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Who Can't Do Their Work?

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited December 2011
After my week of great strife I am finding it very hard to grade this enormous stack of papers. I wanted to be done by now, but I have only finished THREE (of 17). That is terrible.

What are you doing to trick yourself into doing your work?

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  • DeathDeath
    edited December 2011
    Mercury is retrograde. Everything is difficult right now.

    What has been working for me, during these crazy last few weeks of the term, is jogging off my scattered energy before I get to work. Also there was this interview with Rainn Wilson and he talked about his Bahai faith which I'm not that interested in. However, he mentioned that within that religion working hard and being useful is considered a way of worshiping. I like that idea for tricking my visceral brain self. Working hard and being useful as doing a solid for the universe.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I like that!
  • MatthewMatthew
    edited December 2011
    I got coconut lip balm. It is tropical.
  • 12341234
    Mercury is in retrograde a lot, isn't it?
  • DeathDeath
    edited December 2011
    I'm not sure. It sure seems like it. I'm not even sure what it means really, but it just shows up in my daily horoscope app every so often and never seems to mean anything good.
    Mercury is such a good scapegoat for problems.
  • DeathDeath
    edited December 2011
    I'm etching wood with lazers right now.
    Doing cool shit with lazers is also a good motivator!
  • LelandLeland
    edited December 2011
    UHX got too interesting again. I have to go somewhere else now to do my work. Maybe I will pretend that it is already two hours later than it really is.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Prof, just give them all C's. Or A's...
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    they all got a minuses
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I'm in Lake Oswego, near the Mormon temple, doing a temporary contract, working on cleaning up some css and design for these nice legal software folks! Just ate an Annie's "Cheddar Bowl" and it was DELICIOUS (cheese, tofu, potatoes, broccoli, peppers, carrots), but I'm still hungry, as is always the case with microwavable goods.

    It's pretty nice down here! I got up before 7 today to commute on the bus, which is a RARE OCCURRENCE.
  • MatthewMatthew
    Are they Mormon legal software folks?
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Not as far as I can tell. There is coffee in the office.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I try not to work for cults.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    "YACHT IS NOT A CULT. YACHT is a Band, Belief System, and Business."
  • LelandLeland
    Cult Identifier #17: Denial that the organization is a cult.
  • 12341234
    I like a workplace that is really committed to their product. Cults seem like they would be really really dedicated.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I have a friend who cooks for a cult... they are lucky he cares about making good food.

    After a meal everyone has to face him and sing "I love the light in you!"

    Otherwise, I would think the opposite.
    Cults = funding a few at the top = cutting corners

    Have'a chips are made by a cult though and they are the best
  • MatthewMatthew
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    I'm having trouble doing my work because I am in CANADA and my gps thingy doesn't know anything about PLACES IN CANADA!

    There was some angry/sweaty driving in circles and juggling iphone (using international roaming argh) before I went right back to the rent-a-car and got one of theirs.
    :(
    Dependent on the dumbest machine.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    God! That sounds terrible smello!!!!!!! Poor crab!

    My sister-in-law's brother is in a cult called People Unlimited, which is based on creepy all-family living-together sexy-dance type vaguely inappropriate stuff; working out and being super physically fit and healthy; and not believing in death. They think anyone who dies is just a loser who didn't work hard enough.

  • MatthewMatthew
    Cool cult.
  • LelandLeland
    Canadia is a cult.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    I really like it here but also keep not having as good of a time as I expected... is this confusion part of a brainwash?

    Tonight I can really do my work because I had a glass of wine and my king-sized bed is just great for laying out all my papers while surfing some Canadian cable.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Watching cable in a hotel room is one of my favorite things (especially on "business" trips).
  • LelandLeland
    edited December 2011
    What town are you in Ms. Owls?

    In my travels up north I've found that you have to get like five blocks away from wherever they put "Americans" before you can connect with Canadians in their natural state. Part of the cult?
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