don't really care if Like Likes eat my shield.

This is a penis thing, right?

[Andorion]

Raging Cajun Gator King, on 23 January 2016 - 07:13 AM, said:

My mind is blown... It's snowing in Florida. Florida ...

What about your place?

[Tsundoku]

After watching India finally win a match after losing 4 straight to Australia in a 5 match one day international cricket series, I am coming to a few uncomfortable conclusions:

1. Generic drop-in pitches are bad, m'kay? Any mug with an oversized bat on a shrunken field can score centuries on a flat track. Bring back the contest between bat and ball. Bring back the individual character of the pitch at each venue. Make batsmen pants-shittingly terrified of the bounce at the WACA again, for starters.
2. Umpire-controlled DRS needs to be brought in as mandatory, to fix some of the dead-set shockers and take it out of the hands of the players. Won't happen though, because India controls cricket and India hates DRS.
3. I get the feeling the finances of not just Indian players need to be severely investigated. Some of the dropped catches by our guys were stuff a 12 year old would take easily.
4. After some of those shitty decisions, maybe the umpires finances need to be looked at too.

Highest number of runs scored in a 5 match series ever, with the lowest number of wickets. Probably most dropped catches too, but that's just a guess. Makes you wonder.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 23 January 2016 - 11:27 AM

[Gnaw]

Meh.

Just finished binge watching "Margin Call", "Too Big to Fail", and "The Big Short".

Fucking depressing shit.

[Mezla PigDog]

Death by DIY. I can't move without it hurting.

[HoosierDaddy]

What'd you try to do?

[Mezla PigDog]

We ripped down a wall, pulled down a ceiling and pulled up a load of floor tiles. And cleaned up. All successful but after 5 months of living on the sofa in my pyjamas it has killed just about every muscle in my body.

[HoosierDaddy]

Yowsa. I'd never try to do that on my own. Good for you!

[Abyss]

Mezla PigDog, on 25 January 2016 - 03:09 AM, said:

We ripped down a wall, pulled down a ceiling and pulled up a load of floor tiles. And cleaned up. All successful but after 5 months of living on the sofa in my pyjamas it has killed just about every muscle in my body.

Yknow Mez, you could just rewatch ALIENS without reenacting that scene...

[Andorion]

Mezla PigDog, on 25 January 2016 - 03:09 AM, said:

We ripped down a wall, pulled down a ceiling and pulled up a load of floor tiles. And cleaned up. All successful but after 5 months of living on the sofa in my pyjamas it has killed just about every muscle in my body.

erm.... for fun? Rats? Vicious flesh eating aliens?

[Mentalist]

Traveller, on 22 January 2016 - 07:40 PM, said:

Andorion, on 22 January 2016 - 12:53 PM, said:

So I finished the slogging legwork for my paper. Now I need to sit at home, read everything and produce something coherent.

Except I can't. I had the entire day, the house to myself, and I got 0 work done. I don;t know why I procrastinate, it always ends badly, but I always do this. How to get out of this funk?

Also I have a random headache from hell that just turned up in the last hour

I once took my keyboard apart while writing an essay with a next-day deadline. I had one key that was sticking.. I'm not sure what I was thinking, but soon it was all over the place.

Procrastination is an art..

I had a habit of cleaning my room, ironing all laundry, getting grocery shopping done, and sitting down to write a 25 pager at 10-11 PM with a 9 AM deadline.

deadline days were my most productive days. Except when I ran out of ink to print at 8: 20 AM.

[EmperorMagus]

I used to to do Aikido when I lived in Iran, but I stopped doing it when I had to study for university and then moved to Canada. Now that I have more free time I'm looking for a dojo around where I live and there is not one even remotely acceptable martial arts place anywhere nearby. They are all either to expensive (I'm living on a student budget, I can't really pay 200$ a month for 3 sessions a week of practice ...) or so disgustingly money grubbing I don't even want to go near them ( The title of the number 1 result in my google search " Bully proofing your kid with martial arts!").
My university has excellent martial arts classes but they start really early and I have a long ass commute so it's really impractical for me to do that too...
So yeah, I'm pissed that I can't find a good dojo to exercise at a couple of times a week.

In the spirit of complaining about procrastination, I have 3 approx. 2000 word "papers" due in the next two week and I haven't done anything for any of them. Writing intensive classes suck.

This post has been edited by EmperorMagus: 25 January 2016 - 08:23 AM

[Mezla PigDog]

Andorion, on 25 January 2016 - 05:16 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 25 January 2016 - 03:09 AM, said:

We ripped down a wall, pulled down a ceiling and pulled up a load of floor tiles. And cleaned up. All successful but after 5 months of living on the sofa in my pyjamas it has killed just about every muscle in my body.

erm.... for fun? Rats? Vicious flesh eating aliens?

HD - ripping out stuff is the easy bit as it requires no skill!

The people who owned the house before us liked to do renovations themselves despite no skill and from the quality of the job I suspect very little money. Instead of ripping out the bits they were replacing they just added. So the bathroom we have just done had 2 layers of tiles over every inch of wall. The kitchen had a very poorly built partition wall, a polystyrene ceiling and 3 layers of flooring - we have removed one so far. Two more to go before we have an electrician and a plasterer lined up in a couple of weeks before we get a new kitchen fitted.

We knew the house needed a lot of work when we bought it. It's the main reason we could afford it this close to London. We've had it 2 1/2 years and only did the main bedroom (which had a shower just kind of built into one corner and not remotely like an en suite) and the garden as we were lazy. Then we found out I was pregnant which was a bit of a surprise and as the other conversations in this thread prove, a deadline can really help you move along with a project! We spent Christmas doing the bathroom and still can't fit a shower while we wait for plaster to dry out in the middle of winter.....

