In the last month and change

[taennyn]

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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[taennyn]

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

[zero_pixel_count]

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

[taennyn]

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?

[zero_pixel_count]

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?

[taennyn]

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.

[zero_pixel_count]

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

[taennyn]

'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. =\)

[zero_pixel_count]

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?