Comments on: Wasted Days

By: relic

relic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now is always a good time for change, but then, there aren’t any other times available.

By: MaW

MaW — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very true. Now is all we have… kind of depressing, when you think about it like that.

By: clc

clc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can’t help you with most of it, but the solution to the checking-websites-repeatedly problem is here: http://www.syndirella.net/

Or your alternative RSS reader of choice…

It’ll change your life. Well, maybe just a tiny bit.

By: MaW

MaW — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks!

By: clc

clc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you find a site that doesn’t offer an RSS feed, the usual procedure is to threaten the webmaster with a pack of savage dogs.

By: MaW

MaW — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You know, I was just thinking that most of the sites I’m interested in don’t offer RSS feeds, so an RSS reader wouldn’t be much use.

By: Alex Mace

Alex Mace — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time” I don’t know who said it, but I read that once and I like it. I think the real problem is University life. It’s all too easy to get into a pattern during term time of lounging about, occasionally getting work done, leaving it too late, wishing you’d read more, revised more, done better (I know I wish I had. Damn 2:2, here I come (or rather I hope not (is this too many brackets? (Probably)))). Something I got from Bowling for Columbine was a good point about society – we’re trained to think that unless we meet some targets we’re going to die poor and lonely. Must work harder so I don’t die poor and lonely. I say sod that. If I do get a 2:2, then I have no one to blame but myself. Is it the end of the world? No. The key is to find the things that make you happy and waste your time doing them. It’s guilty pleasures that make life worth living. (Christ, I can’t write to save my life can I? I blame English teachers. One of mine fell down the stairs once and hit it head. That probably explains a lot.)

By: MaW

MaW — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The trouble is, that I wasn’t doing anything I actually want to do… just getting stuck in the rut of not really doing very much at all. And I like to get things done! I don’t care if other people think they’re achievements, I just want to do stuff and feel in myself like I’ve done something.

And yeah, too many brackets.

By: MaW

MaW — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Are you a closet lisp programmer?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Verily, no I am not a lisp programmer, closet or otherwise. Maybe the reason you’ve taken ages to do the PhD form is because you’re worried you’ll be in the same rut for another three years?