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DrainKikoLake

@ DrainKikoLake @lemmy.ca

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  • When do you finally calm down after buying a house?

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  • Also because it's nice to live somewhere clean and tidy?

  • How do you study?

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  • Eight classes a semester! Our universities must run on a very different model. For me (humanities degree), a full course load was five courses at once, each of which had three instructional hours per week. So I was normally in class for 15 hours a week, and probably spent about the same amount of time studying/reading. Going from five classes to four effectively meant going from 30 hours a week spent on school stuff to 24. It was much easier (especially since I was also working p/t).

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    What are kids playing today? What came after Minecraft/Roblox?

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  • It's still Minecraft and Terraria.

  • How do you study?

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  • Oh, also! I don't know if you live on campus or if you're a commuter, but if the latter: stay on campus during the day! Sometimes I had big enough schedule gaps that I could have gone home in between classes, but staying on campus instead made it a lot easier to just go to the library or whatever.

  • How do you study?

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  • Pomodoro timers, as someone else mentioned, are great. It was a lot easier to start when I could tell myself "ok, I only have to do this for fifteen minutes" -- and most of the time when that first timer went off I'd gotten into a groove and kept going anyway.

    For writing assignments, I found starting with a blank page really difficult, so I'd paste in a paragraph or two of lorem ipsum or some other nonsense text and go from there. Having words on the page, even though they were irrelevant and I knew I'd have to delete them later, tricked my brain into thinking "oh, I've already started this; carry on, then!"

    The habit of doing even just a little bit every day was more sustainable and more effective for me than infrequent big cram/study/writing sessions.

    I had probably the most success with using musical cueing. Whenever I sat down to write or study, I listened to one of the same two albums on repeat. (I like classical; one was Handel's Messiah and the other was a two-disc set of Thomas Tallis choral works.) Even now, almost a decade later, when I put either of those on it instantly snaps me into work mode. Creating that kind of association is really helpful! And having only one or two choices also meant I couldn't distract myself by trying to figure out what to listen to: it was A or B, end of.

    You might also consider how/whether you could spread out your course load. Most years in undergrad I did five classes a semester, but one or twice I did four only (plus a summer class to stay on track) and being at only 80% of a full load made a huge difference.

    Good luck!

  • James Tate, "How The Pope Is Chosen".

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  • Whoops, there's still a stray "poodle" in L17.

  • American motorist guilty of running down woman in downtown Windsor | windsorstar.com

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  • I'm sure his victim wants to move on with her life as well, but the impact on her sure isn't "very brief" or "momentary."

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    In less than 2 weeks I will be a multimillionaire AMA

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  • What's your favourite dinosaur?

  • What's your favourite star trek series and why? eg DS9 TNG etc

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  • DS9 for sure. I like the darker feel a lot, but what really makes it stand out for me are the story arcs.

    With TNG, especially in later seasons, it really started feeling like nothing had consequences beyond its own episode -- even the events of "The Inner Light" are barely alluded to afterwards, which is crazy if you think about it. DS9 gives us plots and stories that stretch across multiple episodes and even multiple seasons, and it has so much more of a sense that the whole thing is going somewhere. This also allows for an incredible amount of character development over the course of the series.

    Plus, Gul Dukat is easily one of the best TV villains of all time.

    ...I didn't care for Vince Fontaine though.

  • [OC] Under the stars

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  • Lovely!

  • What's your phone lock screen?

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  • Strawberry dress

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  • Adorable! That looks like it will be perfect for springtime :)

  • Be Famous | Poorly Drawn Lines

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  • I am back.

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  • Please post a picture of your chin so that we may judge this matter.

  • We Have Won the Lemmy.World LemmySilver Event!

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  • I have no idea what the lemmy.world lemmy silver event is/was, but I love seeing all the owls in my feed... so congrats & keep it up!

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  • Late 30s here, I would descibe how I feel as "settled". I feel steady in who I am and what I do; my youngest child is five and so I'm out of the most intense hands-on parenting years. Looking forward to my forties!

  • What's a weird compliment you got?

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  • An ultrasound tech once told me that I have a cute spleen.

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  • So... the dishes were important enough for your partner to berate you about them multiple times, but not important enough for them to do the washing-up while you were out? Are they always your responsibility? Did you have a mutual conversation and understanding about chore division, or has your partner implicitly or explicitly assigned certain chores to you?

    What measures of responsibility does your partner take for their own sleep? Sleep mask? Ear plugs? White noise? Weighted blanket? Other measures? Or is it all on you to accommodate them?

    Would offering to sleep on the couch if you come home after they're asleep feel like a reasonable compromise for you?

    Does having a curfew set for you by your partner seem like a normal thing to you? Are you surprised that people here think it's not normal?

    Does your partner regularly use belittling or derogatory language towards you as you've detailed here? Does it feel to you that using such language is justified by your ADHD?

    Does this situation seem like a one-off thing, or is it often a problem that you have not read your partner's mind?

    I think you've got some important questions to ask yourself here.

  • The master of disguise

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  • Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee
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    Backyard foraging: Dandelion flowers for tea

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Bullshit Bulletin, Week 2: Liberals proudly axe some unknown idiot's dumb tax

    www.readtheline.ca /p/bullshit-bulletin-week-2-liberals
  • Poetry @lemmy.world
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    It's almost National/Global Poetry Writing Month!

  • neopets @lemm.ee
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    Some birds sing; some birds play cello

  • neopets @lemm.ee
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    Lupes aren't afraid of a little rain!

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    Eyries have always seemed like complete badasses to me

  • neopets @lemm.ee
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    A sweet little pound rescue takes to the skies

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    You know he just plays Minecraft all day

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    She used to be a green yurble but I saved her from that fate

  • neopets @lemm.ee
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    Another child-led custom here

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    Nobody's more set for adventure than this guy!

  • neopets @lemm.ee
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    In my mind he's a foster dad and tells the best bedtime stories

  • neopets @lemm.ee
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    This maximalist customization brought to you by my five-year-old

  • neopets @lemm.ee
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    First post, I guess! Here's my mighty BD pet :)

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    My favorite jokes

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    bare trees & a beautiful sunset a few months back

  • Buy Canadian @lemmy.ca
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    US Road Trip Destinations Seeing Signs of Canadians Staying Away

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/ottawa/u-s-road-trip-destinations-seeing-signs-of-canadians-staying-away-1.7490169
  • Buy Canadian @lemmy.ca
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    Parliamentary petition to create/regulate standardized visual branding for "Made in Canada" and "Product of Canada" goods

    www.ourcommons.ca /petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-6453
  • Buy Canadian @lemmy.ca
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    Has anyone tried a "buy Canadian" app?

  • Buy Canadian @lemmy.ca
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    'Buy Canadian' Reddit post becomes secret ingredient to help save Ontario condiment business

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/sauce-buy-canadian-sales-boost-1.7487474