Battle Kitten: Ascension

[fleaball]

4 minutes ago, Countess D'If said:

I am currently sitting on an air mattress in my old condo, watching documentaries on Netflix because I am so overwhelmed by the to do list. So it's not just you

Ha. Literally on my post-grocery run to do list was check in and see if you're alive because finals. <3 

[Countess D'If]

Yeah, I need to clean a fridge. My life is so excite

[fleaball]

Uggggggh I just spent $10 on an inhaler I don't need because shitty pharmacy is shitty. I'm so done with today and honestly I haven't even done anything. 

 

On top of that my professor just sent out another set of "questions to try to answer in your presentation" which, really? Two days before they're due and theoretically we all should have started if not finished before now anyway? 

[Dagger]

10 hours ago, fleaball said:

On top of that my professor just sent out another set of "questions to try to answer in your presentation" which, really? Two days before they're due and theoretically we all should have started if not finished before now anyway? 

This is why I am so glad to not learn stuff by being in school anymore.

 

And now that made me sad, since I was contemplating doing some online courses and slowly getting a bachelor's degree; I had forgotten all the admin bullshit...

[fleaball]

12:06pm on Sunday. Zero homework has been done. After grocery shopping yesterday I pretty much just shut down. This does not bode well.

[fleaball]

10 hours ago, Dagger said:

This is why I am so glad to not learn stuff by being in school anymore.

 

And now that made me sad, since I was contemplating doing some online courses and slowly getting a bachelor's degree; I had forgotten all the admin bullshit...

Honestly. If I can get someone to pay for it I'd love to get another Master's (she says, while struggling to finish the first one) but then I remember I'd have to deal with all of this again. :\

[fleaball]

Math is fucking weird. I need a 90 on my Thursday paper to get an A- but only a 68 to get a B- (which is all I need to pass). I'm pretty confident I can land somewhere in that spread if I ever start the damn paper. 

 

As far as the presentation for tomorrow, that + a paper = 20% of my grade in a class where I probably currently have an A already. Again, if I could just start it I'd be golden. >> (I have, in fact, written out an outline with the questions she wants answered and started setting up my PowerPoint. It's something.)

[fleaball]

So I've downloaded 29 articles for this presentation and have 25 other tabs open in Chrome. Now I need to put it into something coherent in the next 2-3 hours. Yay. I'll have about 2 hours tomorrow before class to work on it but that's pushing it, even by my standards. 

 

I have no idea when I'm going to work on the other paper. Fucking womp. 

 

On the bright side, I don't have to meet up with that other friend for dinner this week. 

[TheatreGal]

 

2 hours ago, fleaball said:

So I've downloaded 29 articles for this presentation and have 25 other tabs open in Chrome. Now I need to put it into something coherent in the next 2-3 hours. Yay. I'll have about 2 hours tomorrow before class to work on it but that's pushing it, even by my standards. 

 

I have no idea when I'm going to work on the other paper. Fucking womp. 

 

On the bright side, I don't have to meet up with that other friend for dinner this week. 

 

I do this all the time. Also, I've downloaded a bunch of articles I might read. But I haven't read any of them. The struggle is real. 

 

[fleaball]

4 minutes ago, TheatreGal said:

 

 

I do this all the time. Also, I've downloaded a bunch of articles I might read. But I haven't read any of them. The struggle is real. 

 

I wound up with something like 65 articles for a paper last semester and only used like 10. I told myself I'd read those and a bunch of others over the summer and read exactly zero. But I'm glad I'm not alone in this.

[fleaball]

41 articles, a dozen links bookmarked, and a half-assed idea of maybe why I can't actually find the information I'm looking for. (Most of the articles are things I saved because "it's not directly relevant but I might need it for bullshit.") It's 12:22, my alarm is set for 6 hours and 8 minutes from now. I have one slide done. Fuck Mondays. 

[fleaball]

I'm totally useless today. 5 hours of sleep.  (I've had a really hard time falling asleep lately. It feels like I just can't get comfortable but I think it's stress/anxiety because I've noticed when I just try breathing I finally fall off.) I'm leaving work in two hours and so far haven't done shit on either my presentation or the work I'm supposed to do here. I'll start doing something on the presentation and then get antsy because I should be doing other work, then I attempt real work and get antsy because presentation. I'm just going to be pulling this presentation out of my ass and spending the weekend attempting a decent paper. I'm just going to wind up deflecting questions and being like "well Turkey's kinda cracking down on academia right now so I can't find information, sorry!"

 

Bleh. I just want to sleep. On the bright side, I got myself an extra hour today because I'm not coming back to work after that event I have to go to, and two hours tomorrow by skipping that info session and leaving work early for it. I just don't care. And I'm crossing my fingers we get out of class early tonight. It's supposed to be 2.5 hours but there are only 6 of us with 10-15 minute presentations and judging by conversations last week I'm pretty sure we're all winging it so I can't imagine we'd have more than 2 hours' worth of stuff. Fml I just remembered I'm supposed to bring snacks to class this week. Blarrrrrrrrgh. 

 

(Insert Grumpy Cat here.)

[fleaball]

10-minute presentation due in an hour and a half. If I'm lucky I might have two minutes' worth of information at this point. Aww yeah. 

[TheatreGal]

Breathe. You are here. Your brain and your wits will save you if you breathe. In the grand scheme of your life this is just a moment. You're going to be ok. 

