I don't know where we're going, but it can only be 5K away (Part whatever)

Autosport

Gremlinertia wrote: »

More into hooters than quackers i imagine :P

Who Seph or Mr Quackers

Gremlinertia

Autosport wrote: »

Who Seph or Mr Quackers

Seph doesn't seem to be offering insight here

Sephiroth_dude

Autosport wrote: »

Who Seph or Mr Quackers

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Seph doesn't seem to be offering insight here

Gremlinertia

Cat looks like it drank the contents of at least the little firkin

Autosport

An evil look on that cat

Sephiroth_dude

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Cat looks like it drank the contents of at least the little firkin

There just very sleepy actually gremlin :rolleyes:

Autosport wrote: »

An evil look on that cat

Take that back :mad:

Gremlinertia

"sleepy" or skinful? :pac:

Autosport

Seph you know it’s true

Leg End Reject

Bedside after looking at the man in the moon. Did you all believe that as kids or was I particularly naive?

Gremlinertia

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Bedside after looking at the man in the moon. Did you all believe that as kids or was I particularly naive?

I sang along with the woman in the moon (Luna, bear in the big blue house) until recently enough

Gremlinertia

Shutters cam down early here!. I shall sup my tae and survey my kingdom.

SnowyMay

Gremlinertia wrote: »

I sang along with the woman in the moon (Luna, bear in the big blue house) until recently enough

Now there's an earworm!!

Wide awake again. Cant believe it! May have to accept that I'm some sort of vampire now.

Gremlinertia

SnowyMay wrote: »

Now there's an earworm!!

Wide awake again. Cant believe it! May have to accept that I'm some sort of vampire now.

Aww feck it.. That's no good..

SnowyMay

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Aww feck it.. That's no good..

Yeah. Stupid weird body clock.

But, if Bruce Wayne can manage his empire after fighting crime all night, then I can make it after sitting on the couch for a few hours!

How's you Grem?

Gremlinertia

Never saw Bruce on the coffee now you mention it..

I'm ok, have an appointment tomorrow at two so have to be up early but i'll flop on the couch after no doubt.

SnowyMay

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Never saw Bruce on the coffee now you mention it..

I'm ok, have an appointment tomorrow at two so have to be up early but i'll flop on the couch after no doubt.

I'd say Alfred must have been slipping some wakey wakey pills into his breakfast.

Good luck with the appointment!

Gremlinertia

I always thought Alfred was running the show much more than was let on..

Autosport

Morning all Happy Tuesday!!!

Too early to be awake I’ll pop the kettle on

Gremlinertia

That reminds me, need to get milk, ta Auto

Ted_YNWA

Good Moaning all.

Too early to be human.

Gremlinertia

Ted staying in bear form for the morning at least. I'll get the runny hunny

IamMetaldave

What's this talk of ol Bruce and Alfred!

Morning all, another long weekend away from the internet! I have begun to absolutely swear by it for being a happier person!

This mornings sunrise (or a few minutes later) comes to you from the Vico road, a change from the pier for my walk.

Princess Calla

IamMetaldave wrote: »

What's this talk of ol Bruce and Alfred!

Morning all, another long weekend away from the internet! I have begun to absolutely swear by it for being a happier person!

Well now, you can take all the internet breaks you need, but we want the back catalogue of sunrise pics

Is that a planet beside the sun or some type of lens flare ? ( I might be winning the stupidest qs award today, ah well )

IamMetaldave

Princess Calla wrote: »

Well now, you can take all the internet breaks you need, but we want the back catalogue of sunrise pics

Is that a planet beside the sun or some type of lens flare ? ( I might be winning the stupidest qs award today, ah well )

Haha! I have been taking pictures with my "proper" camera mostly... the pictures are hit or miss as I am still getting the hang of not having Apple doing all the work for me

That's a flare!

So, turns out that trying to do a college course is definitely harder than I thought!
I have 2 assignments, which seem to involve a lot of reading, reading what exactly I don't know, nor do I have any idea where I'm supposed to find 'reading'
If I do actually manage to figure that out, I then have to write these assignments. Made the mistake of watching few videos on academic writing & I now feel stupider then before!!!

