1/100 days of productivity 🐣 9/25/23
hello! it has been a few days since i last updated. i was able to keep up the challenge for 2 weeks, but unfortunately, i hit a slump during the weekend.
i'm not sure if i worked myself into burning out or something, but at the start of the weekend, i was having trouble initiating my daily routine. i slept in, didn't commit to my tasks, and spent the days entertaining myself with distractions.
it only hit me that i hit that slump when i was rushing to turn in a quiz 20 minutes before midnight on sunday. i couldn't finish most of it on time, so i earned a really low score. this actually made me cry for a bit, but after that realization, i started reflecting on how i can get back on track.
which brings me to today. i spent most of the day at work and in class. i finished some past due assignments in between schedules so that i can catch up in class. then, when i got home, i tried my best to focus on the tasks that i missed out on during the weekend. i got plenty of chores done and continued with my evening routine per usual!
this is a longer post than my usual ones. i just want to share my reflections from this experience. this is not the first time i hit a slump after a streak of productivity, but i am proud of myself for quickly taking steps to get back on track. hopefully, i'll be back into my normal routines soon!
something that i try to remind myself often is that progress is not linear. i'll be taking this experience as a lesson for the future rather than resenting myself for a mistake. the most important things are acknowledging my mistakes and having the willpower to do better! i'll be restarting this challenge from the beginning, but i will not forget the progress that i've made so far.
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receiving ominous emails about uni tuition and loans and work study and opening the portal thingy and things making even less sense?? Not Ideal Besties
but,,,,also not midnight-on-phone-me’s problem,,,gonna have to be solution oriented laptop girlie Tomorrow ffs
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Well, holy carp, I have a funded work study student!
Very cool person. Very young but ferociously bright and with a thing for social justice, computing science and linguistics. And I get to teach this kid NVivo and let them loose on a qualitative analysis and timeline of anti-trans media stories in Canada and a few other countries. This is going to be fun.
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Save the Books!
I teach at a small university and this summer we will be merging with a few other small schools to become the Vermont State University. This was to be done to save money. Apparently, part of that plan includes getting rid of our circulation libraries. All of the book, journals, periodicals, audio books, picture books, collections, DVDs and CDs are going to go into the recycling bins on July 1, 2023. They say that they will disperse the contents to the community at large, but that does not include faculty or students and the local libraries are not in a position to take on my little school’s enormous academic research catalogue.
Do you think you could be a Sweetie and click the link below and tell the people in charge of this misguided delusion what bell-ends you think they are?
Or you could cite that only 10% of the students responded to the survey about this that they sent out. Because they sent it during finals. And that of that 10% (526 students), over 100 of them were not seeking degrees and had no reason to ever set foot on campus. Or that of the 50% who responded to what the library should do in the future was either Nothing, Expand resources and books, or Expand hours.
The link to have a say is right here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/we-3-our-state-college-libraries-and-athletics?source=direct_link&
A few pictures of what they want to get rid of:
The students bought it for the school. I wonder where it will go...
The entire collection of Life Magazines are going to wind up in the recycling bins.
There are two other banks of microfiche that are also going to get tossed. I wonder how much of them have been transferred to digital images...
No more free movie nights in the dorms.
The life-sized Human Anatomy book that has served so many nursing, physical training, and sports health students is going in the bin too.
Who needs free audio books? Can we say ADA violation? I knew we could!
Pretty sure this hasn’t been digitized.
And then there are the books you don’t want on your search history, but exist in the stacks. Or the ones you don’t know to look for until you walk past it.
I have more pictures, but they are too big. Like the ones of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Collection of children’s books that get used regularly by the education and literature departments.
My heart is breaking. Please help me and my students save their books.
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I helped LACC run an event, did my social media management job and it kicked butt. Gonna shift from being staff to being a student after next week! So excited for the new semester and to get back to studyblr content ✌️🫶📚
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I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)
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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become
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I heard something about “work study permits, terror attack and exchange students”.
The easiest way to get into a country is becoming an international student or through an exchange program.
And guess which countries do these “students” want to come to the most?
WESTERN COUNTRIES
Also, working for charities.
I’m not entirely sure why the LORD wants to me share this sensitive information other to bring awareness in light of what just went down in Russia, but for the past two weeks I have been getting some serious warnings with words such as “emergency”, “urgent” and “murder” being shown to me.
I hope this saves a life.
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On the flip side perhaps a work study program is needed to fill a labour shortage gap like construction 🦺 🏗️ 🚧
Please pray about this message.
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sanji-kun!!
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5/100 days of productivity 🐣 9/29/23
I PASSED THE KNOWLEDGE TEST!!! i have my learner's permit now! i was so nervous the entire day. i went to work and class and did some last-minute cramming. i was so sure that i was gonna fail, but i passed it!! i feel like a heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
next step is driving practice until I feel ready for the skills test
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older wolfstar mess
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i know it's been said many times before but i will never get over how jacob anderson, a british man with a british accent, not only nailed a louisiana creole accent but also developed a studiously (almost eerily) generic accent that louis uses in the present AND showed the first accent bleeding into the second accent at key moments as a way of aurally externalizing his character's inner journey. what did god put in this man when she created him.
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honestly the funniest part of tmagp 8 is the poor ta who had to grade that paper. "see me" is code for "i cannot say 'what the fuck' in the official gradebook"
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Kidnapped Persephone Style
Me: *tossing prompt idea up and down in the air before chucking it into the Void we call the internet*
Jason is dating Ghost Prince (not yet King) Danny and goes on a really awesome and romantic date on his day off. He forgot to tell the fam though. So when Red Robin comes to give Jason an update on some entil, he watches in muted horror as Jason is 'kidnapped' by a glowing entity in black armor and a nightmare looking horse (Danny is a bit busy doing paperwork, so he had his Fright Knight pick Jason up) off of a Gotham rooftop and into a green portal, while the knight had proclaimed Jason as their future Kings 'intended'..
No one on coms is ready for Tim to yell out
"I THINK JASON JUST GOT KIDNAPPED PERSEPHONE STYLE!!"
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astarion study 🩸
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