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doin stuff
Feb. 3rd, 2019 05:36 pmsince Thursday i haven't done any of the grad school things i'm currently working on (i went to lab meeting on Friday and that was IT) but i have done a ton of other things so i'm going to list them here to make myself feel good!
i went to the doctor and got a prescription for that pesky ADHD problem. i was super nervous about this -- the last psychiatrist i went to said he was absolutely not giving me anything for it. re-read my neurological testing results; they're hilarious. almost everything is in the 95-99th percentile (i do very well at all standardized tests) and then there's the sustained attention test and i am....1st percentile.
the sustained attention test is torture, okay! they set you up with a laptop and headphones and a lady tonelessly says ONE or TWO every several seconds while at the same time the screen flashes ONE or TWO every several seconds and you are supposed to click only on the twos. And then it goes on for fifteen minutes!!! FIFTEEN MINUTES! HELL ON EARTH! i got distracted by: the proctor grading the previous sections of my test. the wall. maybe there was a bug on the wall. a pencil. the proctor again. the audio would startle me and i'd click by accident. i got distracted by not doing well on the test and worried about what that meant. the carpet was interesting. for literal ages. anyway 99 percent of people who take that test do better than me.
then i went to therapy and complained about not getting enough work done and hating myself about it, still, and apologized for having the same problem, still. he is very patient with this. i suspect the above unsolved ADHD problem is...contributing.
then i was emotional support for my adopted sad undergraduate.
we got back all the clothes from the laundry service, and, okay, here's the deal about paying someone else to do your laundry. it is extravagant. it is expensive. it is also the best goddamn fucking thing ever. the washer and dryer in our building are three long flights of stairs away, and it takes sixteen quarters to wash+dry each load, and i hate doing it. it's okay to spend money on something that makes your life better.
i drew a whole illustration for the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
cap_ironman RBB! i have one more picture i could add, but there's no time pressure now. also now i have a bingo card!
i wrote a couple of meta-y posts on here; i am now super super behind on my DW inbox but i'll get caught up eventually!
i made BREAD. i did a rosemary one that was super super good and easy. there was a minor yeast fuck-up where our apartment is chilly as fuck and the yeast wouldn't foam because the water wasn't warm, so i had to add more water and more yeast and more salt and then i had an extra cup of activated yeast, so...i had to make another bread. i decided to finally try one or those no-knead simple bread recipes and BOY HOWDY, the advertising on those things is VERY MISLEADING. it's a huge pain in the ass! overnight rise, then another rise, and it's sticky and you need a fancy pot and SO ON and basically you're stuck thinking about bread for 24 hours. it had better be good.
then i made cookie dough because i wanted to eat that for dinner, and froze all the extra. and we went to the grocery store and the pharmacy and now i have ice cream and all the things to make vegan chili.
my to-do list for today includes "write more fanfiction," "give self haircut," and "put away clean clothes," which probably won't all happen but that's cool, there's time tomorrow.
i went to the doctor and got a prescription for that pesky ADHD problem. i was super nervous about this -- the last psychiatrist i went to said he was absolutely not giving me anything for it. re-read my neurological testing results; they're hilarious. almost everything is in the 95-99th percentile (i do very well at all standardized tests) and then there's the sustained attention test and i am....1st percentile.
the sustained attention test is torture, okay! they set you up with a laptop and headphones and a lady tonelessly says ONE or TWO every several seconds while at the same time the screen flashes ONE or TWO every several seconds and you are supposed to click only on the twos. And then it goes on for fifteen minutes!!! FIFTEEN MINUTES! HELL ON EARTH! i got distracted by: the proctor grading the previous sections of my test. the wall. maybe there was a bug on the wall. a pencil. the proctor again. the audio would startle me and i'd click by accident. i got distracted by not doing well on the test and worried about what that meant. the carpet was interesting. for literal ages. anyway 99 percent of people who take that test do better than me.
then i went to therapy and complained about not getting enough work done and hating myself about it, still, and apologized for having the same problem, still. he is very patient with this. i suspect the above unsolved ADHD problem is...contributing.
then i was emotional support for my adopted sad undergraduate.
we got back all the clothes from the laundry service, and, okay, here's the deal about paying someone else to do your laundry. it is extravagant. it is expensive. it is also the best goddamn fucking thing ever. the washer and dryer in our building are three long flights of stairs away, and it takes sixteen quarters to wash+dry each load, and i hate doing it. it's okay to spend money on something that makes your life better.
i drew a whole illustration for the
cap_ironman RBB! i have one more picture i could add, but there's no time pressure now. also now i have a bingo card!i wrote a couple of meta-y posts on here; i am now super super behind on my DW inbox but i'll get caught up eventually!
i made BREAD. i did a rosemary one that was super super good and easy. there was a minor yeast fuck-up where our apartment is chilly as fuck and the yeast wouldn't foam because the water wasn't warm, so i had to add more water and more yeast and more salt and then i had an extra cup of activated yeast, so...i had to make another bread. i decided to finally try one or those no-knead simple bread recipes and BOY HOWDY, the advertising on those things is VERY MISLEADING. it's a huge pain in the ass! overnight rise, then another rise, and it's sticky and you need a fancy pot and SO ON and basically you're stuck thinking about bread for 24 hours. it had better be good.
then i made cookie dough because i wanted to eat that for dinner, and froze all the extra. and we went to the grocery store and the pharmacy and now i have ice cream and all the things to make vegan chili.
my to-do list for today includes "write more fanfiction," "give self haircut," and "put away clean clothes," which probably won't all happen but that's cool, there's time tomorrow.
