I have some energy today!

[sincere]

I've been using Habitica to keep track of the things I need to do and habits I want to learn, and so naturally I've decided to also use it to keep track of my academic needs!

My way of handling the workload is by assigning it to days of the week. On Sunday I'll do my reading for Eco. On Tuesday I'll do my classwork for Eco. On Wednesday I'll do my classwork for MBA 7200. On Friday I'll do research for my 7200 project... etc.

So I created a daily task for each class that recurs on the appropriate days. This way I'm dividing my attention into manageable bites.

When I have a big deadline coming up, like a project that's due, I'll also create a To-Do for that so I can officially check it off when it's finished, and if you need to study for a big exam, flash cards are the best way to do it -- so make a To-Do for "make flash cards" and then a habit for "reviewed a few flash cards" and squeeze it in in small bites whenever you can.

Ta-da! Those are my tips. Also, if you need medication to function like a human being, put a daily task for that too. It is really, genuinely difficult to do anything without medication, even something as seemingly fun and easy as play video games... on a completely hypothetical note, of course. /cough

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[tyger]

*prods it* Hmmmmm

Not the first one of these I've tried but well, I'm meaning to go back to uni next year, might be worth trying another one...

The daily per class thing does seem like a good idea, too! (And yeah uh trying to function without meds is um not so fun. I get withdrawal-dizzy in about eight hours! Yay! Not.)

[sincere]

Before the medicine-related fail I found it a very motivational tool, as someone who is motivated by gamified things. I want to collect all the pets and mounts!! And it was especially effective when I was utilizing the guilds, the tavern, the party chat, the group challenges, etc, so be sure to check those out. There are guilds for people like me who can barely function on a day to day basis, and for writers, and for readers, and for grad students, etc. It's always nice to be in a community of like-minded people.

I'm glad that I don't have it that bad!! Dizziness in 8 hours is prohibitive. Instead, I have no withdrawal symptoms at all. Which I know, because... I sort of accidentally ended up going cold turkey off my medication for over a week while I argued with my mail-order pharmacy that kept dicking me around. (My doctor was like, "You could have had a SEIZURE!!") So it's kind of a mixed blessing because it makes me not alarmed when I don't have pills, and then I make excellent decisions like "I'll just wait for them to get here."

I'm taking the meds again now, but they take time to build up to become effective, so... I'm currently at a low point where I find it difficult to focus on anything for very long and I am filled with ennui. Any task that requires more than 5 minutes of my time and brainpower feels impossible, including playing video games. It's super fun.

[tyger]

*nods* Yeah, I am hoping it will work for me because of that too. I'm in a better headspace for social stuff than I used to be, so~ *crosses fingers*

Yeaaaah, it's pretty shitty. It's one of the sorts that flushes out after 24 hours, so yeah. >__< Missing a dose is very not good. Great if I ever need to come off them, of course, but practically speaking not so much. I'm getting very good at dealing with being dizzy, though, so I guess that's something.

Oh geeze. Yeah, that sounds the funnest. :( :( :( :( :(