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I'm paralyzed by interest

FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
edited July 2009 in Social Entropy++
I just realized why I haven't accomplished anything the past two weeks

I am paralyzed by variegated interests

Trying to watch Battlestar Galactica, read three or four books, play three or four games, and get some stupid computer things working while simultaneously attempting to maintain some semblance of human interaction and not be a hermit is so hard

I feel like this probably happens to a lot of us

Realizing there is so much you feel like doing, you just shut down and do nothing

Your job is to tell me what to accomplish first

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Your job is to tell me what to accomplish first

    Curl up into a ball on your bed and think about your biggest regrets.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Your job is to tell me what to accomplish first

    Curl up into a ball on your bed and think about your biggest regrets.

    That's like the only thing I have actually done

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    i do this all the time

    i usually just end up blankly staring at the wall, filled with self-loathing

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    try meditation

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Well we need to know what games and books you're working on. Only then can we create a strict regiment of fun.

    And yeah, I have this problem too, but mostly I just end up doing whatever's the easiest and going from there.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Like right now I want to read ASOIAF again and I want to play Deus Ex and the whole Total War series and KOTOR and Morrowind and I also want to get a bag of weed and go outside and then I need to read the rest of Neuromancer and Zodiac and holy crap

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    start with deus ex
    then read a book
    then go get some pancakes and take a nap

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Just pick something and decide to be the best at it.

    I myself am the best at abandoning projects.

    At least I was.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I am trying to play

    E:TW
    M:TW
    Morrowind
    Deus Ex
    STALKER
    KOTOR
    and NWN2
    also FFXI but there's no time for that

    Trying to read
    Neuromancer
    Zodiac
    The Yiddish Secret Police or something like that
    ASOAIF again

    And I need to watch
    BSG
    Babylon 5
    A huge pile of movies

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    This has basically been me for the past six months!

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Finish the computer things first, then read the second book and play the third game. Once you are done with those read the third book and play the first game, leave the fourth game alone (it's crap) and return the first book to the library as you're never going to read it and give the fourth book back to the friend you borrowed it from and sell the second game because you need the money.

    Only have significant human interaction on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

    Monday is for Battlestar Galactica, you may watch up to two episodes at a time, I would suggest watching two-parters together but that's up to you.


    EDIT: Oh, now he posts lists.

    Well I'm not redoing anything, you're stuck with this.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Do some jumping jacks.

    Then, READ A BOOK READ A BOOK READ A MOTHERFUCKIN BOOK

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    get a second computer monitor

    you'll get twice as little done in more than half the time

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Neuromancer is a relatively light read, you should be able to knock that off in a few hours.

    ASOIAF I can't help you with, I read it once and that was sufficient.

    As for the games, whichever game you're the furthest into, finish. Then the next furthest. And so on and so forth.

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    heh, yeah

    I am watching through a couple of TV series, reading two books along with going through an audiobook, playing through like 4 games, and also other things

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I want to watch a movie but the people who won't enjoy it won't go to bed

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    I downloaded zbrush and am so giddy over how cool the program is

    but I dunno what to make in it

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    and then ill complain about having nothing to do

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    I downloaded zbrush and am so giddy over how cool the program is

    but I dunno what to make in it

    have you considered a boner?

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  • FabricateFabricate __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm trying to get a job, trying to figure out what I want to do with college, trying to write some music, trying to start a band, trying to finish reading a book, trying to hang out with friends, trying to make new friends, playing various tabletop games

    but all I end up doing is sitting on my computer and read the forums.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I am rewatching Supernatural. Dean is super hot.

    So, yeah.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I am rewatching Supernatural. Dean is super hot.

    So, yeah.

    He totally is. That bastard.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    there are too many opportunities throughout the day where someone may see me modelling a boner


    my god though, if I did chose to do a boner

    well you gotta try brush for yourself it would be a goddamned convincing boner

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Fabricate wrote: »
    but all I end up doing is sitting on my computer and read the forums.

    yep



    like the rats that push the meth lever until they starve to death

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm working (10-14 hours a day, depending), playing some EQ2, learning the guitar, reading several books (just started into Nightmares and Dreamscapes, then will move to Salem's Lot), writing a novel, writing a screenplay and maintaining my apartment.

    Fortunately I apparently don't need as much sleep as most people so there are generally enough hours in the day to get all of this done.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    also I am pretty much just plowing through the summer until my lease starts and I can move back down to SLO

    no job and no internship makes steve something something

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Moriveth wrote: »
    I am rewatching Supernatural. Dean is super hot.

    So, yeah.

    He totally is. That bastard.

    Right? I just watch the show and I love the guy to death, but in the back of my head I'm just thinking Fuck you buddy, you shouldn't get to be badass, attractive and have a cool voice.

    Vsove! How is Nightmares and Dreamscapes treating you? Also what other collections have you read?

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I am rewatching Supernatural. Dean is super hot.

    So, yeah.

    He is an incredibly handsome man.

    I'm actually holding off watching most of Season 3 until Season 4 comes out on DVD. Then I can just go through Season 4 and then start Season 5 when it's actually being televised.

    Slowly making my way through Season 1 again, in preparation for this.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm working my way through a couple TV series (Burn Notice and Breaking Bad) and reading a book or four. Free, The Man In The High Castle, The Lost City of Z, and Altered Carbon. All of those are on my iPhone via Kindle so I read bits of'em when I can. I've also just started a new fitness routine and I'm monitoring my diet way better than I used to. I also picked up a handful of games on Steam lately (Monkey Island, Bioshock, etc) and I'm working my way through those when I have the spare time.

    Lately a lot of my spare time has been spent at the girlfriend's parents house since apparently goddamn everyone in her family was born in July.

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    also I am pretty much just plowing through the summer until my lease starts and I can move back down to SLO

    no job and no internship makes steve something something

    I have an internship and I am plowing through it until I can get back to school too

    school is my vacation

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    yes, school should start because then i have something to do all day

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Also, make sure you watch only BSG or only B5 until you are done with one series, then go on to the other.

    Be sure to have a couple of weeks between the end of one and the start of another. It's one thing to say that both BSG and B5 are amazing shows, but it is quite another thing to actually go from watching Edward James Olmos to Bruce Boxleitner.

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  • FabricateFabricate __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    Projeck wrote: »
    yes, school should start because then i have something to do all day

    I wish I still had this kind of security

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Oh yeah, and I'm taking a couple classes in the evening. French II and uhhh, I'm not sure what else.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    Tossrock wrote: »
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    also I am pretty much just plowing through the summer until my lease starts and I can move back down to SLO

    no job and no internship makes steve something something

    I have an internship and I am plowing through it until I can get back to school too

    school is my vacation

    let's trade (assuming you're not interning under knob at the blackesmitthe or something)

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Oh yeah, and I'm learning Russian.

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    i have netflix to watch and wow and fallout 3 to play and infinite jest to read and this copy of mother jones and augh

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I just finished mass effect yesterday

    I have ghostbusters, red faction and resident evil 5 sitting on the shelf

    thinkin' about going with ghostbusters first

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm

    playing wow (really not helping my doing other things plan)
    reading a few books
    gymming it and try to understand it better
    still have to call to get my xbox fixed
    and most of all, work on my anxiety which i have been slothful in doing

    oh and i have to get through mad men before the new season comes out

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    make more threads instead

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