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just a blog about dogs

I’m right because i’m choosing topics i have no personal/emotional stake in which allows me to maintain a cold facade of logic and indifference, and i expect the same of you even though I’m arguing against your basic humanity :)

What do people think pro-choice is? Do they seriously think we’re holding women down and forcing them into abortions?!? Educate yourself fool!!!

you know what??? i think it’s next-level sexism that all these fanboys are annoyed about carol danvers being “cocky,” but nobody in the whoooole world every gave two fucks when tony was cocky. when peter quill was arrogant as all hell. when dr. strange thought he was all that and a bag of chips. but it’s incredibly wrong and inherently disgusting when a woman arrives on the scene, full-well KNOWING that she’s about to fuck thanos’ tight little ass with a massive green cactus-strap. it’s absolutely UNHEARD OF for a female character to walk up into the avengers’ compound (despite the fact that they are LITERALLY NAMED AFTER HER) ready to fuck some shit up, but it’s a-okay for all of the MCU male heroes to be full of themselves and thinking they’re hot shit. 

get the FUCK up outta here with that.

you know what’s probably more fun than playing chess? cheating at chess

ohhh would you look at that, my pawns found jesus and now they’re all bishops”

“so i realize it looks like i’m putting a thimble on the board but actually my rooks have been using their downtime to build another rook, one that’s better, stronger, faster—”

“hey welcome back. while you left to get a snack, those six pieces you’d captured slipped their guards, tunneled to safety and emerged right in the middle of your royal palace.”

“oof, looks like you’ve got my king cornered…maybe this is a good time to mention that shortly before we started playing, my pawns and knights revolted and instituted a representative democracy. feel free to kill the puppet ruler that was the one remaining vestige of our tyranny, you cringing servant of the crown. vive la revolution!

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Opened tumblr and saw many posts about how mourning for Notre dame is a sign of white privilege because “urr urr you don’t care about other’s tragedies and it’s just a building let the Christians rot”

Time for another unfollow spree

In fact, just never get involved with someone who’s perennially miserable. You’ll think that you’re the key to their happiness they’ve always been searching for, but you’ll just learn you’re another bullet point on the long list of things they’ve found a way to be disappointed about.

In relationships, I sometimes get so wrapped up in my own tendency to self-sabotage, I forget that other people are capable of hurting me, to the point that I’ll let people hurt me for months before I even start to wonder that I’m not doing it to myself.

How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

  • Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.
  • Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks
  • Your priority goes like this:
  • 5 minutes due YESTERDAY
  • 5 minutes due TOMORROW
  • Half-hour due YESTERDAY
  • Half-hour due TOMORROW
  • Hours due YESTERDAY
  • Hours due TOMORROW
  • 5 minutes due LATER
  • Half-hour due LATER
  • Hours due LATER
  • DAYS due YESTERDAY
  • DAYS due TOMORROW
  • DAYS due LATER
  • At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.
  • Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

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WOAH THIS SOUNDS HELPFUL. I’M GOING TO TRY THIS IMMEDIATELY. Also, I made a chart for myself, but if anyone else wants it for reference (or if this is wrong and I misread you can tell me) here it is:

i keep forgetting where to find this but it’s so helpful

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Wish I’ve known about this sooner

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We’re in the money, the sky is sunny, old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy