Nothing was bothering me until. I went through every photo on this thread and THERE IS NOT ONE CUTE PHOTO THINGY WITH A COOL CUTE SAYING ON IT WITH DASCHUNDS AKA WIENIE DOGS 8:::::[
hehehe great thread but seriously it bothers me
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I have no job and am apparently inept at getting one. I have no clear plans or future for education and, to be honest, have no choice because my parents have backed me into a corner, forcing me to choose something and go with it. That something being History.
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Well, I didn't know what I wanted to do until I fell into it either. And I totally love what I do.
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I kind of have to poop, but it's not quite there yet.. ya know?
So it will be an ordeal..
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Insect bites... really f'ing itchy insect bites. :c
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Just found out that Halo 5 doesn't have local multiplayer... After loading it up for the first time. After some quick research I've discovered that 343 has no intention of resolving this. A series that I've been with since day 1 shall now be put to rest for me. Couch play was what always brought me back.
15 Years later they've forgotten what was fun and have streamlined to the 60fps mindset.
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More importantly, Halo 5 doesn't have any dogs.
Time to give it a rest
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We have 7 cats.
2 for my wife, 4 for my mother-in-law and 1 for my brother-in-law.
Last night temps were about 4 degrees C and we heard a meowing.
Outside was a small ginger Tom. About 7 weeks old.
Apparently we now have 8 cats.
I only like 1 cat.
That's Space Cat.
And he's been ignoring me.
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I can understand your predicament
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Preparing to leave home for my summer research internship in the Rocky Mountains, and my family is in the process of preparing to move, so I don't know where home will be when my research concludes.
Ah well. The next grand adventure, I suppose.
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Home is wherever you lay your head. Don't look at it as losing your past, but as gaining a new experience. It's an adventure, enjoy it
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The Resident Evil 7 trailer. And the exam that I've tomorrow.
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Congrats, boy or girl?
Don't stress too much, you'll do fine :)
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the fact you're concerned about this means you're already on your way to being a good parent.
Just take it one day at a time
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1) you will make mistakes. It's ok. As long as you're there when you need to be there, you're already better than many
2) you will drop the baby. Any parent who says they never dropped their baby is lying
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It bothers me that I have 4,144 unread emails in my work inbox, and 696 unread emails in my private inbox. It's not a goal for me to ever reach Inbox Zero, but I know that many of these emails are important and should not be ignored. But with at least 3~4 hours of meetings every morning and with much of my time consumed with other work (and distractions such as this forum), it doesn't feel like I'm even going to be able to improve the state of my email. Still, I love my work, and all in all I'm content with my life, so can't complain too much.
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My situation is different now, but, I used to get 100-200 emails per day, all of which were organized and removed from my inbox before the day was out. It's a habit to get into to review them quickly and organize them efficiently.
You need to come in on the weekend and just start clearing out your backlog
Then, you need to change your work habit to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Basically, as soon as an email comes in (or, if you're doing something that cannot be disturbed, as soon as you can come up for air) you need to quickly scan through the email, and determine if it's (a) urgent, (b) something you need to deal with, or (c) something that you can ignore / doesn't require work.
If (a), deal with it right away
If (b), deal with it as soon as you have the time, but before your next break / the end of the day
If (c), file it away
For all emails, as soon as they've been dealt with, move them out of your inbox and into the appropriate folder*. You should also move any emails from your sent box to the appropriate folder. That way, if you ever need to look something up, you're not wading through a gazillion emails, you're going straight to the appropriate folder, finding the issue, and immediately next to it is the appropriate response.
you should probably take a few minutes to figure out a good folder structure
Just develop good habits, and keep at it. It'll help you a lot in the future.
As an example, I'd create folders based on lines of business, and within those folders I'd have separate folders for each case/transaction/deal. It was so organized that when I needed to look up what happened on a matter 7 years prior, I was able to find the relevant emails within a minute and was able to provide coherent information shortly after.