This post has been edited by Mezla PigDog: 25 January 2016 - 07:43 AM

[Andorion]

Mezla PigDog, on 25 January 2016 - 07:42 AM, said:

Andorion, on 25 January 2016 - 05:16 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 25 January 2016 - 03:09 AM, said:

We ripped down a wall, pulled down a ceiling and pulled up a load of floor tiles. And cleaned up. All successful but after 5 months of living on the sofa in my pyjamas it has killed just about every muscle in my body.

erm.... for fun? Rats? Vicious flesh eating aliens?

HD - ripping out stuff is the easy bit as it requires no skill!

The people who owned the house before us liked to do renovations themselves despite no skill and from the quality of the job I suspect very little money. Instead of ripping out the bits they were replacing they just added. So the bathroom we have just done had 2 layers of tiles over every inch of wall. The kitchen had a very poorly built partition wall, a polystyrene ceiling and 3 layers of flooring - we have removed one so far. Two more to go before we have an electrician and a plasterer lined up in a couple of weeks before we get a new kitchen fitted.

We knew the house needed a lot of work when we bought it. It's the main reason we could afford it this close to London. We've had it 2 1/2 years and only did the main bedroom (which had a shower just kind of built into one corner and not remotely like an en suite) and the garden as we were lazy. Then we found out I was pregnant which was a bit of a surprise and as the other conversations in this thread prove, a deadline can really help you move along with a project! We spent Christmas doing the bathroom and still can't fit a shower while we wait for plaster to dry out in the middle of winter.....

Oh wow! Ok I can see how so many layers everywhere would be irritating, and shower in the main bedroom, WTF?

Now I have zero experience or knowledge of building/demolition/engineering, but aren't you worried about toxic materials and stuff coming out if you are taking down old structures?

[Mezla PigDog]

Not really, building regulations have been quite tight for a long time in this country. Houses the age of ours are likely to have asbestos in them. We are pretty sure we know where that is and it's only dangerous if you rip it out or drill into it. We've removed some bits of that, my previous background working with dangerous chemicals in labs made me pretty gung ho about it so we did it ourselves (with proper facemasks and overalls) and paid someone to take it away. The rest of it is toxic only if it burns - like the polystyrene ceiling, use of that material in houses has been against the law in this country since the late 1990's or something. We've made sure we have good smoke alarms. Anyway, this should be going into the Happy thread because it's brilliant that we are getting it done.

[Mentalist]

Bruised ankle. Also, got home past 1 AM last night due to a late game, barely alive at work, and my brain is refusing to get re-caffeinated.

On the topic of procrastination: I've accepted my limitations. I work most productively with a deadline looming, and I have a perfect understanding of just how much time of pure "work" I needed to put into a task to get it done.

Case in point was my term paper for my E-commerce course in law school. We had to write a standard 3k words (bout 2d pgs) research paper + do a presentation. I picked the topic at the beginning of the semester. Did absolutelynothing bar writing a proposal when that was due (I think there was a proposal to do?)

My presentation is due Tuesday, 7PM
Sunday, noon: I am awoken by a friend who locked herself out of her room (I was working as RA in rez, had the master keys). Get up, eat, go to work for 130 for a 5 hour shift. Get home, have dinner. Go out with a bunch of guys to play pickup soccer. Get back around 10, shower, unlock the kitchen in the basement, cook supper. Around midnight settle down to do research. Work all night. Go to lecture for 9 AM. Drop by the office at work (I worked on campus), spend a few hours doing extra hours. Come home, have lunch. Take a 1 hour nap. Off to soccer - intramural indoor co-ed quarterfinals with the faculty team. Play a man down b/c no one showed up. Win a game, have to play semis right away. Lose terribly (one of the players had to leave halfway through, so playing 2 people down). Come home, shower, eat, go to work for 5:30 for a 5 hour shift. Come home, grab a few slices of pizza my neighbours ordered. Settle in around midnight. Write all night-finish the paper. Go to lectures, lunch, spend a few extra hours at work. Take a nap, then afternoon lectures until 4. Spend the remainder of the day working on Power Point presentation and a handout to give to the class (had to find a flowchart-making program).
Go to class for 7 PM. Rattle off the presentation. Topic was obscure enough (a recent European Court decision about re-sale of software licenses and how software was product not services) so that no one has any questions. Sit down, start dozing off. Class ends @ 10 PM. Come home, eat pizza and chill. Crash round midnight.

Total time from start to finish: 60 hours. Total sleep time: about 3 hours (counting trying to stay awake in class after presenting). Final mark: B+

[Andorion]

Twisted my knee and I am pretty sure I had a short dislocation episode. Definitely felt the kneecap slide out and then back. This happened on the stairs so of course I fell down. Hurts a lot, it's swelling up, I need painkillers, but not sure if I have any at home and local shops are closed. Shit

[Maark Abbott]

First rejection. My length was too much*!

*Not but I do get it, 203k words for a debut is pretty heavy. And hey, rather an upfront 'it's too long for us' than to dance the dance of dancing, right?

[Tiste Simeon]

Maark, on 25 January 2016 - 03:57 PM, said:

First rejection. My length was too much*!

*Not but I do get it, 203k words for a debut is pretty heavy. And hey, rather an upfront 'it's too long for us' than to dance the dance of dancing, right?

That sucks but from what I know about writing, it's to be expected. You just got to keep trucking!