So, I’ve started writing an article related to this in collaboration with another LWer. One of my goals is that like the idea of contributing content to the site. I was also curious, and I feel that the majority of my personal curiosity is satisfied, and finishing the project by communicating what I learned to others is what is being difficult. There are several reasons for this. One is that I can always learn more, and make a better article. I’ve also realized this is a lower priority than my school/work activities, so it keeps being put off.
Whether or not to keep working on this (the topic was physical intuition) is something I have been discussing w/ other Seattle LWers. I wrote a summary recently, which made writing a paper seem less daunting. However, it also revealed tons of gaps in my research which I had filled in with speculation. I got a book to read. I am still putting this at low priority over schoolwork, especially now that school has started.
I was a summer camp counselor for a gifted education camp, and many of the kids there are quite lonely, so I am writing an article about keeping in touch with the friends they made there.
Wrote an article, never finished it because I was too lazy to edit it. Probably wouldn’t be that much effort to actually finish.
I have an incomplete in a class, and I have the final paper about halfway done.
Yay. Wrote paper. Now to get prof to change grade.
Also more than halfway done with a report/presentation for work.
Finished.
Separating work and socializing, so that I can do each more effectively. Allocating time for each.
Separating work and socializing is going ok—definitely better. With more, smaller chunks of good socializing, (rather than rare, long, exhausting periods) I feel better.
If I am working and my roommates come home and are being social, I try and make the decision to either go to my room, or to put down my books and talk, or at least recognize that I won’t be very productive and that is ok.
I want to learn better ways of tearing myself away from a crappy/less interesting situation and dismissing myself while keeping on good social terms. Sometimes I am torn in the middle. Usually with television—it catches my attention and I don’t commit to watching or leaving to go do something else and ignore it.
I’m starting to exercise more. I used to just run, and only sometimes. I’ve been doing some non-weights exercises pretty often. Part of this is focused on posture, but otherwise pretty general. I’m getting better at paying attention to when exercising would feel fun, and I am surprised that I have the right energy level to do something at least at some point almost every day.
Everything else I’ve been doing is just school stuff.
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Whether or not to keep working on this (the topic was physical intuition) is something I have been discussing w/ other Seattle LWers. I wrote a summary recently, which made writing a paper seem less daunting. However, it also revealed tons of gaps in my research which I had filled in with speculation. I got a book to read. I am still putting this at low priority over schoolwork, especially now that school has started.
Wrote an article, never finished it because I was too lazy to edit it. Probably wouldn’t be that much effort to actually finish.
Yay. Wrote paper. Now to get prof to change grade.
Separating work and socializing is going ok—definitely better. With more, smaller chunks of good socializing, (rather than rare, long, exhausting periods) I feel better.
If I am working and my roommates come home and are being social, I try and make the decision to either go to my room, or to put down my books and talk, or at least recognize that I won’t be very productive and that is ok.
I want to learn better ways of tearing myself away from a crappy/less interesting situation and dismissing myself while keeping on good social terms. Sometimes I am torn in the middle. Usually with television—it catches my attention and I don’t commit to watching or leaving to go do something else and ignore it.
I’m starting to exercise more. I used to just run, and only sometimes. I’ve been doing some non-weights exercises pretty often. Part of this is focused on posture, but otherwise pretty general. I’m getting better at paying attention to when exercising would feel fun, and I am surprised that I have the right energy level to do something at least at some point almost every day.
Everything else I’ve been doing is just school stuff.