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Tom:
oh, ha ha ha wow am I in a shitty mood this morning

Gemmwah:
So because for the last couple of weeks I have been doing so much uni work that my head is about to fold in upon itself, so my girlfriend and I booked a holiday to Gran Canaria to stay in the Puerto Rico resort for 7 days after my exams are over to try and prevent implosion, but now my work is saying that I've left it too late to book holiday time for my exams and trip to Gran Canaria and at this point I hate my job so much that I am genuinely tempted to just stone cold quit.

Honestly, I've not had holiday that I've wanted to take since August last year, I took a few days in January to look after my Grandad while he had pneumonia but that was more of an emergency than a genuine holiday. My housemate (we work together) has been given 4 weeks off so she can fuck off to California, and one of my other colleagues was given a week off last minute so she could do her dissertation. So I feel like I'm being entirely shafted and I really want to punch my managers in the face.

McTaggart:
I just hobbled together enough of an assignment to not get an F-INC for a whole unit, though it's definitely going to get a fail grade. I'm feeling really disappointed in myself. I know the theory well, I understand exactly what I needed to do, I just didn't leave myself enough time to implement it all.

I've been shit at studying, I'm still unemployed, I haven't achieved half the shit I planned on and my discipline and willpower are at an all time low. There's all these deadlines and things I have to plan around which are getting in the way of me actually doing something about it. Incidentally, my parents are taking me on a trip to Turkey and giving me a bunch of spending money and I don't deserve none of it so I feel awful about the whole thing. I'm feeling really low but at least it's a whole different kind of low to what I'm used to so I guess that's better than it could be.

valley_parade:
I don't know if it's Jussi or just the video I saw of the Finnish hockey goalie falling off the plane and crashing face-first into the World Championship trophy, but I feel like I've created my own stereotype that all Finnish people are batshit crazy.

I don't want to seem prejudiced or anything. It's just that every time I hear mention of Finland, it's inevitably something insane.

Jimor:

--- Quote from: McTaggart on 15 May 2011, 15:08 ---I've been shit at studying, I'm still unemployed, I haven't achieved half the shit I planned on and my discipline and willpower are at an all time low. There's all these deadlines and things I have to plan around which are getting in the way of me actually doing something about it. Incidentally, my parents are taking me on a trip to Turkey and giving me a bunch of spending money and I don't deserve none of it so I feel awful about the whole thing. I'm feeling really low but at least it's a whole different kind of low to what I'm used to so I guess that's better than it could be.

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Kinda sounds like you're just out of gas. One way to think of the Turkey trip that minimizes the guilt is to use it to recharge your batteries and get away from everything else long enough to think things over and come back with fresh perspective and concrete achievable goals. I think we all reach some point in our lives when it feels like we're floundering, but it's very likely just a signal that your priorities are changing a bit and you just need to find new motivations to match.

Dear Blog Thread, somewhat related, I'm trying to get a handle on all the projects and goals I want to achieve, and it's quite daunting looking at all the things I want to do, realizing that I almost always kinda just let things slide outside my attention. I really need to start prioritizing and taking steps towards getting some of this stuff done. What's sad is that a lot of it is really cool, but once the bloom is off, I have a hard time getting motivated to continue and finish. It's like some long-term ADD I have. I can concentrate on a particular task for hours when I'm excited about it, but later I have a hard time even getting up the will to take a look at it again.

Fortunately, I have a fairly free summer to try to get my shit together, so I'm working on a plan that I'm hoping plays well with my strengths and weaknesses.

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