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And why aren't you doing it?

Well I should be in a lecture right now but since I didn't receive the book we need for said lecture until 10 minutes ago I found it pointless to attend a talk on a book I have never read.

Instead I should be doing the reading for tomorrow's lecture, which is The Man Who Would Be King. Instead I'm on here posting this thread.

So NSG! What should you be doing right now?

I should be doing some translation, instead I'm bored out of my skull, browsing NSG.

I missed a lecture, signed a lease and am now considering cutting off a horses head and leaving it in my flatmates pillow.
Our kitchen is small, and there are 6 of us (i probably shouldn't be giving out these details but what the hell, it's not like there's anything worth stealing), and he is the only one who takes a week to wash up one days dishes, yep you guessed it World of Warcraft has captured his soul.
As for myself I should be typing out my journal

De-duplicating a database - which I am doing but there is only so much you can take at a time.

I should be writing an essay or a composition, but I've just been chatting in the kitchen during an 'extended luncheon'.

I should be doing some translation, instead I'm bored out of my skull, browsing NSG.

Translate now!

I missed a lecture, signed a lease and am now considering cutting off a horses head and leaving it in my flatmates pillow.
Our kitchen is small, and there are 6 of us (i probably shouldn't be giving out these details but what the hell, it's not like there's anything worth stealing), and he is the only one who takes a week to wash up one days dishes, yep you guessed it World of Warcraft has captured his soul.
As for myself I should be typing out my journal

Type out your journal now!

Motivation techniques are copyright of Londim.

Translate now!

Do not want!

I should be working, and I am. But with a slow system, and a slow day all in all, there's plenty of time for NSG in between.

Do not want!

I'm trying to motivate you! You can do it!

I should play Hears of Iron 2: Doomsday. But, I always forget it for something other.

I'm trying to motivate you! You can do it!

I'll try.

Translate now!

Type out your journal now!

Motivation techniques are copyright of Londim.
lol, okay i'll do it after i've eaten my food.
Do not want!
lol i concur
I'm trying to motivate you! You can do it!
Post a Mr motivator video.
oh speaking of motivators, why aren't you doing your work Londim?
one rule for you another for us is it?

:p

Going through a Japan new hire's paperwork.

lol, okay i'll do it after i've eaten my food.

lol i concur

Post a Mr motivator video.
oh speaking of motivators, why aren't you doing your work Londim?
one rule for you another for us is it?

:p

I just picked up the book from my shelf and am about to start reading!

I just picked up the book from my shelf and am about to start reading!

Work, mate, work!!

Alright. Let's see who finishes first!

I just picked up the book from my shelf and am about to start reading!

are you not creating a paradox?
By asking us to work you are actually stopping us from working because we'll wait for your response to our complaints and you'l complain and we'l complain and it will be a vicious circle and then nobody gets work done!:eek2:

Alright. Let's see who finishes first!

Tis a challenge!:eek:

I should probably be eating breakfast.

Usually I would have classes from 8 to 4:45 today, but birthday magic made it so that I only have one class, from 3:30 to 4:45. :)

Or, maybe not birthday magic, but the lab was canceled and the other class was canceled and it all happened to fall on my birthday...

i should be exercising but its too cold to walk to the gym

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Happy Birthday!

I should probably be eating breakfast.

Usually I would have classes from 8 to 4:45 today, but birthday magic made it so that I only have one class, from 3:30 to 4:45. :)

Or, maybe not birthday magic, but the lab was canceled and the other class was canceled and it all happened to fall on my birthday...

Tanjobi omedeto, Chandy!!:)

I should be reading and reviewing an article for my intro to food security class. I should also have a pot of chili on the stove so I have something to reheat at work tonight.

Happy Birthday!

Thanks. They're also giving out free Ben and Jerry's ice cream today, so I guess my birthday is just really lucky.

I should be at the vaunted award ceremony for my school, but I'm here on NSG and crusing around the Internet. :p

I should be revising a paper I've gotten back from a journal. More to the point trying to figure out how to explain a concept I've spent a good 2000 odd words from my thesis on in about a paragraph or two. Damn those peer reviewers!

