How Do Others Do It?

[amalthya]

How the fuck do people time manage? How does rosefox work on her own time and not just spend all day farting around on the internet?

Every time I take a break writing this paper, one hour becomes two. I have to finish today. I have to!

I am SURROUNDED by completed research. Books, papers, everything highlighted and annotated. So why am I not writing more?

I'm about halfway done. I got an extension for my Tuesday paper to Wednesday. But it's what, 9 pm and I took my bath two hours ago and I should really keep moving forward and BLAH. All I want to do is bake cookies and watch Hustle.

Comments

[rosefox]

a) Default View is my friend. It means that I can catch up in 24 hours of LJ entries in about half an hour to an hour depending on how many external links I follow. After that, there's not much to fart around doing.

b) Alarm Clock Pro is also my friend. I limit myself to working in four-hour bursts with a one-hour break in between; when the back-to-work alarm goes off, I pay attention. It helps that I have it set to play a specific song for each type of alarm, so I'm slowly conditioning myself to want to work when I hear King Missile's "Take Stuff From Work" and so forth.

c) Environmental changes are my best friend. Leaving the house really helps. So do cold air and cold drinks, which keep me alert.

Hang in there. You can do it.

[chanphenglew.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. When I returned to the US in 1990 to go to school, it took a while to get settled and organized. I ended up having to work, so I was working night shifts taking care of private patients on the weekends, so there wasn't much else to do but sleep. I have to say that I'm amazed by your discipline to study as much as you have - NYC is such an overstimulating place!

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

I'd give advice, but I tend to be completely panic driven, and end up staying up all night before a paper is due. Somehow it works for me.

[leighbug]

If it makes you feel any better, I don't manage my time!

[dankna.livejournal.com]

I think this is the kind of thing where it only appears easy for other people because you aren't there when they're having trouble with it.