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.

Friday 25 April 2008

Recycler CI 5:55pm EST

Hi Froggie & Friends :)

Yay, it's Friday! :) Yesterday for me wasn't so good, so I'm very glad it's the weekend now! :)

Today: late to gym so just showered & dressed, work, got MIT work projects done, paid rent, paid 1 utility, brought spending chart up to date, brought home boxes that I had been procrastinating about bringing home for 1-2 weeks (lol), ate dinner.

This evening. The entire weekend is better for me when I stay home on Friday nights and putter with light projects. However, yesterday was tough and I *could* go to a support group tonight and be with people that like me. Hmmmm, what to do, what to do ... I have 1 hour to decide, so I guess I will putter first and see how far I get ... ;)

Maybe I will check in later. Otherwise, have a great night, everyone! :)

Recycler

Thank you, gals & guys, for being here! :)

Recycler CI 8:35pm EST

Hi!

For a more peaceful evening, I stayed home. I washed, dried & put away a load of clothes. I put away dishes from the dishwasher. I packed my work clothes for next week at the gym (5 days). I read a little recovery literature. I cleaned off the bed, chair, & ottoman, and a little of the sofa ;) That's more than I would have gotten done, otherwise! ;)

Have a good night, everyone! :)

Recycler

Thank you, gals & guys, for being here! :)

e mid vacation checkin

hello all! Long time no see!

I have missed all of you, but it appears (without looking through the past week's posts) that you have been busy: the site has had a makeover (thank you, Pro) and all is busy.

I will be gone again for a time, but have found my anxiety is still in my way of getting things done that are supposed to have been done quite some time ago. However, some good things have happened: my sister had her 2 week's overdue baby (clearly the baby is one of us) and my son has entered the world of supposed manhood, and it appears that there are options for college's as well.

I have some things that I am going to post here so I can get them out from the hidden shadows where they fester: I am afraid of moving forward on some things a higher up asked for. I am seeing how very demand resistant I am and how much I get in my own way when something is asked of me. For my own good I need to go on, so I am going to turn it over to my Higher Power so s/he can take care of it. I am also still procrastinating on my studies, have not sent in some paperwork for my license that I have had ready to mail for 6 months, need to pay bills, find a check book, and a plethora of other things which are very silly to be putting off. my room is a mess, and my desk is covered with papers. There is no good excuse so I will not try to justify one to myself.

So... I am 'e' and I am a chronic procrastinator. Still. One day, one task at a time, I can find recovery.

hugs to everyone, bbs.

thanks everyone!

The new neice is doing well, and my mom is in alt because she finally has a grandchild who looks like her daugbters. The tasks... well, one day at a time. But things continue to progresswhen I work the program. bbl!

hi e!!

Best of luck with your tasks, and congrats on your new niece and your son's college options!!

Congratulations Auntie E!

We miss you! Take care.

Jo

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

Hi e!!!!!!

I've missed you! Hope to see you on the site again soon.

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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

M 11:50 am CI

- autocomplete issue
- q - suggestions from meeting
- q - new q movement bug
- q - save edits
- clean office
- haircut
- read 50 pp.
- stretch/exercise
- burn CDs

welcome back

welcome back. Here's cheering you on for your tasks today!

thx. Haven't been

thx. Haven't been altogether productive the past few days, but ideally I'll get more than half of the following taken care of, including the first 4 (which are high priority).

- emergency bugfix
- autocomplete issue
- q - suggestions from meeting
- q - new q movement bug
- q - save edits
- clean office
DONE haircut
- read 50 pp.
- stretch/exercise
- burn CDs

Journey 9 am

Happy Friday and hope everyone is looking forward to a nice weekend. I was early to work again today. Not sure what is going on with traffic in this city, but it's been really great the past few days. Maybe one of the colleges is on spring break or something.

Anyway, so far today, I have
- been to the gym
- read email
- started on my daily planning

I have one useless waste of time meeting at 9:30, then I'm hoping to hide in my office the rest of the day. I'm going to send out the monthly status report for updating, prepare for my progress report meeting with the boss, and work on my OPM project.

First thing, I will straighten my desk and complete my daily planning.

Check back at 10:30, after the meeting. I can at least enjoy drinking coffee and socializing in the meeting, even if it's a waste of time productivity-wise. Team-building is important too. I'm a real introvert and I'd rather stay in my office all day and communicate by email, but I know I need to mingle.