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Thank you for the detailed suggestions. You make some good points, but there are a few constraints and personal preferences which would make implementing a similar system more difficult in my case.
- I actually manage to keep my inbox from overflowing when I'm in the office, it's when I'm away/abroad that things become really messy. Since the beginning of this year I was abroad for extended periods, without much time (or willingness, in case of vacation) to manage my mailbox. When I come back to the office, things are looking bad, and it's very difficult to find sufficient time reduce the backlog significantly.
- Dealing with an email as soon as it comes is frequently impossible even during work hours, as I'm in meetings for several hours every day, away from my inbox. It does not fit my priorities. Email is important, but it's not the only thing I need to do, and frequently it's a distraction. There's a reason why many productivity books and articles recommend to only start answering emails after 11 AM, and not let the mailbox dictate one's daily agenda.
- I flat out don't believe in folders. And this applies to both email and the file system. I believe in searching - finding the right searching aids and learning to use all of their capabilities effectively, including the most arcane search operators. Debating with myself whether an email about A and B belongs in folder A or in folder B is just wasting time in a futile endeavor. I can see how this may work if your work is around case/transaction/deal, but that's does not apply to my work. So what I do is just file all my email to an Archive folder once I'm done with it. I then use advanced search to find the emails when I need them. Success rate is very high, even for emails from 10 or 15 years ago (luckily I only rarely need to go that way back). Folders may work for other people, but after using them for years and then moving to just searching I find I much prefer the latter. I practically always find what I need in reasonable time and with no frustration (except for the rare case when the search index is corrupt and needs to be rebuilt, but this doesn't even happen every a year).
If there is one takeaway from what you write which I may adopt, is allocating time for this on the weekend. Either this, or just file the whole thing once to get a clean slate and wait for people to shout if I missed some important email ;-)
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Sounds like you're mostly on top of things, so, um, just ignore everything I ever said
- Don't go away so often just kidding; but when you come back, you need to devote a block of time to taking care of it all
- Of course I didn't mean to imply that you need to answer emails while in a meeting. I just meant that they're dealt with in a timely fashion. Letting them stack up and not dealing with them is the problem, as long as you have a reasonable way of dealing with them every day is all that matters. As for productivity books, they tend to describe what worked for the author, and if you don't have your own systems, it's good to copy someone else's, but in the end, it's always better to develop your own system
- As long as you have a system that works for you, that's all that matters. What worked for me won't necessarily work for you, and vice versa. Just as long as you have something
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there have already been five giveaways made for Dishonored 2 and I find this knowledge painful
nobody is making eBay listings for hardware bundles containing the precise things I want, at a price I can afford
I updated Witcher 3 and now none of my save files are loading
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The character models for dogs in Dishonored are really ugly. No loss in not playing it. The Witcher, on the other hand, they got it right. Look on the bright side... now you have an excuse to play it all over again
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ALL DOGS ARE BEAUTIFUL ESPECIALLY DISHONORED 2 DOGS
I'd restart W3 but I just bought Hearts of Stone and wanted to be already levelled up and beautiful ;_; plus I don't actually think I have the mental strength to play through the entire game with 13fps again
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School mandated or court mandated?
If it's school, well, school sucks. Suck it up, buttercup.
If it's court mandated, well, it beats extra jail time
Now, start gardening
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I want to play FF XIV and do all my daily dungeons but I'm stuck on the job for at least 6 hours.
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The fact that you replied to everyone except to combatbeard and I don't know why.
But really it's that I still think about and love a person, who in my mind was the girl of my dreams, even though I haven't seen or spoken to her in years. And I know she doesn't care about me in the same way or probably doesn't even thinks about me at all anymore. Always missing people that I shouldn't be missing.
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I don't know how I missed combat beard, it was an honest mistake. I responded to him now. thanks for pointing it out.
That's the problem with dreams. They're not reality. I know it's hard, but, let your dreams be your dreams, and real life be real life. Time to find someone else. I know it sucks, and no amount of words can change that. the heart wants what it wants
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I responded to him now.
