I finished my school for the quarter and find the Christmas update hit for Terraria. So naturally I HAD to play that some. It's time to break out my paladin hammer and smash my way to a possible nifty treasure. I needs me my Rudolph mount. I must know how that works. For SCIENCE!
Also I'm impatiently waiting for tAPI to release so I can start rebuilding and expanding a little mod and this is a nice time killer that'll keep me involved in the game a bit longer while I wait.
I got a reasonable amount of sleep in order to be well rested for my job. BUT GUESS WHO'S GOT 16 DAYS OF VACATION AFTER TODAY OH YEAH THATS RIGHT ITS THIS GUY. Finally time to see if I can still pull off 3AM nights for 5 days straight.
So I'm up late as usual, feeling like sitting around doing something entirely unproductive but for some reason I get errors all the time trying to play any youtube videos. Earlier I couldn't connect to Steam. Geeze, it's like they WANT me to just go to bed or something.
Some nights I wish I had more interesting things to ramble about. I suppose there's the twitch plays pokémon thing? Did anyone bring that up? Does everyone know that's a thing? It's kinda funny...
But regardless, I'm facing a nasty cold, I've been up doing horribly dull homework and I can't keep myself awake much longer.
I don't play pokémon, so there isn't any nostalgia there for me, but I do find it an interesting social experiment and an even more interesting bit of technical management trying to tune the machine in such a way as to allow the masses of input to actually make some progress.
It got me in the mood to play more Pokemon as well. Managed to kick Animal Crossing out of my 3DS, it's been in there mostly nonstop since the launch date last summer. Now I'm finally making decent progress through Pokemon X, and I've also revisited my save file on HeartGold for the regular DS. In that game, due to a lot of good fortune, I'm now at the Elite Four with a team of severely underleveled monsters.
Obviously your strategy is now "additional good fortune". Also Twitch Plays Crystal is a whole lot more nostalgic and entertaining for me than the previous game, as Crystal was the first Pokemon game I seriously played.
Death. Merriam-Webster defines death as "the end of life" and "the time when someone or something dies". Ethics. Merriam-Webster defines ethics as "an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior" and "a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong". And nowhere are these definitions more apparent -- beyond the dictionary -- then in the paper to follow.
Also, the dictionary, being a scholarly effort to define all commonly-used English words, totally counts as a scholarly source.
Heh. Yeah. I got the paper written in any case. Using school databases to try and find "scholarly sources" has often been a rage-inducing disaster for me. I had actually found a paper about an experiment at one point that could have been good but the conclusion was a very politely and neutrally phrased explanation about how the people who ran the experiment should have been involved in designing the experiment in the first place instead of leaving that to the government agency that funded them so they could have a proper control group and actually get results that meant something. After reading through a ton of bullshit "scholarly sources" I eventually ran a single google search and got far more meaningful information on the second result from a far better source.
Lesson learned: collegiate papers are stupid and "scholarly sources" are actually pretty terrible if you want meaningful information. Just ask Google. Google knows everything.
I wasn't aware they had that. Perhaps I'll use it on the next paper though! The results couldn't be any less helpful than the scholarly databases the schools got us hooked up with.
As a search engine it doesn't necessarily host any of the results, so, like, a lot of times it'll bring me to the IEEE site, which in turn tells me to sign up. Then I have to sign in through my school's library anyway. HOWEVER, it's what I use, and it gives relevant results.
I believe there's an art to research, and I also believe that nobody is taught it anymore. I certainly have no idea what I'm doing.
Not sure if I was born this way or I've just conditioned myself by always procrastinating school projects (probably a little bit of both), but I'm always most focused in the middle of the night and it has followed me into my career. I pull late nighters almost weekly at this point working on projects into the wee hours of the night... But I have the benefit of getting away with it since I'm allowed to come into work after 10. No problem! ((SO glad I don't have kids right now, I can imagine children interfering with this habit just a bit)). I remember a couple of you folks being quite the night owls yourselves... Has anyone else fallen into the habit of working late at night occasionally, or am I truly crazy for enjoying this life? Maybe as I get older Ill change my mind about this, but for now it still seems to be working!
Edit: looking through a couple previous pages in this thread, I suppose I've still made a lot if sleep progress since college. There's that at least!
As far as an actual job, no. I'm usually mentally clocked out the moment the day is done. For personal projects however, I'm a bit more motivated when working at night. Even on days off.
I habitually go to bed later than 2am every night. Well, morning I guess. Although I'm in job hunting mode at this point so that could change. Despite being awake that late I wouldn't say I'm more focused during that time so much as other people are in bed and therefore not bothering or distracting me.
If I didn't have cats that constantly demanded attention I would probably work from home more for that exact reason, but I've found that people are way less likely to lay on my keyboard at work than at home.
I always seem to become most motivated to work on my personal projects at the exact moment that I look at the time and think I should probably go to sleep or I'll feel terrible at work tomorrow.
Despite being awake that late I wouldn't say I'm more focused during that time so much as other people are in bed and therefore not bothering or distracting me.
That's a big part of it for me too. One of the unfortunate side effects of not having my own apartment anymore.
Nearing the end of my undergrad career here. I'm typically most motivated to do actual work early in the morning. In a perfect world I would wake up at 4 AM every day and work for a few hours with my morning coffee and the news. As it is right now its typically work until I'm burned out and then stay up until I'm relaxed, which means I'm normally actively going to sleep at around midnight.
My mother and my brother, on the other hand, will happily work for 14 hours with no restroom breaks and sleep for 4 hours a night. I don't know how they do it.
So I've been having trouble with sleeping the last few nights as a result of some bothersome pains in my back and side. Largely a muscle thing an a professional massage helped a lot, but it's still a problem. I think I'll trying seeing a chiropractor and then back to the masseuse.
On the other hand I've been trying to get a job and I think I might currently have two places trying to hire me. I guess that's good? I'm not sure how to handle this.
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I figure night wakings are healthy, and I just need to go to bed earlier.
Also I'm impatiently waiting for tAPI to release so I can start rebuilding and expanding a little mod and this is a nice time killer that'll keep me involved in the game a bit longer while I wait.
EDIT:
IS THIS WHAT GROWNUP FEELS LIKE
...I should go to sleep soon. I have to get up sorta early.
But regardless, I'm facing a nasty cold, I've been up doing horribly dull homework and I can't keep myself awake much longer.
*attempts to flip table*
...
*fails*
Somebody wanna write a short ethics paper about death? Make sure it's in exact precise APA format and include at least one scholarly source!
You're welcome.
Lesson learned: collegiate papers are stupid and "scholarly sources" are actually pretty terrible if you want meaningful information. Just ask Google. Google knows everything.
I believe there's an art to research, and I also believe that nobody is taught it anymore. I certainly have no idea what I'm doing.
Edit: looking through a couple previous pages in this thread, I suppose I've still made a lot if sleep progress since college. There's that at least!
That's a big part of it for me too. One of the unfortunate side effects of not having my own apartment anymore.
My mother and my brother, on the other hand, will happily work for 14 hours with no restroom breaks and sleep for 4 hours a night. I don't know how they do it.
On the other hand I've been trying to get a job and I think I might currently have two places trying to hire me. I guess that's good? I'm not sure how to handle this.