Later

Journey

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

Journey noon

useless meeting wasn't totally useless after all, and the social part was quite enjoyable.

I'm having trouble getting back into the project I was working on yesterday. Setting my timer for 30 min of focused work then lunch break.

Jo

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

journey 1 pm

Well it took me an hour to do 30 minutes worth of work lol, but I am making progress now. Lunch break!

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

journey 2 pm

break over. back to work!

check back at 3

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

Journey 4 pm

something came up, worked on that issue for the last hour. Pissed me off, too. Somebody trying to sabotage the progress we've made on the SM thing. Now I'm going to work on the OPM stuff.

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

journey 6 pm

Didn't get much done this afternoon on my OPM project, although I did work on it some. I've been stewing over the disruption to the other project. I'm really annoyed with this person, who I think is just trying to pull some political bullshit to further her personal career at the expense of our project. Couldn't stay focused on what I need to do.

I don't normally let something like this upset me. It's been a long week. I'm going home.

No chores tonight, it's Friday!!

See you guys tomorrow.

Journey

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

Lark, 8:29am(and 5:50pm)

Hi everyone. Things are starting to get messy around here, so that tide needs to turn a little today. Also,I have to attend a client's funeral later this morning. I'm going to paint the edge of my door now, so it can dry while I'm gone. Will check in better later. Thanks.

Big day, and I've not accomplished alot with work or home. I'm going to a Meeting shortly and will check in later, and maybe make plans for tomorrow.    

kromer 7:50 CI

I've got three more weeks of classes left, need to keep going!

Things I need to get done today:


*Go to biochem section + lecture, econ section
*Read biochem paper

*Review cholesterol synthesis
*Write section on expression filtering for senior thesis
*Try a bunch of different calculations for senior thesis
*Go to youth group
*Post graphs from expt. (w/error bars)
*Clean 100 messages out of my inbox

*Plan out what I need to get done in the next week

I'm going to start by reading the biochem paper, then leave for biochem section at 9.

kromer 12:20 CI

I'm going to take 15 minutes to finish planning out what I need to get done in the next week, then go to lab and do calcs for senior thesis, then go to econ section at 2pm, then go back to lab at 3 and check in again.

Back in a bit with more detailed plans for what I'll do in lab. 

kromer 1:05 CI

OK, dawdling horribly (that's what nice weather will do to me), but I'm in lab now.

Unfortunately to computer I need to do my calcs is down for the moment, but I can at least set them up.

Here's the ridiculously specific list of what calcs I want to do today.

*4 calcs w/ expr filtering+visualize results
*4 calcs w/out expr filtering + visualize results
*Extract data with smaller fold change
*Try MD on various timepoints/thresholds
*Look at weights on connections to coregulators.

What I'm going to do right now is:

* See how far along I am on 1st 8 calculations, try to figure out any bugs
*Set up for any undone calculations
*If time, look at weights on connections to coregulators
*Return lib books on my way to class at 2

 

kromer 3:35

Not doing too great :(

Checked how far along I was, set up 1 more calc (but 4 of the calcs seem to have bugs, which I can't figure out while the computer is down), forgot to return my library books, went to class, then goofed off from half an hour.

Now I'm back and trying again.

I will:
Visualize results from the calcs that are finished, look at weights, talk to KM about why computer might be down, email about computer, extract data with smaller fold change, leave for youth group at 4:45.

Update: Visualize results, talked/emailed about down computer. Next up: look at weights manually and then update here again.

Update: Looked at weights, now time to leave, check in around 8:30ish (after youth group)

kromer 9:40 CI

Back from youth group a bit before 9, then messed around for a bit, would like to get some more work done before bed so I can relax a bit tomorrow.

Don't think I'll be able to get done everything I planned, but I'd like to

*Extract data with smaller fold change
*Start running MD on one data set

*Spend 10 min working on expression weighting section (I'm too fried to face doing more, but every little bit helps right?)
*Go over 1 lecture on cholesterol biosynthesis
*Make error bars
*Start laundry
*Bed!

pro's CI - 7:45am

I have today off from work. Most of what I have to do is in the next hour - get ready for the plumber, who is going to replace my bathroom sink.

Gotta get dressed...

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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.