Luckily it's mostly expanding and rewriting sections, no need for increased data collection or drastic reanalysis :D

Thanks. They're also giving out free Ben and Jerry's ice cream today, so I guess my birthday is just really lucky.

Oh wow! Free B&J's! This time next year, why don't you come 'round spend your birthday at my place? ;P

Happy birthday to Chandelier.

I should be looking for a job, but that's depressing, and since my birthday was yesterday, I decided to take the week off from that.

Since I decided not to look for a job, I should be writing a story I promised to some people who are not going to pay me for it, but I'm not really in love with that story, so I'm on NSG instead, pretending to be working up the inner motivation to get into it while waiting for the coffee to kick in.

Since I decided not to look for a job, I should be writing a story I promised to some people who are not going to pay me for it, but I'm not really in love with that story, so I'm on NSG instead, pretending to be working up the inner motivation to get into it while waiting for the coffee to kick in.I hate having to write about stuff I have no motivation to write about.

Oh, another thing I should be doing...
Working on my military justice system research paper. :D
But...I'm not. o_0;

Im retired, i dont have to do anything.

I should be vomiting forth 10 pages of terrible screenplay treatment for my Creative Writing class.

Instead, I'm simultaneously playing TF2, eating a Curry Pan and trying to read a volume of Genshiken in between resurrections. I swear, if I die one more time I'm going to watch an episode of Bamboo Blade instead.

This just in: Some jerk sniped my face off while I was typing this. ARRRRGGGHHHHH.

I hate having to write about stuff I have no motivation to write about.

Oh, another thing I should be doing...
Working on my military justice system research paper. :D
But...I'm not. o_0;
I tried to weasel out of it by hinting around that I've kept them waiting such a horribly long time, I would totally understand if they gave the project to someone else or had decided to take it in a different direction while I was AWOL, but no luck there. They eagerly await whatever I dish out. Sigh. :D

I should be vomiting forth 10 pages of terrible screenplay treatment for my Creative Writing class.

Instead, I'm simultaneously playing TF2, eating a Curry Pan and trying to read a volume of Genshiken in between resurrections. I swear, if I die one more time I'm going to watch an episode of Bamboo Blade instead.

This just in: Some jerk sniped my face off while I was typing this. ARRRRGGGHHHHH.Multi-tasking is fun, huh? :p

I tried to weasel out of it by hinting around that I've kept them waiting such a horribly long time, I would totally understand if they gave the project to someone else or had decided to take it in a different direction while I was AWOL, but no luck there. They eagerly await whatever I dish out. Sigh. :DI've made people wait months, and all they wanted was a two-page introduction, or character profile. :D

Some of them gave up, others didn't. I hate it when they don't give up. ...Means I have to write even more stuff. Ew.

Multi-tasking is fun, huh? :p

Not so much "fun" as "insightful".

For instance, if I ever wind up drafted into the armed forces I'll know to concentrate on the shooty-shooty rather than stuffing my face or trying to read manga. :D

Not so much "fun" as "insightful".

For instance, if I ever wind up drafted into the armed forces I'll know to concentrate on the shooty-shooty rather than stuffing my face or trying to read manga. :DThat would be a very good idea. Since I'm joining in one capacity or another I know to concentrate on the "don't get shot" part. :p

That would be a very good idea. Since I'm joining in one capacity or another I know to concentrate on the "don't get shot" part. :pI know that we've spent the last 8 years alternately siding with, confused by, hating or attempting to ignore former President George W. Bush, but if he wrote a book called "How to dodge" I'd probably buy it.

Making notes on the fifth century Gallic aristocracy, when Julian the apostate would interest me far more. Not that I'm doing either; I'm having a well deserved mid-afternoon G&T, what with having been making notes since 9 anyway.

