Messy but Organised Studying

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[logicsmessystudy]

Can you share your journal with us..,like some journaling inspiration and ideas

Ummm... sure!

The method I use for journalling is pretty much the original Ryder Carroll method. I found that anything beyond that really doesn't last long for me because I only get artsy when I have the time. Furthermore, I'm super inconsistent with my daily logs because I have ADHD, so the original method works really well for me.

I do have a cool debt calculator thing so I don't feel like I'm running on treadmill when I erase some debt. At the time of originally writing the answer for this (it's been in my drafts for a while), I'd just paid off my accommodation debt from second year so I could graduate. The debt calculator means I can see my progress, which is super important for my motivation.

I also have some book and reading trackers, because I'm a massive book nerd. Books in general are actually my special interest. I have a whole separate journal for that as well so when a book comes into my possession I write it there and I have done since Christmas 2015 (so it'll be ten years old this Christmas, which is wild to me).

For my dissertation, when I was getting to the end I used these tick lists to get through my sourcing and referencing easier, especially for Chapter 2, which was extremely reference heavy due to being more about Merlin than literally anything else.

Aside from those, I have my rolling weeklies.

Those are based on this tutorial by Plant Based Bride and are useful for when I have a busy week, mostly during my various finals seasons this year but also during busy periods in general. I don't pre-set up my days through weekly spreads, so it helps delegate tasks to days when I have a full to-do. It can also help with scheduling, like how I once used the rolling weekly to plan out my planned show-viewing schedule for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in an older journal.

These are the bases for my bullet journal and have helped me keep this journal going for a year and eleven months now, outlasting all my previous bullet journals.

[logicsmessystudy]

Update 2025

I am alive. It has been over a year since I graduated. What have I been doing?

I got a job! After months and months of unemployment, I got a job as a library assistant in a school. It's a perfect fit (a bit of a long commute, but otherwise I'm happy).

I did some writing! Not a lot, but I have written.

I did some travelling around the UK! Only to a few places, but I've been on a lot of trains.

I read a lot! I'm past my reading goal for the year (30 books), as well as my page goal (10k) so I'm on the road to finishing the year out having read a lot more than that.

I might do another days of productivity to finish the year out and finish my WIPs, because I'm overloaded with things I haven't finished. But I'm alive, and doing better than I was post-graduation.

I'll see you later, Logic.

[hurricanebreeze]

i'm spreading the gospel, except the gospel is getting a library card and frequenting your local library

[canmom]

hypothetical 1

you have £1,000,000 to distribute evenly between a number of people. you decide how many.

all the recipients will be total strangers

you will never meet them after they receive the money, nor find out what they do with it.

they are chosen uniformly at random from the entire population of the world

the money will be in a form they can easily access, converted to their local currency.

for simplicity, the number of people must be a power of 10.

if you don't distribute this money in this way, it will be destroyed.

do you give...

1p each to 100,000,000 people

10p each to 10,000,000 people

£1 each to 1,000,000 people

£10 each to 100,000 people

£100 each to 10,000 people

£1000 each to 1,000 people

£10,000 each to 100 people

£100,000 each to 10 people

£1,000,000 to one person

Voting ended onSep 15, 2024

[canmom]

hypothetical 2

we have imprisoned 1000 people. you are distrubuting 1000 tokens in the same manner. 9 other people have been given the same task, so in total there are 10,000 tokens in play. after everyone has made their pick, any prisoners with 100 or more tokens will be allowed to leave. the rest will be killed.

you have no way to communicate with the other token distributors.

the prisoners are all in solitary confinement and cannot trade tokens.

any extra tokens beyond 100 confer no advantage.

you can freely pick the number of tokens per person as long as the number divides 1000 without remainder.

do you go for...

1 token each to all 1000 prisoners

2 tokens each to 500 prisoners

4 tokens each to 250 prisoners

5 tokens each to 200 prisoners

8 tokens each to 125 prisoners

10 tokens each to 100 prisoners

20 tokens each to 50 prisoners

25 tokens each to 40 prisoners

40 tokens each to 25 prisoners

50 tokens each to 20 prisoners

100 tokens each to 10 prisoners

more than 100 tokens per prisoner

Voting ended onSep 9, 2024

for bonus points, work out the optimal choice to save as many prisoners as possible...

