And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


sj - Dec 14, 2005 1:28:08 pm PST #9879 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

sj, it sounds like you've built the paper up to be a bigger deal than it is.

I have. It's been 10 years of finishing some classes, and dropping out mid semester in a severe depressive state, so I have school built up to this crazy impossible thing in my mind. For some reason, I have been able to work through attending classes and taking exams fairly well, but papers just freak me out, which is weird because it used to be what I was best at.

I talk myself into doing "just one pan" and then I end up sprinting through the rest of them before I can change my mind. Momentum is a wonderful thing.

This is good. I'm going to try to start a bit tonight, without insisting that I have to get everything done.


sj - Dec 14, 2005 1:46:35 pm PST #9880 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I didn't mean to kill the thread with all the meme.


Nora Deirdre - Dec 14, 2005 1:48:23 pm PST #9881 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Pet peeve:

Clients who insist on giving bulky giveaways. No one wants to carry crap around. But they do love to bitch to us about it. Bah.


DavidS - Dec 14, 2005 1:48:48 pm PST #9882 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This is good. I'm going to try to start a bit tonight, without insisting that I have to get everything done.

You know how I get started on daunting writing projects? I circle around them a lot. I write notes. I re-read improtant sections and highlight quotes. I fiddle with my citations. I do rough outlines. Then I might try a few topic sentences for my key paragraphs. So that by the time I had to Write The Paper t /pooh case it was already half done. A lot of it become stitching things together.


Lee - Dec 14, 2005 1:49:14 pm PST #9883 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Feh on all the asshat bosses. Plus everything else everyone has already said.

(Our transit worker's union is threatening to strike. If they do....ugh. It will Not Be Pretty.)

My entire office is on high alert for Friday, in case there is a strike in NY and no one there can get into the office and all of the support work comes to us.


Nora Deirdre - Dec 14, 2005 1:51:57 pm PST #9884 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

You know how I get started on daunting writing projects? I circle around them a lot. I write notes. I re-read improtant sections and highlight quotes. I fiddle with my citations. I do rough outlines. Then I might try a few topic sentences for my key paragraphs. So that by the time I had to Write The Paper it was already half done. A lot of it become stitching things together.

This is exactly how I was able to write my papers. I was always surprised when they came together.


Pix - Dec 14, 2005 1:52:00 pm PST #9885 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Feh on all the asshat bosses.
Well you all know how much I love MY boss...

t bitter laughter

ION, I don't know what disturbs me more: that I found myself idly googling "monkey duffle bag" on ebay, or that ebay found me one. In pink, at that.


Cass - Dec 14, 2005 1:52:39 pm PST #9886 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Do what I do to get the dishes done: I talk myself into doing "just one pan" and then I end up sprinting through the rest of them before I can change my mind. Momentum is a wonderful thing.
This is actually very true for me as well. Even in the grips of the worst bits, if I can start on just one (for example) dish, I often get more done. Objects in motion and all...

Me: "Oh, yeah. Probably best to volunteer."
snerk


sj - Dec 14, 2005 2:02:42 pm PST #9887 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

This is actually very true for me as well. Even in the grips of the worst bits, if I can start on just one (for example) dish, I often get more done. Objects in motion and all...

This is how I am managing to get dinner done tonight. I made the salad when I got home, read here for a bit, and then I just put the pot of water on the boil for pasta set up the food processor to make the spinach pesto. Next, I am going to slowly clear off the table in between posts and then make the pesto closer to when Dave will actually be here. Long way of saying, I guess I have the skills, but I need to learn to apply them better to school. Getting that first little bit started is always the hardest thing for me.


Cass - Dec 14, 2005 2:16:16 pm PST #9888 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I'm not as good with the proactive bits like cooking, but I can sometimes talk myself into washing one glass and end up with actual clean dishes. This has not segued into my laundry so far though.