Yeah, I know Jan 31st ain't the right time for making New Year's Resolutions, but...

[anotherusedpage]

1) I will work at least five hours a day at least five days a week in the library . The library is open 24 hours a day so there is no excuse. It also doesn't have hotmail, livejournal or msn. Or candles. Or safetypins. Five hours a day is less than recomended, but more than what I'm doing regularly currently, so...

2) I will attempt to start by 10.30am. If I can't acheive this without intervention, I will consider setting a time by which I have to be in bed which is earlier than 3am.

4) I will eat fruit. Every day. Yes. And find some multivitamins with iron. And take them. Every day. Vitamins are not out to get me. I will learn this in time.

5) On opportunemoment's suggestion, if Arsenal lose the football tomorrow, who fancies a trip to Anne Summers at the weekend?

6) No, I think there were only four, really.

Comments

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

Five hours a day is less than recomended

Shit, really? Do lectures count in that?

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

What about thinking about working?

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, lectures count. Six hours a day, five or six hours a week, of which five hours a week ought to be lectures and two-four hours a week are tutes, is what's recomended for English. For maths I suspect lectures and tutes count for more.

[mousey13.livejournal.com]

and if i spend 8 hours working one day (on an essay for example) can i then take a day off?

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

How about you promise yourself the ann summers thing if you stick to the working for the rest of the week?

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

That's a good thought. I might say two weeks...

[herringprincess.livejournal.com]

1) Libraries are good. (What have you been doing with candles and safety pins???). Your target is eminently sensible. If you aim too big you'll just get depressed if you don't get there. I've now got a little bit of paper on which I do triumphant ticks for every hour i actually do! I'm finding it important to be nice to myself, and sympathetic. I don't want to do any work, so any that I do is an acheivement, not shame that I've not done more. I appreciate this is harder at Oxford where there are tutes and essays all over the place.I've also got big ticks on my calendar for remembering to take my pill and meditating, so I've got a nice line of ticks to make me feel proud that I'm not spending the whole day in foetus postion/jumping off bridges. The will triumphs.
2)Ah? Ah.
4?)Holland amd Barrett.Go. You. How about fruit juice? It's so much easier. (Also, if you like dried fruit, that's easy too).
5)Oh that sounds lovely if I were there. Me and Emily keep vaguely meaning to have an Ann Summers party.
*Lots of hugs*

[midnightmelody.livejournal.com]

What have you been doing with candles and safety pins???).

If you're really stuck for procrastination activities, ask herringprincess how to melt your bin . . .

[herringprincess.livejournal.com]

That wasn't procrastination! It was an attempt to motivate myself to work gone wrong (oh so wrong). It kept me awake at least, stopped me getting bored.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Dried fruit! I'm SUCH a ditz, that was a thing I worked out early in first year and then forgot again. It's great cos it kinda almost gets rid of chocolate cravings too. And yeah, fruit juice. Clever.

Also the Pill - this is another conversation that I ought to go have with my GP at some point. Part of what killed this term was I was on my period for 0th week, and then by the time I'd stopped feeling shitty from that, I had this stupid cold...

[herringprincess.livejournal.com]

"it kinda almost gets rid of chocolate cravings" - especially if you have chocolate covered raisins ;-)
I have so many boxes of sunmaid raisns strewn about the place it's untrue.

[mousey13.livejournal.com]

get the Pill - 8 day periods and putting-me-in-bed pains are reduced by at least half. and you get to skip a period when you can't be arsed to have one.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

You shine. You can do it! *cheers and throws confetti, or something* *considers following your example* *uh... needs more consideration*

Or candles. Or safetypins.
I didn't say it. You said it. Not me. See me not say it. See me not say it really loudly.

Ooh, I can come to Anne Summers too. If you do do it this weekend. And if they lose, which they probably won't. It would be fun, I would get to see you try on pretty red things. :)

[funnynamehere.livejournal.com]

We're not gonna fucking lose tomorrow. Because I'm spending the best part of a day going to That London instead of revising - I have an exam Wednesday - we better fucking win.

*frets*