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Mens sana in corpore sano is my motto.
It is incredibly hot up here in my third-floor garret (hey, I can tell people I spent a year as a starving artist in a garret now!), and they have turned off the air conditioning. This is just not on, man.
I currently have e-mail comment notification turned off on this journal, and every so often I feel like procrastinating and read back over old fic posts, and find that somebody left effusive praise two weeks ago, and I never noticed, and I feel terrible.
Speaking of procrastination, the late great Robert Benchley once wrote an article (which I have in anthology) entitled How To Get Things Done, which I have found to be the best method I know of for overcoming that crippling disease.
The basic idea is this: You start by listing everything you need to get done, in order of priority, and pick out the absolutely most vital and underline it in red. Like so:
1.Do daily writing!
2. Do chem and structural problems and poem for class
3. Do reading for class
4. Code for FA
5. Get books and papers organized
6. Update lj
The key to this is to convince yourself that the first item of the list *absolutely must be done*, and now, to swear to yourself that you'll do it before anything else. And before you know it, it's evening, and everything /else/ on the list has been accomplished, and you feel like you've had a productive day.
I currently have e-mail comment notification turned off on this journal, and every so often I feel like procrastinating and read back over old fic posts, and find that somebody left effusive praise two weeks ago, and I never noticed, and I feel terrible.
Speaking of procrastination, the late great Robert Benchley once wrote an article (which I have in anthology) entitled How To Get Things Done, which I have found to be the best method I know of for overcoming that crippling disease.
The basic idea is this: You start by listing everything you need to get done, in order of priority, and pick out the absolutely most vital and underline it in red. Like so:
1.Do daily writing!
2. Do chem and structural problems and poem for class
3. Do reading for class
4. Code for FA
5. Get books and papers organized
6. Update lj
The key to this is to convince yourself that the first item of the list *absolutely must be done*, and now, to swear to yourself that you'll do it before anything else. And before you know it, it's evening, and everything /else/ on the list has been accomplished, and you feel like you've had a productive day.
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Maybe if you double-underline (in red) the less urgent things on your to-do list, then you'll be able to write more easily? I swear, even the most intelligent of brains aren't averse to the most simple of reserve psychologies!
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Yeah, I hope it isn't a hot winter, but I don't want all the snow we got last year, I don't wanna be trapped at my house again... Unless of course I manage to get people to all visit first *muhah*
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I hope there's lots and lots and lots of snow again. Actually, somewhat warmer temperatures can mean more snow, depending.
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I find that the making of to-do lists is just another form of procrastination, unfortunately. Though in your case, I guess you only get to make it once, as opposed to having an ever-changing list of buggy/featury things.
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You are *evil*.