Despite the shit Life has dished out at me, I have always tried to rise above it, no matter how hard, how dark, how fucking impossible it can be. I try to live and have fun and make as profound a contribution to others and to the world as I possibly can.
It’s been a fight every step of the way for these 41 years of this particular existence, and right now, all I can do - all I can manage to do - is grit my teeth, bear the crippling pain that the medications never seem able to abrogate, put my head down, and endure.
I carry on, I force myself to keep going, even though with each passing day, it gets just that little bit worse. I’m so tired. My body is broken. My mind is deteriorating, thanks to all the drugs I have no choice but to take. I am worn out. Nevertheless, scarred and damaged as it is, my heart is still beating.
That counts for something, I suppose.
Prompt by Chris Fox:
Write about a character who gets lost in a daydream during a slow day at work.
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Water Swirls by Omission1234
Perfectionism and ProcrastinationWhen perfectionism and procrastination combine, you can be your own worst enemy. By freeing yourself from this complex process, you can better use your time to accomplish more with less stress. Here you’ll see a sample of how this process works, a case example, and some ideas for breaking the perfectionism-procrastination connection.
What is perfectionism? Is it stretching for excellence in areas of your life that you find purposeful? Is it pattern of nit picking, defect detecting, and controlling? Do you hold to lofty standards, demand perfection from yourself, and make your worth contingent on meeting lofty standards? Depending on your definition, it can be any one of the three. I’ll focus on demanding perfection. If you dread the thought of performing poorly, you may experience anxiety if you anticipate a substandard performance. What you fear is based on what you think of yourself if you fall below your standards. You may also feel anxious thinking that others will also judge you as a failure.
Contingent-worth anxiety thinking is a form of dichotomous thinking. You see future performances as successes or failures and measure your personal worth according to this same judgmental process. You are a winner or a loser, worthy or worthless, strong or weak, and so the list goes on. For example, you decide that a B+ grade is respectable. You expect this performance from yourself. The goal is reasonable. The expectation is not. You get a B and feel like a failure. In a perfectionist world of fixed convictions, it is not enough to do well enough; you have to do perfectly well. It’s not enough to have typical performances; they must be exceptional. When attaining perfection becomes a contingency for worth, anxiety is a common consequence.
Perfectionism is a risk factor for performance anxiety and procrastination. You expect a great performance. You have doubts whether you can achieve perfection. You have an urge to diverge and do something less threatening. Therefore, you wait until you can be perfect. This is an example of perfectionism-driven procrastination. A perfectionism-procrastination process contributes to what Rockefeller University professor Bruce McEwen describes as an allostatic load. This is a wearing and tearing of the body due to stress. If you hear your inner voice telling you that if you are not great you are a big nothing, you’ve found an anxiety belief that adds to your allostatic load. Uncoupling yourself from this thinking can help end this perfectionism-related stress.
Perfectionism is a changeable form of thinking. For example, you are always more complex than what you produce, so you can’t be either perfect or imperfect. This is the concept of the pluralistic self and here is how pluralism works. You are a person with many attributes, your self-worth does not depend on a singular life aspect. ie. grades. To combat perfectionist thinking work at accepting this pluralistic view of you, and you are on your way toward easing up on yourself and achieving more of what you desire.
For more tips on combating procrastination you might find this video helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnXseUr8sM&context=C3d2436aADOEgsToPDskKh6sw4U-Wj632iLbVbsrCH
Yesterday, we played around with the idea of personal space and having someone intentionally distancing themselves away from another person.
Today, I’d like to explore the other side by having a character who is intentionally making physical contact with another person. Whether it’s lovers cuddling after a long day, or someone holding another person for the first time, it’s up to you. Romantic or not, the most important part is to really capture the feeling and emotions and put them into words.
Have fun!
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So I sometimes wonder man
If Sherlock’s all childish and stuff in his mid-thirties
How bad was he when he was actually a child
Anon: Can you draw John and Sherlock playing dress up and then John says he looks pretty *kid-lock*
This is absolutely adorable.
As states in its introduction:
“This website presents an account of the dimensions of colour and light perception, written for painters using either traditional or digital mediums.”
I remember stumbling across this site years ago. It’s the most comprehensive on colour science I’ve ever come across. (someone show me something better!)
It was… well indeed a lot to chew on at first sight! However understanding this will help not just painting realistically, but actually get an idea on how to mix paints effectively.
It is by far NOT an easy topic to explain. David Briggs really did well on this. Add this, save this website to your hard drive, because a guide like this just doesn’t come for free often!
________________________________________________I guess he’s not Stayin’ Alive now.
I really wish I hadn’t found out about Robin Gibb’s death this way, from a post on Tumblr that makes fun of it. I actually knew them. I grew up with them. The three brothers (Barry, Robin, and Maurice) were our neighbors and I was also the teacher of one of Robin’s sons once upon a time. Such sad, sad news. I feel gutted. Poor Barry. He’s the only one left now.
Interview with Andrew Scott from today’s Observer magazine. What he DOESN’T say is that its pretty hard to recover from a bullet in the head, so Moriarty won’t be back for series 3. Instead he says that even his mother doesn’t know what happened at the end of the Reichenbach fall. Conclusion? MORIARTY IS COMING BACK! Please?
The super villain: Andrew Scott
“I have to remain schtum. Even my mother doesn’t know what happens”: says Andrew Scott on the third series of Sherlock. Photograph: Ian Derry for the Observer
Andrew Scott declares his role in BBC’s Sherlock as arch-nemesis Jim Moriarty to be an absolute blast. “Every time he appears he gets great stuff to do. You get real bang for your buck.” Though Scott first made his mark in theatre – appearing in such award-winning productions as Cockand A Girl in a Car with a Man in Londonand in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour in New York – he has two more TV dramas coming soon. First, there’s psychological drama The Fuse, starring alongside Christopher Eccleston, for the BBC – “It’s a very human story about obsession,” he says – then an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s The Scapegoat for ITV.
After that there’s the third series of Sherlock to consider – well, possibly. Any hints about the resolution of season 2’s cliffhanger, which seemed to end with the deaths of Moriarty and Holmes? “I have to remain schtum. Even my mother doesn’t know what happens.”
Favourite sitcoms? Grandma’s House and Twenty Twelve. Olivia Colman and Jessica Hynes are brilliant.
Favourite childhood show? The Muppet Show: the theme music makes me excited even now. I used to watch the drama Chocky, too. There’s something about sophisticated drama for kids – it’s just great.
Guilty pleasure? Judge Judy. It appeals to some weird side of me, I like the way she deals with idiots. I got into it when I was doing Emperor and Galilean at the NT last year. You can’t go home and watch BBC4’s The History of Desks after Ibsen.
Favourite US show? I’ve just started Mad Men. I want to be that person who watches it until 4am, but I don’t think I am.
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