Oops. Missed out yesterday!
Oct. 3rd, 2009 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clo_againAnd I'm only making today by two hours. *shame* So today, have two!
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
Day four: a site
After some hmm-ing and haw-ing between this and Tor, I decided to go with http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/. Why? Because I was procrastinating a week or so back and reading the essay on the main page, along with another essay there regarding Procrastinators as Perfectionists, has helped a lot in making me write more over the last week. The last couple of days or so I've really started pushing into couch-potato territory again, so I'm going to reread the essays and I expect, again, they'll help. It's also really nice to know that I'm far from being the only person in the world to put important stuff off like this. (For example, my grad application still hasn't been looked at because right now I'm telling myself relearning to write is more important because it's what I want to do. Yeah.
If you're like me and tend to put things off and off for no particular reason, it's a really helpful site. Or if you're one of those (sorry, but to us procrastinators you kind of are sometimes ;) ) irritating people who has no problem with motivation? It might help you to get a little less pissy with us next time we miss our deadlines.
Day five: a youtube clip
I can't remember if I recced this when I first saw it but it's worth reccing again: Elephant Jumping on a Trampoline by Nicholas Deveaux. Have you ever seen that incredibly cute LJ icon of an elephant bouncing up and down on a trampoline with its trunk waving up and down? This is where it's from. Maybe everyone else knew that but I only found it a month or so back (through Twitter? Though I can't remember who) and there was much glee. Just that someone out there has put time and money into making this, makes me so unspeakably happy with humanity.
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composim, the book was posted this morning. :D Hope it gets there okay.
Actually re. the book, my mother proved once again why sometimes I just don't want to be related to her. She was all "But you're just paying the postage?! You're just GIVING IT AWAY? You can't afford it! That's really stupid!"
And I said "...Hello, working? Plus you just spent the same as the postage on a banana cake you didn't need but just have to have. Don't you ever just want to do something nice for people for, you know, the sake of making people happy?"
She didn't really have an answer for that but she didn't agree. -_- Seriously, I like my generation a whole lot better. On the whole we like to do nice things for other people. It's a good way to approach life.
On which note, I really need to go answer emails, LJ comments and let the cat out. :) And try to pick just one quote for tomorrow because seriously? One? :-/
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
Day four: a site
After some hmm-ing and haw-ing between this and Tor, I decided to go with http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/. Why? Because I was procrastinating a week or so back and reading the essay on the main page, along with another essay there regarding Procrastinators as Perfectionists, has helped a lot in making me write more over the last week. The last couple of days or so I've really started pushing into couch-potato territory again, so I'm going to reread the essays and I expect, again, they'll help. It's also really nice to know that I'm far from being the only person in the world to put important stuff off like this. (For example, my grad application still hasn't been looked at because right now I'm telling myself relearning to write is more important because it's what I want to do. Yeah.
If you're like me and tend to put things off and off for no particular reason, it's a really helpful site. Or if you're one of those (sorry, but to us procrastinators you kind of are sometimes ;) ) irritating people who has no problem with motivation? It might help you to get a little less pissy with us next time we miss our deadlines.
Day five: a youtube clip
I can't remember if I recced this when I first saw it but it's worth reccing again: Elephant Jumping on a Trampoline by Nicholas Deveaux. Have you ever seen that incredibly cute LJ icon of an elephant bouncing up and down on a trampoline with its trunk waving up and down? This is where it's from. Maybe everyone else knew that but I only found it a month or so back (through Twitter? Though I can't remember who) and there was much glee. Just that someone out there has put time and money into making this, makes me so unspeakably happy with humanity.
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composim, the book was posted this morning. :D Hope it gets there okay. Actually re. the book, my mother proved once again why sometimes I just don't want to be related to her. She was all "But you're just paying the postage?! You're just GIVING IT AWAY? You can't afford it! That's really stupid!"
And I said "...Hello, working? Plus you just spent the same as the postage on a banana cake you didn't need but just have to have. Don't you ever just want to do something nice for people for, you know, the sake of making people happy?"
She didn't really have an answer for that but she didn't agree. -_- Seriously, I like my generation a whole lot better. On the whole we like to do nice things for other people. It's a good way to approach life.
On which note, I really need to go answer emails, LJ comments and let the cat out. :) And try to pick just one quote for tomorrow because seriously? One? :-/
