Comments | karanguni: The effective way to kick your own ass (tm)

karanguni

The effective way to kick your own ass (tm)

Jun 11, 2009 20:52

I am exhausted to the point of wanting to break things; work was fantastically bad today, and boss comes back tomorrow with what will likely be a cannister of whoop-ass, so I am going to stay up late tonight doing a Hundred Thousand Productive Things, but first ( Read more... )

work is a degenerative disease, getting my ass kicked is such a turn on

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anonymous June 11 2009, 13:12:12 UTC

I procrastinate horribly xD So when I do need to kick my arse into gear I put my computer away where I can't look at it and paper write until my hand cramps because it's easier to do things pen and paper for me lol. (Even though its so old school and I always get ink/lead on my hand because I'm a lefty. DX)

karanguni June 11 2009, 13:14:06 UTC

!! I do that too - I'm a huge fan of putting things down on paper when I start blanking on in front of a computer screen. (!! WHY ARE ALL THE PEOPLE IN MY LIFE LEFTIES; one day I will complete my aim of ambidexterity!)

anonymous June 11 2009, 13:23:10 UTC

xD I like it better that way, especially for when you suddenly get inspiration for a paper/random insight/etc. so you don't have to be like 'Oh snap where is my lappy!?!?' (>3>;; Hahaha I'm the only person in my entire family that's a lefty, who knows where thay came from. Plus *FISTPUMP* YOU CAN DO IT!!)

karanguni June 11 2009, 13:31:55 UTC

(My whole family is righty, but the generation above mine is disturbingly lefty-like, SO WHO KNOWS.) 8D

intradependency June 11 2009, 13:27:15 UTC

chocolatl

8D

Self-bribery with said chocolatl. In cubes, well spaced; fifteen minutes of productivies = one block, fifteen minutes of non-productivity = 0.5 of a block. After an hour, 152% of chocolatl consumed, therefore caffeine/sugar high, therefore productivity ensues regardless?

intradependency June 11 2009, 13:27:34 UTC

productivities, even.

karanguni June 11 2009, 13:31:06 UTC

Ugh, thou shalt not reply with friend's ljs by accident.

Mmm, fic and work babies with chocolate. I have horrible resistance against food items: I just om the whole damn lot. BUT I'VE DONE YOUR CHOCOLATE RATION THING... WITH PORN FICS BY GOOD WRITERS. Pathetic, but true.

I think it is also a masochistic character trait of mine that being embarrassed fuels supreme productivity in an attempt to never be embarrassed again oh lords of mortification strike me down.

intradependency June 11 2009, 17:10:04 UTC

WITH PORN FICS BY GOOD WRITERS???? As in, you make yourself read porn and eat chocolate as a reward...

OH HANG ON, I GET IT. You do work, THEN READ PORN as the reward. :D

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aikonamika June 11 2009, 15:04:47 UTC

Since I'm rather badly ADD (even with the help of meds), I have a few routines. Clearing my desk/workspace of all distractions helps, as well as making sure to close out of internet browsers plus whatever else I might have open on my computer at the time other than what I need to work on, if it's a writing thing. Basically, eliminate whatever distractions I can. I've also got a few medidation routines that help me calm my mind down and shut it up a little bit.

Then I take a timer of some sort - usually an alarm clock, though just having a clock in a place where I can watch helps to, and I get to work for a certain amount of time. Usually half an hour to forty-five minutes. When that time is over, I give myself permission to take a break and go do something short and entertaining, for about fifteen minutes to half an hour. Then I get back to work, and repeat that pattern. Of course, if I'm in a groove, I'll just keep going with whatever it is until I fall out of said groove, and then I take my break and get back to work ( ... )

karanguni June 11 2009, 18:12:52 UTC

Small goals are hugely useful! 8D I do that too when it comes to crunch time for huge projects that require concentration. It's as though if you step back and looked at how much you have to do you'd end up screaming, so you break it all down and snipe it off bit by bit... :D

glass_icarus June 11 2009, 17:20:13 UTC

I PROCRASTINATE, AND THEN SPUR MYSELF WITH DEADLINE-LOOMING PANIC. I AM NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE. xD

karanguni June 11 2009, 18:13:17 UTC

I DO THAT ALL THE TIME IT IS, IN FACT, MY MODUS OPERANDI!!! 8D

22by7 June 11 2009, 17:50:39 UTC

So you ended up with Fagles's Iliad? Nat bad, nat bad at al. I am still wondering whether I should get his transln of the Odyssey or not (I have four different Iliads as of now).

To kick my ass into motion, ideally I put on incredibly rousing instrumental music and start drawing perverted shit. At the end of about half an hour or an hour of this, I feel cheered up enough to go on merely avoiding to fail at life.

karanguni June 11 2009, 18:09:49 UTC

I tried! I TRIED 2 whole books of Lattimore, and then the urge to strange myself overcame the urge to be all Literal and Greek, and I fled to Fagles, which I am enjoying tremendously. I just did 10 books in three hours and my head is kind of falling off, but he's tremendously good. I don't even remember what time I started reading, but I didn't quite notice that it's turned 2am all of the sudden...

I read The Odyssey using his translation, and it was full of awesome!

:D :D: D ROUSING MUSIC IS EXCELLENT.