On Studying and Unfucking

Unfuck Your Habitat has this concept of 20/10s, where you clean for 20 minutes (set a timer!) and chill for 10 (again, on a timer). The mind behind UFYH also has a suggestion for studying, which is sessions of 45/15s. I don't know about everyone else, but 45 minutes is not long enough of a study session for me to actually accomplish anything. So today, I changed it up. (If you love Community, feel free to imagine that as "Chang-ed it up"). I did 60/15s all day, and actually got a shit ton of work done. Setting a timer really did help. At the beginning of the day I was a bit daunted by how much work I *had* to get done by tonight, because it was a lot. But after two 60/15s, I was feeling a lot better. I ended up doing about 6 hours of studying, broken up by dishes, laundry, and lunch, and got everything done that had to be done by tonight, and a few other things as well. So. Go me!

So as to avoid breaking up work with an unnecessarily long trip to Bethesda, I did my workout (and car-getting mission) first thing this morning. Got to Bethesda around 10, had breakfast and coffee at my job, got the car, and was back to Silver Spring and to work by 11. I am also rather unshowered, because where the hell else was I going? So... yeah, a bit sweaty and gross and all day, but whatever, I got shit done!

One thing that I'm happy about is that I avoided the internet all day. I mean, I checked my email occasionally, and I glanced at Facebook while waiting for my school's website to load, but no Cracked, no LJ, no Tumblr, no nothing. Which means that now I have an overabundance of content to look at! I'm acting a little bit like a chicken with my head cut off, I'm just jumping around from tab to tab, but seriously- CONTENT!

Ok, off to frolic in the internet for another hour, and then bed!