Hope I can do this.

Church on Tuesday

bubblypop wrote: »

So, turns out that trying to do a college course is definitely harder than I thought!
I have 2 assignments, which seem to involve a lot of reading, reading what exactly I don't know, nor do I have any idea where I'm supposed to find 'reading'
If I do actually manage to figure that out, I then have to write these assignments. Made the mistake of watching few videos on academic writing & I now feel stupider then before!!!

Hope I can do this.

You were good enough to be accepted in the first place, so yes, you can.

It can all be daunting at first but it's all about time management TBH, don't stress it to much and take your time, I don't know how remote learning is working for third level these days but I'm sure there are supports there in place to help you, good luck!

IamMetaldave

Exactly what CoT said, time management. Also, just starting the paper(s) with thoughts and the basic ideas of what you want to say can take the edge of the starting part.. which is often the most daunting part. You'll nail it Bubblypop, don't worry

Princess Calla

IamMetaldave wrote: »

Haha! I have been taking pictures with my "proper" camera mostly... the pictures are hit or miss as I am still getting the hang of not having Apple doing all the work for me

That's a flare!

I was half expecting it to be Mars or venus, though with 2020 it could easily be a new sun

Princess Calla

bubblypop wrote: »

So, turns out that trying to do a college course is definitely harder than I thought!
I have 2 assignments, which seem to involve a lot of reading, reading what exactly I don't know, nor do I have any idea where I'm supposed to find 'reading'
If I do actually manage to figure that out, I then have to write these assignments. Made the mistake of watching few videos on academic writing & I now feel stupider then before!!!

Hope I can do this.

Getting started is the hardest part!

I do remember reading a thread on here maybe the teaching or third level forum. One poster gave absolutely excellent advice about how to tackle I think it was a thesis....I remember thinking "christ I wish someone gave me that approach " then shrugged and acknowledged I'd still leave it until the last minute in sheer panic and throw it together.

The advice was something like allocate a day to research your reading materials, then a couple of days to critically read said materials, then a day taking what's needed out of the material and filing them away. Then start your plan etc....I'll try and find it (though someone else with good search engine skills might beat me...that's a hint peeps ) .....one thing I will say , if you need a bibliography at the end , keep a word document open at the beginning and update it with each book/ journal you're reading as you go along, it will save you a world of pain in the end.

Good advice, thanks.
Probably getting off boards should be my first job!!!

Leg End Reject

Look up how to compile your citations and references in a Word doc, it does the hard work for you as long as it's comparable to the referencing system specified by the college.

I'm tableside, dossing.

IamMetaldave

Back deskside after lunch looking at firewall data. Facinating stuff :pac:

Sardonicat

bubblypop wrote: »

Good advice, thanks.
Probably getting off boards should be my first job!!!

Procrastination is an essential element in academic writing.

Leg End Reject

Aaaaaaaaand the glitch is back! :mad:

JupiterKid

Deskside in my home office busy working away. Was out for a short stroll in the park at lunchtime - very chilly out there!

Gremlinertia

Woke up at one to go to psychology appointment, two messages awaited asking me to work, replied politely i couldn't and received two phone calls where i didn't even get to say hello before i was bombarded with shift swap ideas etc. Sigh.. Anyway, back homeon the couch now. Eff them all!

Bubbly, you will be ok, contemplating the task is often the scariest part..

Gremlinertia

Oh and for those of you that can see the eggs in my sig, please give them a click, short shelf life on these ones

Sardonicat

Sardonicat wrote: »

Procrastination is an essential element in academic writing.

If anyone is in search of procrastination look no further I have it in abundance it will be written on my headstone, I'd love to be a go getter but everything is last minute in my world and it drives me demented.

Home and couchside before I make the dinner , week is moving along swiftly, work isn't too bad so far but I know I'm due a bad day so wish it would just come and get it over, I'm anxious now about not being stressed. I can't win lol.

Sardonicat

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If anyone is in search of procrastination look no further I have it in abundance it will be written on my headstone, I'd love to be a go getter but everything is last minute in my world and it drives me demented.

