i’ve decided i’ve really got to start working harder. i’ve been gradually improving throughout the semester, and i’m really proud of myself, but i still need to do more. since “work hard, play hard” just doesn’t work for me, i’ll just have to enjoy my work more 🙂 that’s the part i’ve been getting better at… and, as the beatles said, “it’s getting better all the time…”
i think, what do i spend all my time doing, anyway? i’m tired and then i don’t feel like doing work, but instead of going to sleep (which is a productive thing to do), i tell myself i should be up working. what happens is i don’t sleep, and i don’t work, but i procrastinate and waste my time playing freecell or something. so my new idea is that i should always be doing something productive, which doesn’t have to necessarily be homework. “productive” can mean going out for a run, reading a for-fun book i’ve been meaning to read for months, sleeping, etc.
i hope this works! if so, i should be much happier and much more productive overall.
[note, 4/10/14: Imported from my old blog at satsumabug.livejournal.com. This was one of my very first posts; I’m not making all of them public.]
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This is sooooo relatable! I feel like the situation described in the first half of paragraph two is my current situation. I love the solution your 2001 self came up with for it and I’m taking notes.
This is so relatable! I resonate so much with what you are describing in the first half of paragraph two. It’s twenty-five years later and I haven’t graduated from that problem. I appreciate the solutions your 2001 self came up with. I’m taking notes.
Oh my gosh I am so so so delighted to be communicating with you here. It was not easy to find your comments — WP had flagged them as spam, and I didn’t even remember that there was a spam folder *inside* WP (as opposed to in my email), but I knew you’d commented because you told me so, and finally this afternoon I remembered this and went looking. HELLO *heart eyes*