(edit: actually this one is kind of obvious, it's 100 each to 10. but maybe it changes if there's more people handing out tokens)

[canmom]

hypothetical 3

just shy of two million people are trapped in a region of land approximately one third the size of Hong Kong. they have been bombed more or less indiscriminately for approaching a year, and nearly all infrastructure in the area has been levelled. disease and starvation are rampant. there is only one functioning exit, but for residents of this region, it is not possible to pass through it without what is essentially a substantial bribe. but it is possible, albeit difficult, to get money into the territory. various people have set up fundraisers to evacuate specific people and families, and there are ongoing efforts to verify which of these are genuine by multiple parties who have some connection to the region. aid organisations are bringing food and medical supplies into the territory but due to the geopolitical context, their capacity is limited and unpredictable and sometimes the occupying power also straight up bombs people waiting for food. as a result, what food is available is very expensive, and finite.

it is implausible that the entire population could be evacuated by these means. there is no way to know which of the various fundraisers will make their goal, or if evacuation will be possible when they do. it is unclear how long the war will drag on and what the prospects of survival are for people trapped in this situation, but at the moment it seems like the prospects are 'indefinitely' and 'bad'.

you have a finite but nonzero amount of disposable income which is not sufficient to get even one person out, but you wish to contribute all the same. various other people who you do not know are also in the same situation making decisions about whether and how much to help, and there are multiple websites attempting to coordinate donations. in addition to this, various political organisations are attempting to weaken the occupying force rhetorically and materially, often risking arrest to do so, and they're demanding money for things like demonstrations and bail funds. with the energy, time and money available to you, what do you do?

no poll this time. you know it's not really a hypothetical.

[ayeforscotland]

This is absolutely catastrophic.

[bingusthefourth]

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[calmdowngorgeous]

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

[hurricanebreeze]

🇵🇸Fanfiction Commissions for Palestine🇵🇸

Hello!

I am opening fanfiction commissions for the first time for @dcufans4palestine.

Here's how it works:

You can contact me at @hurricanebreeze, @diamondsnowflakes or on Discord (my user is hurricanebreeze). Please talk to me about your request before you do anything else.

Commissions are paid for through a donation to any of the Donation Options listed on the dcufans4palestine's Carrd. I will only start work on your commission after I have proof of donation.

Due to personal constraints, I am only offering five slots.

The ships I'll write for are:

Tim Drake/Kon-el

Tim Drake/Kon-el/Bart Allen

Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain

Cissie King-Jones/Cassie Sandsmark

I will also write genfic involving the Batfamily and the Young Justice '98.

Feel free to ask about any ship that is not listed here. You never know if you don't ask and I might still be able write them or at least point you in the direction of someone within dcufans4palestine who will.

I will not write:

NSFW

Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault or Rape

Implied/Referenced Underage

Onscreen Major Character Death

I am charging £1 per 100 words from 500 up to 3k words.

I will need proof of donation with date, and with personal information redacted.

See @dcufans4palestine for more information.

Commissions are currently open!

[mydignityisinflames]

Happy Election Eve!

For all those eligible to vote in the UK General election get ready for tomorrow. Polling stations are open between 7am and 10pm and you must bring VOTER ID

Valid voter ID includes

UK or Northern Ireland photocard driving licence (full or provisional)

a driving licence issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands

a UK passport

a passport issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or a Commonwealth country

a PASS card (National Proof of Age Standards Scheme)

a Blue Badge

a biometric residence permit (BRP)

a Defence Identity Card (MOD form 90)

a national identity card issued by the EU, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein

a Northern Ireland Electoral Identity Card

a Voter Authority Certificate

an Anonymous Elector’s Document

an older person’s bus pass

a disabled person’s bus pass

an Oyster 60+ card

a Freedom Pass

a Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC)

a 60 and Over Welsh Concessionary Travel Card

a Disabled Person’s Welsh Concessionary Travel Card

a Northern Ireland concessionary travel pass

The name on you ID must match what is registered on the electoral roll. If it does not you have to take a document with you proving you've changed your name (e.g, marriage certificate)

You can still use your ID even if it has expired, as long as it still looks like you

[sayruq]

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Let's do our part to help the people of Gaza!!!!

