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kiralamouseThis "keeping up on homework" thing seems to be working. I'm actually not stressed out, guilty-feeling, exhausted, etc. And at this rate, I may actually not have anything to do tomorrow! WOW!
Of course, it helps when the roomie is gone most of the evening, allowing me to randomly flit from movie to CD to silence to singing to reciting my poetry hw out loud since it's so hard to follow silently. But still, it feels good to be disciplined, have relatively interesting work to do, and sufficient free time to do my time-wasting brand of multitasking (ie one productive task amidst many unproductive ones).
In this manner, I got to watch Mask of Zorro on TV and follow it with watching A Knight's Tale. I wanted to get Midsummer Night's Dream to watch as I read the play for homework, but I have to say, watching Knight's Tale while glancing at a Chaucer biography was almost as good. Except Knight's Tale was slightly less true to its material...
And I actually need less sleep, like two-three hours less per night. I seriously think most of my time-wasting problems and need for sleep come from trying to deal with habitual boredom, needing to drastically slow my mental pace to fill the time... the slow pace doesn't work so well when there's something to be accomplished. But "productive mode" results in boredom within an hour on an ordinary free day.
Anyway, we'll see how long this lasts. I've gone two-three weeks in productive mode before. It usually stops either because a big project suddenly rears its head and throws me off, or I spend too much time on the computer and start feeling a need to defrag the brain, or I get overconfident and mess up.
Here's hoping.
And I'm not talking in third person anymore!
Of course, it helps when the roomie is gone most of the evening, allowing me to randomly flit from movie to CD to silence to singing to reciting my poetry hw out loud since it's so hard to follow silently. But still, it feels good to be disciplined, have relatively interesting work to do, and sufficient free time to do my time-wasting brand of multitasking (ie one productive task amidst many unproductive ones).
In this manner, I got to watch Mask of Zorro on TV and follow it with watching A Knight's Tale. I wanted to get Midsummer Night's Dream to watch as I read the play for homework, but I have to say, watching Knight's Tale while glancing at a Chaucer biography was almost as good. Except Knight's Tale was slightly less true to its material...
And I actually need less sleep, like two-three hours less per night. I seriously think most of my time-wasting problems and need for sleep come from trying to deal with habitual boredom, needing to drastically slow my mental pace to fill the time... the slow pace doesn't work so well when there's something to be accomplished. But "productive mode" results in boredom within an hour on an ordinary free day.
Anyway, we'll see how long this lasts. I've gone two-three weeks in productive mode before. It usually stops either because a big project suddenly rears its head and throws me off, or I spend too much time on the computer and start feeling a need to defrag the brain, or I get overconfident and mess up.
Here's hoping.
And I'm not talking in third person anymore!
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Date: 2004-01-24 05:53 pm (UTC)Off to read Plato, where we find our hero Socrates defending himself against charges of corrupting the youth of Athens...