Order has been restored, the universe is at peace once more!
Yeah, I've moved on for the most part, I know I'll never be with her, but the heart is stupid at times. Perhaps when I meet someone else.
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I try to be a good person. I welcomed someone in my home to help her escape an abusive relationship with the understanding that she'd get a job and help pay for the rent.
Several months later, she's still looking fora job, is not keeping up with the house (if you're not working outside the home, work inside), surprised me by unloading a storage unit into my house as she can no longer pay, but still finds time to play board games over with friends every week.
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You're a good person. But it might be time to have a friendly chat.... that might not end up too friendly
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I hate myself and everything about me and every decision I've made. I graduated. I shouldn't have. I failed almost every elective I took and English twice. It should've been three times, but because of my special education plan they took off all the work I didn't do and passed me. They even gave me the advanced diploma by "catering my education towards me." I chose this over Mountainview and I regret it so much.
I'm worth nothing and can't do anything and know no one. I somehow have to live a good life society. I can't. I just want to die. I just want to be happy, but I'm to much of a pussy to kill myself. I just want it to stop.
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There there, buddy, I hear you!
And you will always be my second favourite tree! (Sorry, nothing beats the tea-tree)
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I barely graduated, failing more classes than I passed, and some of my passing grades were bare minimum. It's a miracle I wasn't a drop-out. Fastforward 3 years and I was the key employee at my company, literally responsible for billions of dollars. Fastforward a few more years and I now have 3 degrees and run my own company.
It's never too late to shine
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it's been a long time but nothing is bothering me today \o/
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Bad, I don't want to be in your shoes. I've been in a similar situation and it's a pain in the ass.
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Ouch. You're in a lose-lose situation. Can't say anything, can't do anything.
But, is there a chance you're wrong? Or is there a chance they might go on with each other?
I've been in a not dissimilar situation, where the girl living across the flat from us was banging just about everyone, despite having a boyfriend. NSFW story: one day she was giving my flatmate a blowjob. Being a bit of a dick, and having no good opinion of her, he came over her face, then wiped himself off on cheeks. She goes back to her own flat, and 2 seconds later her boyfriend arrives, knocking on her door. (I mean, he was coming up the stairs as she was darting across the hallway). She opens up, and he licks her cheek. note: none of the people I lived with at the time had any real morals; it was not a pleasant time
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yeah, it took a lot of effort for me to not throw up.
I mean, I'm just sitting there, and [mary](fake name, obviously) runs out the hall. [john](also fake name) comes strutting with a big grin, and tells one of the other roommates what he did, ew. I see [mary](still fake)'s boyfriend come up the stairs and knock on the door, and she opens it. I'm still in shock from the first bit, when I see the second bit.
Not as bad as when I found out that the other girl in our apartment would bring guys back two at a time.
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It's ok, we all sometimes just don't want the rest of the world to exist
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I did my drivers license and had a VERY big a**hole as tester at my 18th birthday. It ruined the whole morning. However, when my friends and family came, the day became better and better :) I hope this cheers you up and I hope you are having fun right now ("family coming over in 3 hours." - posted 3 hours ago.)
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I have to go up to people and tell them stuff.I can't do it. I have to give a list of really personal stuff to my psychologist. I don't think I can anymore. Then I have to make a call to see about a job, but I can't. I already had to do it like 5 fucking times and it's too much.
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yeah, sometimes you just don't want to exist.
Just take it one task at a time, one part at a time. break it into little pieces, and do one piece at a time. it'll be ok.
As for the psychologist part, a good one can make a world of difference. I know it's a lot of effort, but please, push yourself. Mental health is the hardest one to deal with, because the very issues that you need to deal with make you not want to deal with them. please, look after yourself
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I was trying to practise how to draw bodies but I failed so miserably I put myself in a bad mood :D
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Just somewhere to unload, maybe get some advice or a friendly chat. We're here to listen.
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