[jewfrogs]

this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

[naamahdarling]

I have a friend who is an editor, and gets submissions of mostly poetry and short stories.

I have had a glimpse into her slush pile, and let me tell you, the contents were unbelievable and immediately disabused me of the notion that reading through submissions is in any way glamorous. People have the nerve to submit unhinged paranoid ramblings, fetish porn, and a seemingly endless supply of poems about masturbation.

I no longer feel like my fiction is somehow an imposition on the people who read it. It may be forgettable, but at least it isn't typeset to look like sperm.

Do not be afraid to submit your work. Your competition is not only worse than you think, it's worse than you ever imagined.

[silverhand]

Do these three things to get to the top of the slush pile:

The place has a style sheet. Use it. They say they want your MS in 16.5 point Papyrus italic with 0.8 inch margins all around, guess what you're doing before you send it off? Save As, reformat, send it. In the absence of a specific guide: Courier 12 pt (Times New Roman if you must), double spaced, align left, tab 0.5 at each new paragraph.

Check the word count. Don't submit novellas to 2500 word short story venues. BTW, you format the MS in that old style above because the question isn't literal words. Courier 12pt double spaced gives you 250 words per page for typesetting purposes. 2500 words is 10 ms pages, 5000 is 20 pages, etc.

Don't send your romance to Analog or your war story to Harlequin. If it's a cross-genre story, be sure there's enough of what the publication is focused on to interest them, but breaking through is hard if that's not something they usually do.

That's basically what every single editors' panel at every con I've ever been to has boiled down to. And invariably, someone tries to get up and argue with them, not realizing it's not a discussion.

Bonus tip: Don't be in any way cute in your cover letter. Just the facts/Luke Skywalker's message to Jabba the Hut in ROTJ.

Enclosed/attached is my story <Title> for your publication <Magazine>. It is x (rounded to the nearest 500) words. I can be reached at <email> (that you check regularly and isn't likely to dump things into spam) and <phone>.

(If submitting a hard copy: The manuscript is disposable. A SASE is enclosed for your response./A SASE is included for return of the manuscript and your response.)

Thank you for your consideration.

If submitting a novella length piece or greater, a brief and complete summary is appropriate.

In the midst of an interstellar revolt against an evil galactic Empire, vital weapon plans fall into the hands of a farm boy on the edges of the galaxy. With the help of an aging warrior from the Old Republic, and a smuggler with a dark past and his imposing alien copilot, the four set out to deliver them to the rebel forces but are instead flung into a rescue mission to save the beautiful princess who stole the plans as worlds are destroyed by the might of the Empire's weapon, the Death Star.

Captured by the Death Star on route to deliver the plans, they manage to escape the base with the princess, the old warrior sacrificing himself to make this possible. As the Death Star approaches the rebel base, they use the captured plans to stage a desperate final stand. In a fierce space battle of single-pilot ships over the surface of the moon-sized weapon, the farm boy manages to make the critical shot with an unexpected assist from the smuggler, destroying it.

Never under any circumstance put a cliffhanger into a query letter summary. There is no faster way to get the entire MS binned than doing that.

Happy writing.

PS "Top of the slush pile" means into the top 25% of manuscripts received. Three quarters of the submissions don't take the trouble to do even those three basic steps.

Now, that still means 25/100 submissions or 250/1000 submissions, but it still improves your odds and forms the basis for starting a relationship with the publisher for the next piece you send them.

PPS This is obviously about prose. Poetry certainly has its own submission rules, and I know none of them. If you're writing poetry, find out what they are.

[dduane]

@silverhand's reply is right on.

[logicsmessystudy]

Day 44-47 of 47 days until End of Finals

Hiya!

Sooo... I got sick. I got norovirus after submitting my second-to-last assignment, and that sucked. So, here's what I did in those last four days.

