Procrastinators Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from chronic procrastination.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
"I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness,
no matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.
Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again."
-- Paraphrasing a quote from the character "Yuki Sohma"
(the original wording was written by author Natsuki Takaya)
- "When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high, and don't be afraid of the dark.
- At the end of a storm, there's a golden sky, and the sweet silver song of a lark.
- Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain, though your dreams be tossed and blown.
- Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone."
-- Originally from the 1945 Broadway musical "Carousel", written by Rodgers and Hammerstein
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ms thursday
another slighly aimless day.
email bkatia today
NICE starter moving. I had a "dark" day yesterday.
School
261- HW #7 - MEGA IMPORTANT
262- print off notes, email prof, 1 candidate problem
MUR- listen to albums whilest working
287- look at hw, schedule working on it tomorrow
Phone
-Upload old phone's pictures to computer
-activate new phone
Organization
-Plan for the rest of the week
Self
-shower
-1 hr thing
-exercise? hrmm
marcelor checking in at 8.50
I have been having a hard time getting to the starting line lately. I want to believe that today can be different. I will stay away (abstain) from the things that I use for compulsive avoidance, namely IGC. I will take the time to plan the next action. I will try to observe myself when I feel like escaping the task at hand.
kromer 10:30 CI
I feel like I've been having trouble making progress. Today is mostly a computer/bioinformatics day, which will be fun work I hope:
*Go to church service*Mail taxes
*Go through Cell looking at section titles and supplementary info options, share with Mu (MIT)*Email Helen about UROP
*Email GBS (MIT)
*Come up with list of 30 biotechs
*Ask Mu for blocks
*Finish processing microarray data
*Reminder email about MU public safety
*Send out intro to 2 people
For CLIP data:
->Eliminate SNPs (MIT) (actually, I talked to some people and they agree that this step is unnecessary)
->Graph mutations by position (made really good progress on this)
->Count mutation pileups in each position (have started this)
->Make permutation files (have started this)
hazyjane ci wed
Thanks movinagalong for the starter, I have to say starters are getting to be a real creative/expressive opportunity here and I appreciate the effort people like you are making!!!
Once more, have an assignment to get done, it's already nearly 2pm and I've only got as far as opening a document... And this is when I already KNOW that my time is limited by a commitment I have this evening, which is going to swallow everything up between 4pm and 8pm. What's wrong with me??!!???!!!??!!
one: assignment, get something written, and fast!!!
two: walk dogs, again...
three: get to my job on time
four: get back to work on my assignment, but I can predict that I'll be tired and grumpy and 'won't feel like doing it'. I also know that the fact that the deadline is tomorrow won't really have much effect on me, because I know I'm generally well-thought of (lucky me!) and they'll cut me some slack...
five: decide what I'm doing this weekend!!!! The weather here in the UK is really wintry still, and much as I'd like to get out of London I do still need to make sure where I'm going to (planning to go to) is accessible to a 3 ton van...
and this long check-in is yet more procrastinating..
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It's an inside job...
clement ci - day 137 attempting abstinence, 57 from self
Abstinence from unplanned time.
Abstinence from relying on self.
Perhaps there is a better way - we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.
We never apologize to anyone for depending upon our Creator. We can laugh at those who think spirituality the way of weakness. Paradoxically, it is the way of strength. The verdict of the ages is that faith means courage. All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do. We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear. p68 AA Big Book.
9:54am : that's too big to post every day. I'll put it somewhere else and post a link to it--on a designated break today.
It's been 9hrs 24min since i last got distracted.
It's been 9hrs 24min since i last went on an off-plan bender >15min
It's been 1day 8hrs 24min since i last went on an off-plan bender >2hrs (6hrs).
It's been 137 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >1day
It's been ~181 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >1week
It's been 1day 8hrs 24min since i last relied on self.
These may not be the right durations. i'll think about them again on a designated break.
:) ci
:) start Instant Boss
:) v task
:) sched
:) quiet time
:) r task
:) s task
:) t task
:) 11am pa phone mtg
:) sort tasks
prj task
:) j task
:) :) client gi - noon
:) :) :) client pu - 3pm
bill pud
p wrk
kuf wrk
ka wrk (trk: wed eod) - thu? fri?
pud wrk - power supplies (trk: wed eod) - thu? fri? sat?
client ku sat?
later: g wrk
later: ht task
put away clothes
:) reflection
:) pre-plan tmwr
THINGS I DID WELL TODAY
efficient morning. Trusted God and attended 11am pa phone mtg, even tho i had a client appt 1hr later. God came thru--i was on time. Worked hard at both clients'
THINGS I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER
Found a better way to recharge then going off plan this night.
THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR
The chance to work. I got an interview for a job i think i would really like and be rewarding. Doesnt pay much, but that's ok.
fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb
show up (done),
show up (done), exer,plan
Thanks for starter moving,Reminds me of Progress not perfection
I still have bad days. But that's okay. I used to have bad years.
—Anonymous
My Day Today
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.
I want to thank movingalong for starting this trend.
Things I will do today
1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting
2. Go to the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting
3. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting
4. Cook and eat breakfast
5. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone PA meeting
6. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone ACA meeting7. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA activity line
8. Take shower
9. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting
10. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone OA meeting
11. Warm up and eat dinner
12. Go to the 3 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
13. Get dressed
14. Go to work at 5:30 p.m.
15. Go to the 9:30 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
Thanks for letting me share
Wednesday
readingsHIOtidyphotocopy UDT & B file for hospitalmake to do list for hospitalcancel meeting lwrite in journalcall d and d and k and nPRINTERS 3 M FILES PRINT AND BINDstationary shoppick up registed post packaccounts and filesort out stuff to photocopy cb ta receiptst timetableprint h booking formbook dl hotel m and eemail f re m rring about missing dl ticketspack hospital bagdo hospital to do listbed earlyHIOput hospital bags outm files packms wednesday
thank you movingalong, sun for all.
take to charity shopreply email womanolmike x2meet ego to t at 5p
Mole's check-in
Thank you movingalong, I hope you can see some silver linings ahead.
7.30 cafe with notebook
9-12.30 write with focus on stakes
lunch
1.30 -3 to prov with mem or ill for A
lum and pbm
Report for C
5.30-7 walk with C
pick up parcels
post pathology
pay JM
organise birthday list
meal
eggs for tomorrow
relax
check in
bed by 11
WHAT I DID WELL TODAY
A good day today, felt alert. Fog beginning to clear, feeling calm
cleared up after myself
volunteered to moderate
WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER
integrate garden things into my pom breaks
WHAT I AM GRATEFUL FOR
feeling well in spite of heat, walking with C, chatting with landscape woman while getting nice waterspray, seeing R and hearing about G, perfect coffee at P.