Is it just me?

[blamebrampton]

At work, I am a one-woman accomplishment machine, who can build a story in a few hours, creates systems out of thin air and makes things work.[Poll #1669623]

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[ant-queen.livejournal.com]

I selected 3 :P I will generally start somewhere for bit, then something will prompt me on other project, so I'll hop over to that for a while. And when I get stuck I resort to cleaning the house (or laundry, my perennial favourite thing to do when I can't think of anything else, there is always a load of washing that needs doing) or reworking the filing/referencing system.

And sometimes I'll be working on lots of things at once, then see they are all part of some master plan and pull them all in together in the hope of creating a theory of everything (or policy of everything, which is more my thing). And then when it isn't 3am and I'm less high on caffeine I realise that it doesn't really work and I should revert things back to their original component parts. But progress is still generally made in a roundabout way.

[vertelemming.livejournal.com]

You forgot the most important option: Spend six hours organising your todo list, start on the top item with gusto and energy, get distracted five minutes in and forget about it for six months.

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

My brain is as scattered as my poll selections, and about as useful. For instance, it has decided today that, in order to write the fic about the chefs and the smallholding and the London restaurant, replete as the subplots are with gossip columnists, Weasleys, and porcine hijinks, what we really need to learn about is...cricket.

*glares at Noe, Femme, and Wemyss*

[quatrefoil.livejournal.com]

In my defence I should like to point out that I have some legitimate research that I need to do in Alsace, though not for my current project. OTOH, my current project is a distraction from another project which was a distraction from another project etc., and ultimately from the project including the Alsatian research, on which I gave a paper in 2005. Eventually my procrastination leads me back to where I started.

[azurelunatic]

Yes.

But on the plus side, I am a walking advertisement for Hiveminder.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Also investigate all sorts of things to do on vacations (across Canada, Britain) though not Alsace. ;D

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

Start somewhere, work a bit there, a bit somewhere else, a bit all over the place, finish eventually.

And in between that add "surf web", "make cookies", "wander around the house", "make jewellery", "do random tasks".

It's surprising anything gets done, actually. *sigh*

Note to self: Stop trying to write at 4am.

[vaginal-parfait.livejournal.com]

I picked 3 options! And the strange thing is, I usually wind up doing all three. I'll start at the most interesting, then procrastinate, then think of something more fun, then start with that and then... well.
Fall asleep sounds about right, hehe.

[franalan.livejournal.com]

I procrastinate. A lot. Which is why I ended up watching ever single episode of Criminal Minds when I was meant to be writing my dissertation... It's all about the last minute rush and panic of looming deadlines.

[mayela-delarue.livejournal.com]

OMG, that's my life!

[mayela-delarue.livejournal.com]

I've lost all ability to structure my work. I wish I could sleep under my desk half the time.

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

I couldn't possibly work on the things on the todo list. I might finish it, and then where would I be! The horror!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's surprising anything gets done, actually. *sigh*

Note to self: Stop trying to write at 4am.

I would say something wise and helpful here, but it would be a complete lie as I am guilty of both these things.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I would expect no less, you are not a simple ant! And yes, I sometimes find that cleaning actually sorts the story out in the back of my head so that I can go back and write brilliantly and quickly, so I suppose it all does work towards an end in a roundabout way -- if only it did so more quickly!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I try to keep my lists for the really necessary things, like Buy Loo Paper, Wash Clothes, etc. If I did broad planning lists, the whole house would soon be buried and I would need to put cleaning much higher up the order!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of Hiveminder before this. You constantly broaden my tech horizons :-)

[florahart]

8a: Decide that you immediately need to clean the house, but then also apply the same set of principles to that task as well, so you end up with assorted clean shelves and objects, a pile of laundry, the trash full until the taker-awayers come Tuesday, and nothing resembling tidiness in the shared areas. And, thanks to the brilliant plan to do something else entirely aspect, possibly also rising bread with no clean loaf pans to put it in, a random cake that no one but you will eat but which serves 12, and, I dunno, a monkey.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

But you do it with such panache!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I will always happily talk about cricket, you know ;-)

And you're not scattered, you're a complex and unique individual. With procrastination issues. It's why we're friends. (BTW, Porcine hijinks, is this code for more pig porn?)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Even as I typed that, I thought 'I am bound to know someone who has a legitimate reason for going to Alsace' ;-)

And yes, I hear you on the looped procrastinations!

[hanson-phreek.livejournal.com]

I'm an organizer, so my brain loves to "devise the perfect filing system for all your notes and reference books" all the time....no matter what I'm doing. Some people call it OCD and I might just agree...

But aside from wanting to organize everything, I like to start easy. It lets me get into things and build some confidence. And then it's easier for me to do the hard stuff.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, for me it's a sudden urge to practise Italian. In fact, just tonight I organised my language books.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Well, by then you're obviously exhausted!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I just thank the universe that the internet was enormously crapper when I was a student. I had to sleep with a computer science professor just to gain access to email for one degree. It was a time of simpler distractions (mostly trying to find a shaggable computer scientist ...).

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That's the annoying thing: at work, I am godlike! I can do six things at once and they all turn out splendidly, even if I know I will need to double check numbers five and six because they were done with half a brain.

At home I start something that I really want to finish, then do a bit of physio, play with a cat, knit, post to lj ... wonder why my thing remains unfinished ... Why do I leave my Mad Skillz at work?