Today I:

Finished and submitted my Screenwriting portfolio.

Let my bio-parent measure me for my graduation gown and rented it out.

Packed and went home.

Started having the worst time.

Came to the morning my last assignment was due without the ability to get another EC, so I ended up submitting an incomplete piece of work that was basically a fully written and sourced paragraph with my essay plan attached, but 40-50% is probably better than a 0%.

And so ends my undergrad degree with a very underwhelming and ill whisper.

Sorry it took so long to add this. I really was not well. Thank you for being there over the last month and a half of my degree!

[logicsmessystudy]

Day 43 of 47 days until End of Finals

Hello!

We march onwards and I'm in assignment town.

Today I:

Reserved my tickets for graduation.

Wrote the screenplay sample for my screenwriting portfolio.

Went to the dentists. My teeth are good and now have an appointment for next year.

Started reading a new book.

Wrote the commentary for my screenplay sample.

Work town! We love it!

See you tomorrow!

[logicsmessystudy]

Day 42 of 47 days until End of Finals

Hi!

So, I'm at home again. I didn't mean for this to genuinely trip me up, but I suppose going so hard for three weeks was going to have its consequences.

Today I:

Played some Animal Crossing. After three weeks without it, I decided to pick up and play for a bit. I even bought turnips again.

Planned the thesis statements for each paragraph of my Villains & Vigilantes essay (I did do some work).

Other than that, I didn't do a lot. My body is slowing down a bit, I think.

I'll see you tomorrow (later).

[logicsmessystudy]

Day 40 and 41 of 47 days until Dissertation Deadline End of Finals

Hello hello!

I moved the goalposts again. And skipped two days because after my dissertation I was exhausted and events were happening.

Over these past fews days I:

Collected my suit trousers and went to the Humanities Ball.

Watched the Northern Lights in my own garden.

Packed and did my chores.

Went home because I have a dentists appointment.

All tiring things, as you can see, especially after handing in my final project. But I'm back on the grind because I still have a portfolio and an essay to go, so I'll talk to you later.

[logicsmessystudy]

Day 39 of 39 days until Dissertation Deadline

Hello!

Man, I didn't think we'd get here, but we did! Don't mind the lack of picture, think of it as I was working too hard to think about it.

Today I:

Submitted my final dissertation! Admittedly there was a brief few hours when I thought it was going to be capped at 40 due to submitting 8 minutes late, but it's not going to be penalised. And it's done.

It feels underwhelming to write that now. I'm sure I'll move the goalposts tomorrow for the end of my finals, which should be next week. But for now, I requested a reasonable accommodation on my essay deadline for tomorrow because my head is pounding, so I'm going to go to bed.

Bye!

[logicsmessystudy]

Day 38 of 39 days until Dissertation Deadline

Hihi!

I'm posting this at 5am on Day 39. I'm still working. Hopefully, I'll have good news to give you tomorrow, but today you get a progress update.

Today I:

Had a mental health appointment, which was fun. I'm always surprised when I have more sessions left.

Sent my suit trousers in for hemming.

Changed my bed because it was feeling gross.

Started a load of laundry because I was also running out of underwear.

Finished paragraph 1 and 2 of Chapter 1 of my dissertation. I also started my dissertation introduction with a banger of a line.

So work and chores. I get no rest. Oh boy.

See you tomorrow.

[logicsmessystudy]

Day 37 of 39 days until Dissertation Deadline

And we're back on time again! Woo!

Actually, we're technically early because I'm exhausted and want to go to sleep. But it's still just in time for me to have good news!

Today I:

Submitted both my portfolio and commentary! One out of two final projects in and two out of five separate assignments in.

Collected The History of Sexuality from the library so I can add it to my dissertation once I'm no longer dead on my feet.

Cleared the cans from my room.

Vaguely planned my Villain & Vigilantes essay on Todoist.

Updated my bullet journal because I hadn't touched it since Day 33.

We got a win, boys! And hopefully, we'll get another tomorrow. No sleep for the wicked, nor for the snowed in under work.

See you then!