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I have attended an above-my-technical-skills seminar, seen Delta Rae live (tl; dr: go if they're near you. bring ear protection), written five exams (the two immediately following the seminar felt not-awesome, lemme tell ya), started my volunteer hours for the grad application, assisted in another class' midterm exam*, given my car to my mother, been offered a sooort-of job opportunity, started househunting, taught a little pilates...

I'm going to try to post at least once a week; if you don't see anything, peer at me? I'm spending a lot of social points inperson so the 'post the things' circuit is getting interrupted.

*: Can anybody think of something I'm not Hard Mode on? I'm kind of drawing a blank. O.o;

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"Can anybody think of something I'm not Hard Mode on?"

*cheery* nope! Have you ever heard of a thing called "downtime"? :P

I was thinking in the sense of other people playing the game of me, but fair point!

As for 'downtime' I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, because surely there's a shoe somewhere I've neglected.

I think downtime may BE the neglected shoe :P (Although actually feel free to ignore me because in reality I have no idea how many hours all those things that sound like big things are taking up and how much sleep /etc you actually need, sooo...)

Entirely possible. But how do I do downtime. *squints at it* (I am perpetually insomniac. It's a longrunning issue. =\)

...I suppose becoming temporarily obsessed with a computer game is not an option... Hmm. Books? TV?

Not really, no.

I watch a few crime procedural shows and documentaries. Mostly while working on other things like business entries or homework, so they're essentially background noise. And I do sometimes try to just sit and squint at a documentary episode or something without trying to do anything else?

Yeah, books might be better for the not trying to do two things at once thing.. But then again, would you just end up putting them down to do something else?

Might, yeah. Getting myself to pick one up that's not actively relevant to a project of some sort is a trick in and of itself, though. =\ I have a lot of unread/partially read research books lying around.

It is slowly becoming apparent to me that I have basically no appropriate suggestions remaining :P

'For the love of fuck, Tae, it is okay not to be doing something all the waking hours of the day' counts as appropriate, if only because it's now coming from an outside source. >.>

(I don't mean to be stonewalling you, and I'm sorry if I'm coming across that way. One could make a case for my brain being a Calvinist asshole at times. =\)

Hehe no, it was more that I basically have 3 'right that's it brain needs downtime' activities in my life and you don't play computer games and we've talked about books and, well, MY brain has a hard reset button but I think if that was an option you would probably have worked it out by now.

You were coming across as frustrated rather than stonewalling tbh. Can you manipulate your planning strategy so that you come to the end of jobs-for-the-day before you run out of day? Would that help the wind-down?

Before you were level grinding; now you're working your way up to the boss? =D

I was actually thinking in the sense of people interacting with me, but fair point.

(I am going to be so confused if the grad program swoops down and snatches me off the ground as soon as I put in an application/start the process. 'Surely this is supplication to cold mountain gods? Yes/yes? .... Why am I FLYING')