[fleaball]

4 hours ago, TheatreGal said:

 Breathe. You are here. Your brain and your wits will save you if you breathe. In the grand scheme of your life this is just a moment. You're going to be ok. 

Honestly most of the time when I freak out over schoolwork it's more frustration with myself over procrastinating than it is actual worry about the assignment. 

 

So idk if my presentation went well per se, but it went. I was working on it basically until the last minute and was nowhere near satisfied with it but oh hey I also hit ten minutes well before I had finished saying what I wanted to say? Whatever. It's done and now I'll just redeem myself with the paper over the weekend. 

 

Holy shit though y'all thank fuck for incognito mode. We use my computer for everything because literally no one else's will connect to the system in the classroom. And someone closed someone else's google PowerPoint thing by accident so they went back to the history to get it. I have chrome on my phone and my computer linked and there are def some NSFW incognito tabs open on my phone. (Not porn. But also not things my class needs to know about.) I almost died when it started showing my other open sessions on the project but they didn't pop up. That was so close to being awkward af. 

[Owlet]

haha oh gosh I'm getting nervous sweats just thinking about it! Glad to hear the presentation went ok and also you didn't have to die of embarrassment. I would miss your NF posts  

[fleaball]

4 minutes ago, Owlet said:

haha oh gosh I'm getting nervous sweats just thinking about it! Glad to hear the presentation went ok and also you didn't have to die of embarrassment. I would miss your NF posts  

I think if I haven't done anything to embarrass myself to the point of death by now I'm probably immune. Because I have done some embarrassing shit. Or decided in an anxious fit that the most innocuous thing was the most embarrassing ever. In reality I probably would have laughed it off if people saw the thing and idk how many people would know what it was just by the URL but I do think time stopped in that moment. 

 

Although honestly people are constantly pulling up YouTube videos and 99% of my recommended videos on the sidebar are fucking Supernatural convention panels so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  

[Sylvaa]

8 hours ago, fleaball said:

Holy shit though y'all thank fuck for incognito mode. We use my computer for everything because literally no one else's will connect to the system in the classroom. And someone closed someone else's google PowerPoint thing by accident so they went back to the history to get it. I have chrome on my phone and my computer linked and there are def some NSFW incognito tabs open on my phone. (Not porn. But also not things my class needs to know about.) I almost died when it started showing my other open sessions on the project but they didn't pop up. That was so close to being awkward af. 

 

<--- intrigued by what you have on your phone that is NSFW that is not porn. 

 

Also, you keep your incognito tabs open? Like to live dangerously, don't we?

[fleaball]

35 minutes ago, Sylvaa said:

 

<--- intrigued by what you have on your phone that is NSFW that is not porn. 

 

Also, you keep your incognito tabs open? Like to live dangerously, don't we?

Lmao it's more like I forgot to close them. Because otherwise that defeats the purpose of being incognito right? 

[Sylvaa]

Just now, fleaball said:

Lmao it's more like I forgot to close them. Because otherwise that defeats the purpose of being incognito right? 

 

Kind of my thinking. Then again, what do I know about incognito. 

[fleaball]

Okay. Somebody tell me why when my scale is in one part of my room or facing a certain direction, I get one result, and then if I move it I get a result with a 5-pound difference. The past two weeks it's said 226, and then when I scoot it elsewhere I get 221 ten seconds later. It just goes back and forth between those two numbers and it's driving me crazy. I'm not losing or gaining 5 pounds in the time it takes to walk two feet in my room. 

[Sylvaa]

1 minute ago, fleaball said:

Okay. Somebody tell me why when my scale is in one part of my room or facing a certain direction, I get one result, and then if I move it I get a result with a 5-pound difference. The past two weeks it's said 226, and then when I scoot it elsewhere I get 221 ten seconds later. It just goes back and forth between those two numbers and it's driving me crazy. I'm not losing or gaining 5 pounds in the time it takes to walk two feet in my room. 

 

My scale does this with my weight if I use my programmed setting (set to my age and height) vs. just getting on it. 

[fleaball]

13 minutes ago, Sylvaa said:

 

My scale does this with my weight if I use my programmed setting (set to my age and height) vs. just getting on it. 

I tried the programmed vs not and got the same results. It might just be possessed by a demon. 

[Jarric]

39 minutes ago, fleaball said:

Okay. Somebody tell me why when my scale is in one part of my room or facing a certain direction, I get one result, and then if I move it I get a result with a 5-pound difference. The past two weeks it's said 226, and then when I scoot it elsewhere I get 221 ten seconds later. It just goes back and forth between those two numbers and it's driving me crazy. I'm not losing or gaining 5 pounds in the time it takes to walk two feet in my room. 

 

Could be to do with how much give there is in the floor. Apparently it's best not to use scales on carpeted floors as this affects the result, so presumably a softer patch of floor would register a different weight.

 

Elevation is also a factor, but unless one side of your room is 100's of feet higher than the other that's probably not the issue!

[fleaball]

3 minutes ago, Jarric said:

 

Could be to do with how much give there is in the floor. Apparently it's best not to use scales on carpeted floors as this affects the result, so presumably a softer patch of floor would register a different weight.

 

Elevation is also a factor, but unless one side of your room is 100's of feet higher than the other that's probably not the issue!

It's hardwood floor, but old and shitty so maybe it's uneven. I hadn't thought of that. 10 points to whatever your house is.