Home and couchside before I make the dinner , week is moving along swiftly, work isn't too bad so far but I know I'm due a bad day so wish it would just come and get it over, I'm anxious now about not being stressed. I can't win lol.

Meet your twin.

Leg End Reject

Sardonicat wrote: »

Meet your twin.

We're triplets. I procrastinate about procrastinating.

Gremlinertia

I'm more of a "paralysed by indecision" type

Sardonicat

Leg End Reject wrote: »

We're triplets. I procrastinate about procrastinating.

I procrastinate about the pre-procrastinate procrastinate. Joking aside, I believe it's an anxiety response and it can be a truly terrible thing. Almost nauseous with eorryaboutan intending deadline and still not starting the task and feeling almost 'switched off' fromthe sense of urgency I should be feeling. Then the wave of frantic energy whrn it does hit to get things completed on time followed by a brief catharsis before descending into the pits of shame for doing this to myself, yet again.

What happens me is I sit down all set to do my work but at some point, early on in my research, I'll get distracted by some little nugget of information and I'll end up going off on a complete tangent until I know absolutely everything about that entirely useless and completely irrelevant topic and oh look! now I've no time to actually do what I was supposed to do!

thomil

Deleted User wrote: »

If anyone is in search of procrastination look no further

I’ll have a look...



...later.

Any way, another purveyor of procrastination checking in here. For some reason, I’m just most productive in that last minute scramble. Don’t know why, maybe it’s because I’m just weird

SnowyMay

Princess Calla wrote: »

Getting started is the hardest part!

I do remember reading a thread on here maybe the teaching or third level forum. One poster gave absolutely excellent advice about how to tackle I think it was a thesis....I remember thinking "christ I wish someone gave me that approach " then shrugged and acknowledged I'd still leave it until the last minute in sheer panic and throw it together.

The advice was something like allocate a day to research your reading materials, then a couple of days to critically read said materials, then a day taking what's needed out of the material and filing them away. Then start your plan etc....I'll try and find it (though someone else with good search engine skills might beat me...that's a hint peeps ) .....one thing I will say , if you need a bibliography at the end , keep a word document open at the beginning and update it with each book/ journal you're reading as you go along, it will save you a world of pain in the end.

Yep, I was going to say the same about a bibliography. And, if you’re getting resources online, save them locally with the name you use in the bibliography. Simple and easy - but I didn’t cop that doing mine!!

I’ll never forget the panic when I realised that I couldn’t bang out the thesis in one night without sleep, which was pretty much my method for the (much shorter) papers before. In fairness, I had done a lot of bits and bobs and research and tappy tapping things into a document, but getting it into a cohesive paper? Naaaaah - leave it to the last minute. Had to defer submission by a week, pull a sickie from work, and lost points for the late submission.

Don’t do what Donnie Don’t Does.

In other news, homeside, and delighted with myself. That was a hella long day!!

Princess Calla

Sardonicat wrote: »

I procrastinate about the pre-procrastinate procrastinate. Joking aside, I believe it's an anxiety response and it can be a truly terrible thing. Almost nauseous with eorryaboutan intending deadline and still not starting the task and feeling almost 'switched off' fromthe sense of urgency I should be feeling. Then the wave of frantic energy whrn it does hit to get things completed on time followed by a brief catharsis before descending into the pits of shame for doing this to myself, yet again.

You have described me!

Also the annoyance once the task is finished that it could have been so much better if I had got my arse in gear and just got on with it.

I don't learn from it though. Next project exact same cycle.

Oh I had missed that post by Sardi but it's bang on! Definitely an anxiety response!

Sephiroth_dude

Deskside eating chocolate

Boom_Bap

Office side, not the office as in place of work, or toilet cubicle, but the office room in my mansion.
Back and showered after a 7km run through some mud for the craic.
Just waiting for the shout that the dinner is ready.

3d4life

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Deskside eating chocolate

Anyone else have a problem with doing this at 18:10Hrs ?

Pretty certain its some sort of prejudice I have ... it just seems wrong. earlier or later would be fine.

Not as bad as drinking in the morning tho' :eek:

Hope y'all are doing good,

about to go shop-side









( figured it out : Its all about (not) eating sweets before a meal )