I know that we've spent the last 8 years alternately siding with, confused by, hating or attempting to ignore former President George W. Bush, but if he wrote a book called "How to dodge" I'd probably buy it.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20081215/0013729ece6b0aafd01706.jpg
Cowboy ninja! :D

Multi-tasking is fun, huh? :p

I've made people wait months, and all they wanted was a two-page introduction, or character profile. :D

Some of them gave up, others didn't. I hate it when they don't give up. ...Means I have to write even more stuff. Ew.
I hate it when I foolishly promise to do stuff. *slaps self on wrist* At the time, I didn't realize how difficult it would be to get inside the concept, nor how little thematic direction they'd give me, nor that I would soon develop a bigger project of my own that is, naturally, much more interesting to me and sufficiently different that I can't really work on both at the same time. So now I'm just trying to force myself to finish their thing so I can get back to my thing. And not doing too well, as you can see. :D

I hate it when I foolishly promise to do stuff. *slaps self on wrist* At the time, I didn't realize how difficult it would be to get inside the concept, nor how little thematic direction they'd give me, nor that I would soon develop a bigger project of my own that is, naturally, much more interesting to me and sufficiently different that I can't really work on both at the same time. So now I'm just trying to force myself to finish their thing so I can get back to my thing. And not doing too well, as you can see. :DI can imagine that little voice in my head right now. "Just get it done, before somebody stabs you."

I should be working on organising a charity fundraising event. Unfortunately spending 8 straight hours looking at an ENT textbook has drained all of my energy. The sick and needy will just have to wait

And I have finished reading the story. I am prepared for tomorrow's lecture! Hmm what should I be doing now....

I have nothing that needs doing now! Hoorah!

And I have finished reading the story. I am prepared for tomorrow's lecture! Hmm what should I be doing now....

I have nothing that needs doing now! Hoorah!

There's always something profitable you could be doing. I'd suggest afternoon tea.

There's always something profitable you could be doing. I'd suggest afternoon tea.

That's actually not a bad idea. I'll go make myself a cup of tea and maybe a sandwich.

I should be looking for the proverbial "Needle in the Haystack". Fortunately I have a really strong magnet and a metal detector. So it leaves a lot of free time to develop the mind. I call them Brain ups. Kind of like a push up.

I have to go to a talk on spending the summer saving the whales or building houses in the third world or something of that nature and I started wondering if this hippy life is really for me, so I've logged on to NSG to check out the uber-capitalists to scare me back into an altruistic mood for when they repeat the talk at five.

i should be working on a process map for using Docebo LMS and developing a working dummy site on my local server, among other things. just got got back from the printers after delivering and designing a 20 page booklet off to press, just in time, and i'm tired now. worried cos i didn't do a spell cheek before packaging it :-S (but other people proof read it, so it should be ok)

i should be working on a process map for using Docebo LMS and developing a working dummy site on my local server, among other things.

I don't know what some of those words mean. :(

*Cries uncontrollably*

I'm between classes right now, and should either be reviewing the material for the next class, or continuing my research for a first draft that's due on Monday.

*sigh*

Finishing off my postgrad applications, writing my upcoming talk on virtue-orientated enviromental ethics, getting properly stuck into both Hegel's Philosophy of the Right and Hume's Treatise (gaaaah...), finding a new flatmate or a new flat and, most probably, getting some kip.

It's a hard-nut life...

I should be going to the grocery store but I'm being lazy so I don't want to walk a mile and then shop for a bunch of stuff and then lug it home for a mile all the while listening to my children bitch and whine about how they hate walking anywhere and why don't I just buy another car and how people look at them funny and how the groceries are heavy and how child labor is illegal in my country and how their "normal" friends have SUVs for this type of thing and also my brain is fuzzy today so like the closest store (the one a mile away) is actually one where nobody speaks English and I don't know if I can remember enough Spanish to do it properly at the meat counter and......bleh.

I'll get up in a minute and go. :mad:

I should be getting my a** moving on my aplication for Grad School, but I need to see my former undergrad advisor, and I can't do that until likely after the 1st.

I should be going to the grocery store but I'm being lazy so I don't want to walk a mile and then shop for a bunch of stuff and then lug it home for a mile all the while listening to my children bitch and whine about how they hate walking anywhere and why don't I just buy another car and how people look at them funny and how the groceries are heavy and how child labor is illegal in my country and how their "normal" friends have SUVs for this type of thing and also my brain is fuzzy today so like the closest store (the one a mile away) is actually one where nobody speaks English and I don't know if I can remember enough Spanish to do it properly at the meat counter and......bleh.

I'll get up in a minute and go. :mad:

... have Hubby (I assume he has the car) do the Grocery shopping on the way home?

