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bunn ([personal profile] bunn) wrote2011-10-21 02:44 am

Ill disciplined brain beaten into submission

I find that one effective method of forcing my brain to do the things I want it to do (ie, work), rather than the things it wants to do (ie write long confused posts about undocumented Cornish history, doublecheck exactly what the Ring of Barahir looked like, rashly offer to foster a coonhound, Hack All the Garden Things,  and write short stories including ravens)  is to tell the bloody thing that it will just have to stay up all night, and I *will not allow it to go to bed until it has done its homework*. 

Eventually the damn thing knuckles under.  This technique is not great for getting things done the next day, but at least I do actually get a really surprising amount of stuff *done*.  I do wish my brain would be more cooperative. Sometimes it seems like the thing belongs to someone else entirely. *kicks brain* 

So far I have resisted the temptation of fostering the coonhound.  He looks very cute in his photos, but I think my hounds are quite enjoying being a twosome for a bit.

[identity profile] ladyofastolat.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I definitely got distracted loads - I often used to pop into Blackwells en route for library and forget to emerge for a few hours - but I'm sure I'd have got distracted a LOT more had internet fandom and Wikipedia been waving alluringly at me.

The banquet happened two or even three weeks after Finals finished, and I don't remember too much banquet-related distraction happening while Finals were still happening - though during Finals, I did make a point of always stopping revision before 7.30 every night, and still going to all my societies. But it was a very long time ago, so, really, I have no idea. As well as an attention inch, I sometimes seem to have a memory millimetre. Pretty much all I clearly remember is the boar's head...
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[identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, same here... I have an overwhelming impression of doing a phenomenal number of things in a very short space of time. Many of them not degree-related - but all of them very much learning experiences!