Several things
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narcasseMy hair is too long. It’s started doing that Nolanverse stylised Crane curls thing when it gets greasy. Of course the fact that it gets greasy if I don’t wash it every other day means that the organic products and treatment last month are working since my hair isn’t horribly dry and brittle anymore. Still, it needs to be shorter and when I get it cut again next month I’m going to say so. I also like the feel of not being able to run my fingers through my hair properly because it’s just that short at the end of the day.
My gym sent me an e-mail about coming back, with a free personal training session thrown in, on Thursday which was interesting of them. I spent over an hour there on Tuesday, at least I think I did, unless that was the week before. I have admittedly lost a day this week.
I need to work on a more holistic approach to time management. It’s all very well that I can carefully organise specific blocks of time but I can’t quite seem to put those set periods together effectively. I’m ending up doing things efficiently, at designated times, and then wasting time and energy in between doing what pretty much amounts to nothing. I’ve been running on five and a half hours sleep a night, not because I have too much to do, but because I can’t organise myself enough to go to bed at a sensible time. I can function on that much sleep a night but it’s a barebones functionality and requires lots of coffee and caffeine tablets to keep me going. I don’t like having to take caffeine tablets just to stay awake during the day any more than I like the fact that I’m having to take melatonin to knock me out at night. At least melatonin doesn’t have the same awful aftertaste as zimovane.
I need to find other things to do throughout the day other than reflexively smoke. I’m not even tasting the tobacco these days and I’m going through Marlboro Reds like they’re Silk Cut, or those Capri Superslims that just make me angry because there’s hardly any nicotine in them. I don’t even need the nicotine particularly: it’s just something to do to get me out of the building for a while. That said, with the seasons changing I might just stay indoors and read something instead. That might stop me compulsively buying scarves too. I’ve reached the point where I have one for every day of the week in regular rotation, should I want to wear them like that. Also, if I can curtail my urge to just flee the office at every opportunity it might stop me wasting so much money on coffee. Just because I have a Starbucks card doesn’t mean that I have to use it: unlike my Amex they won’t charge me a dormancy fee. Besides, if I stay in the office I might end up engaged in yet more conversations where people actually say things like "It is what it is." in complete seriousness.
Generally then what I need to do is stop compulsively doing at the current time. Succinctly put: I need to calm the fuck down for a change. Franticly doing is just the sort of behaviour that tends to get me into all sorts of trouble so I need to put a stop to that. I need to take the time to examine what I’m doing and why I’m doing it, and then I need to evaluate the worth of doing it at all, existential crises written into fic, aside.
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
— Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)
Time right now then to gather data and possibly sleep afterwards.
In entirely unrelated news: "We're clearly in a slash fic. I'm a much more attractive man and don't look like the backside of a fish..." is a line that will keep me amused for some time to come.
My gym sent me an e-mail about coming back, with a free personal training session thrown in, on Thursday which was interesting of them. I spent over an hour there on Tuesday, at least I think I did, unless that was the week before. I have admittedly lost a day this week.
I need to work on a more holistic approach to time management. It’s all very well that I can carefully organise specific blocks of time but I can’t quite seem to put those set periods together effectively. I’m ending up doing things efficiently, at designated times, and then wasting time and energy in between doing what pretty much amounts to nothing. I’ve been running on five and a half hours sleep a night, not because I have too much to do, but because I can’t organise myself enough to go to bed at a sensible time. I can function on that much sleep a night but it’s a barebones functionality and requires lots of coffee and caffeine tablets to keep me going. I don’t like having to take caffeine tablets just to stay awake during the day any more than I like the fact that I’m having to take melatonin to knock me out at night. At least melatonin doesn’t have the same awful aftertaste as zimovane.
I need to find other things to do throughout the day other than reflexively smoke. I’m not even tasting the tobacco these days and I’m going through Marlboro Reds like they’re Silk Cut, or those Capri Superslims that just make me angry because there’s hardly any nicotine in them. I don’t even need the nicotine particularly: it’s just something to do to get me out of the building for a while. That said, with the seasons changing I might just stay indoors and read something instead. That might stop me compulsively buying scarves too. I’ve reached the point where I have one for every day of the week in regular rotation, should I want to wear them like that. Also, if I can curtail my urge to just flee the office at every opportunity it might stop me wasting so much money on coffee. Just because I have a Starbucks card doesn’t mean that I have to use it: unlike my Amex they won’t charge me a dormancy fee. Besides, if I stay in the office I might end up engaged in yet more conversations where people actually say things like "It is what it is." in complete seriousness.
Generally then what I need to do is stop compulsively doing at the current time. Succinctly put: I need to calm the fuck down for a change. Franticly doing is just the sort of behaviour that tends to get me into all sorts of trouble so I need to put a stop to that. I need to take the time to examine what I’m doing and why I’m doing it, and then I need to evaluate the worth of doing it at all, existential crises written into fic, aside.
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
— Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)
Time right now then to gather data and possibly sleep afterwards.
In entirely unrelated news: "We're clearly in a slash fic. I'm a much more attractive man and don't look like the backside of a fish..." is a line that will keep me amused for some time to come.
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Date: 2010-10-18 03:57 pm (UTC)Watson saying 'I will end you' is a thing of beauty really XD