I'm supposed to be out there saving computers from incompetent users.

but no one called yet.

I should probably be getting a job. But if I do I won't be able to go to the mountains next week, so I won't. That means I should probably put pants on and do something productive like eat or change the oil in my car.

... have Hubby (I assume he has the car) do the Grocery shopping on the way home?
That would require me making a list.......also too lazy.

I'm supposed to be out there saving computers from incompetent users.

but no one called yet.
Hubby is doing this and too many people are calling!

I don't know what some of those words mean. :(

*Cries uncontrollably*

aww, *pats* :fluffle:

Docebo is an open source Learning Management System (LMS as opposed to CMS for Content management). its software that sits on a web server and interacts with a database, usually mysql. CMS, like Joomla or Drupal, and LMS are great because they can be thought of as like an operating system for a website, being a platform on which you can put more programs (well, php scripts) to do other things. they usually come with the basics of a web2.0 style capabilities, such as user systems for registration and logging on, commenting, article submission, etc. sure, you could do all this directly, but i'm not php-savvy enough to write my own database apps (and certainly not design them securely), so building on open source sofware like these is perfect.

taadaa! http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2226/smileis1.gif

That would require me making a list.......also too lazy. Do what my parents do. call me each time they think of something they need picked up. :p

Hubby is doing this and too many people are calling!*Sympathises with Smunkee's hubby*

Oh wow! Free B&J's! This time next year, why don't you come 'round spend your birthday at my place? ;P

Jerry was actually there! :eek2: :D

I should be buying groceries, mailing a package, cleaning out the fireplace, doing laundry, scooping a litter box, baking cookies, trying out my new bread machine, writing a letter, signing up for a class, finishing a needlepoint project that was supposed to be a Christmas gift but will, instead, be a gift for next Christmas, paying my HOA fee, vacuuming, grooming a cat, making a dentist appointment - in short doing almost anything but what I am doing.

I should be writing the following 5000 word essay "Examine the extent to which traditional approaches to security are gendered".

Look up 'fun' in the dictionary. Contrast with the aforementioned assigned task.

Editing the project that I had ants in my pants about doing all December and now that I have the first bit of raw material, I've sat on it for a week...

I should be doing fuck all, which is what I am doing.

Earlier today, I saw this thread, and I should've posted in it to inform NSG that I should've been in the studio, screenprinting onto leather bookspines.

Earlier today, I saw this thread, and I should've posted in it to inform NSG that I should've been in the studio, screenprinting onto leather bookspines.
That sounds interesting -- more interesting than this story I'm supposed to be writing, which I have actually at least drafted the introductory part of today.

That sounds interesting -- more interesting than this story I'm supposed to be writing, which I have actually at least drafted the introductory part of today.

Currently illustrating and hand-printing woodcuts for Ambrose Bierce's short story, Stanley Fleming's Hallucination. It's hand bound with green leather covers, screenprinted with a black and gold linework accent and manual letterpressed title.

Currently illustrating and hand-printing woodcuts for Ambrose Bierce's short story, Stanley Fleming's Hallucination. It's hand bound with green leather covers, screenprinted with a black and gold linework accent and manual letterpressed title.
Shit, that sounds amazing. Is it a personal project, or are you doing it on commission, or are you an artisan publisher?

Shit, that sounds amazing. Is it a personal project, or are you doing it on commission, or are you an artisan publisher?

It's a personal project, though there's a brilliant shop in Edinburgh called Analogue that carries a lot of small run, self-published works. However, it's turning out to be quite a bit more work than I anticipated. Printmaking isn't my normal method of illustration.

EDIT: http://www.analoguebooks.co.uk

I should be doing Geecku. But she's fictional, sooo....

It's a personal project, though there's a brilliant shop in Edinburgh called Analogue that carries a lot of small run, self-published works. However, it's turning out to be quite a bit more work than I anticipated. Printmaking isn't my normal method of illustration.

EDIT: http://www.analoguebooks.co.uk
What is your normal method, if I may ask?

I'm a collage artist, myself. Illustrated books of my own content and design are an ongoing body-of-work project for me. I ramble all over the map with them. I have some that are one-off art object books, some that are designed to be laser-copy reproducible and then handbound, and others that are "altered books", building a new book object out of an old book, either using the content of the old book or inserting original content into it, as well as altering it physically.

For a couple of years now, I've been considering plans to launch a very, very small, specialty publishing company -- in a way -- some crazy hybrid artisan thing.

But I'm an instant gratification junkie, so I avoid the classic European binding techniques and go more for a particular Japanese sewn binding that is very minimal and relatively quick, once you master the technique. It's functionally top-rate (durable and opens flat), but extremely simple in appearance -- it doesn't make for an expensive book, looks-wise.

And wow, look! I'm using this as an excuse not to do what I'm supposed to be doing. :D

What is your normal method, if I may ask?

I'm a collage artist, myself. Illustrated books of my own content and design are an ongoing body-of-work project for me. I ramble all over the map with them. I have some that are one-off art object books, some that are designed to be laser-copy reproducible and then handbound, and others that are "altered books", building a new book object out of an old book, either using the content of the old book or inserting original content into it, as well as altering it physically.

For a couple of years now, I've been considering plans launch a very, very small, specialty publishing company -- in a way -- some crazy hybrid artisan thing.

But I'm an instant gratification junkie, so I avoid the classic European binding techniques and go more for a particular Japanese sewn binding that is very minimal and relatively quick, once you master the technique. It's functionally top-rate (durable and opens flat), but by extremely simple in appearance -- it doesn't make for an expensive book, looks-wise.

And wow, look! I'm using this as an excuse not to do what I'm supposed to be doing. :D

I do a lot of Japanese bookbinding too, but not for things produced on a commercial scale. The book I'm working on now will be three hole bound with gold hemp thread.

My normal methods are pretty varied and depend on the project/client's specifications. I do quite a lot of collage and digital manipulation, but most of my illustration are done in black indian ink and a mixture of quink (which is a specific brand of blue ink that spreads very well) and water. Combined with collage of carefully chosen paper, mixing these inks with various thinners/thickeners allows a variety of tones - and in the case of quink - colours. I can get green and yellow gradients from a blue ink.

That said, this is all my recent work. I want to do more printmaking in future.

i should be cooking tea now, but stayed in the office till past 9 to get work done... so now there's no time to cook :(

what i am doing is fucking about on here and continuing to prepare for a meeting tomorrow, eating bits of raw carrott and drinking pepsi (healthy *nods*)

I do a lot of Japanese bookbinding too, but not for things produced on a commercial scale. The book I'm working on now will be three hole bound with gold hemp thread.

My normal methods are pretty varied and depend on the project/client's specifications. I do quite a lot of collage and digital manipulation, but most of my illustration are done in black indian ink and a mixture of quink (which is a specific brand of blue ink that spreads very well) and water. Combined with collage of carefully chosen paper, mixing these inks with various thinners/thickeners allows a variety of tones - and in the case of quink - colours. I can get green and yellow gradients from a blue ink.

That said, this is all my recent work. I want to do more printmaking in future.
Interesting. I'm familiar with quink, but haven't used it in a very long time. I used to do a lot of pen/brush and ink work but I wandered away from that and into collages of found images and 3D constructions. Good luck with the project. :D

I do a lot of Japanese bookbinding too, but not for things produced on a commercial scale. The book I'm working on now will be three hole bound with gold hemp thread.

My normal methods are pretty varied and depend on the project/client's specifications. I do quite a lot of collage and digital manipulation, but most of my illustration are done in black indian ink and a mixture of quink (which is a specific brand of blue ink that spreads very well) and water. Combined with collage of carefully chosen paper, mixing these inks with various thinners/thickeners allows a variety of tones - and in the case of quink - colours. I can get green and yellow gradients from a blue ink.

That said, this is all my recent work. I want to do more printmaking in future.

sounds cool, got pictures?

I should be doing fuck all, which is what I am doing.

This ^.

I should be reading Locke's Second Treatise on Government.

Studying for finals

I should be falling into the sweet embrace of Morpheus, but that's just not happening.

The weekend is here so no more work for me...unless I am successful in my current job application.

Your mother.

Your mother.

I can't believe it took that long for someone to say it