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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 25 of 35 02 May 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged |
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It's the middle of finals week, and other than a paper I need to finish by Friday (and am not worried about), I'm
done! So I think it's time to outline specific plans for the summer break! I've been giving it a lot of thought, and I've made a pretty solid plan. It has many parts, which I know from experience means some of them are going to get dropped, but I hold to the "shoot for the stars and you might land on the moon" philosophy. ;) So here's the plan. Every day, I will: - Add new words and sentences to anki and do my reps; - Study grammar and readings from Tobira (and after that, I'll go through my other books one by one) - Read several pages from Harry Potter (once I get ahold of it) - Add new kanji compounds to Skritter and do my reps Every week I will: - Read at least one Wikipedia page - Write at least one Japanese journal entry - Watch at least 3 hours of Japanese movies and TV I'm going to build up to this slowly, starting with all the "every day" stuff except the reading, and slowly adding things in as I get comfortable. Once I settle on good amounts of new cards and such to do every day, I'll post that here. I'm not sure yet what my limit is. I'm excited to get started! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 26 of 35 02 May 2012 at 11:53pm | IP Logged |
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OK, so I wasn't planning on posting here about my (mental and physical) health plans... but I can't find anywhere
else to put it and I feel a need to share. ;) Skip it if you're uninterested! I've made some more progress since my last health update, but it's slow going. Furthermore, I've had a lot of trouble with stress lately and I've realized something very important. This needs a little backstory. Last spring, over a period of about 3 months between quitting my job and starting my summer classes, I embarked on a self-improvement project. I have difficulty with executive functioning, which is really complicated, but ultimately the result is that I spend a lot of time sort of circling around doing things instead of actually doing them, meaning in a day I don't actually get that much done. This was a source of huge difficulty for school and for language studying, so I set out to fix it. My method was simple. First, I set a baseline: An amount of things I could reasonably manage to do in a day. Then, I added one thing. After I adjusted and got used to doing the additional task and could manage that, I added another. Slowly, I developed habits and increased the amount I could handle on any given day. It worked REALLY well. I don't think I would have survived this first year of college without it. What I have noticed recently- mostly on weekends, where the lack of structure to my time makes it obvious- is that I have regressed. I'm handling less and less during a day. I'm doing more and more aimless milling about, unable to settle down to actually accomplish anything. I've given it some thought and am fairly sure this is due to the stress of this semester. I feel like I've been working myself so hard I'm reducing my capabilities bit by bit. Fortunately for me, it never reached a point that made school impossible for me and I pulled out some pretty good grades (all A's and B's). I'm very proud of this. But now it's time to recover from that. I'm going to implement the same plan as before and aim for an even higher level of achievement this year. I really have high hopes for this process. :) So, for the time being, here are my baseline activities: - eating all meals - doing my stretches - washing up after one meal - doing one chore such as laundry or showering That's it. That's only a little better than last time I did this! :O Anyway, I'm going to add a few new tasks right away under "practice japanese". These are outlined under my language goals. I will add more gradually, along with a few other tasks: Cleaning all the dishes, doing exercises, cooking, and studying/reading about other subjects. At some point I will probably also add some crafting- sewing, primarily. As for my other health goals... they are taking a back seat for a bit since it takes a lot of effort to implement the above plan, but I will continue to work on improving my diet and exercise in particular, and sleep is still my #1 priority. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 27 of 35 10 May 2012 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
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Just popping in to say things have not been going very smoothly. The transition from school -> no school has been
really messy for me and I've been completely thrown off track. However, I think I'm starting to get it back under control. Today I'm going to try to start easing into my original plan as outlined above. I'll check in again this weekend and let everyone know how it's going. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 28 of 35 12 May 2012 at 8:27am | IP Logged |
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I have the same problem with milling about not getting anything done. And stress. Mountains of it.
Maybe I should try to make a list of things I need to do each day, but even making the list seems like too much trouble. I have made a list of important things that absolutely have to be done, like filling out important forms and stuff. I make myself work on at least one per day, according to what needs to be done first. Stress makes it very hard to get things like that done, but doing them relieves some of the stress. I've never had problems with not eating enough, more the opposite. I've read that bipolar people often don't lose their appetites when depressed, so maybe that's it. I am managing to get back into exercising. I belong to a gym, but when I was extremely depressed, I couldn't go. Now, I'm much more stable, so I try to go at lest every other day. I found out that there is usually almost no one there at around noon, so that's when I go. I still can't handle being around other people so much. I also wear earplugs. Reducing the noise helps to reduce the stress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 29 of 35 03 June 2012 at 7:06pm | IP Logged |
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I had to take a little break from Japanese for a while. I was totally burnt out. I'm now easing back into it and it's
going pretty well. :) I've been having some very severe depression since school ended, I'm not sure why, but it's made everything very difficult. I think I'm starting to get a handle on myself though. I've started Harry Potter, and while I've only made it about one page in, I'm enjoying myself. It's really tough going, and I get worn out easily, but I'm sure if I keep at it my stamina will improve- and as I eliminate more and more unknown words, it should get easier to read without stopping. I'm currently looking up pretty much everything that I don't know, but I'm sure I'll settle into some pattern eventually where I only look up the most annoying ones. I've caught up on Anki reps, and got through the new words from the next chapter of Tobira and am now into my new Harry Potter words. I have it set to add 15 new per day. I find that if they're all easy, I can do more than that, but if there's some tough ones in there I sometimes struggle. I've broken the 1000 card mark now! :D Today I hope to do more Harry Potter and a little grammar from Tobira. We'll see how it goes. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5049 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 30 of 35 25 June 2012 at 2:12pm | IP Logged |
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Are you still looking up each unknown word in Harry Potter? Do you put all of them to Anki?
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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 31 of 35 13 October 2012 at 7:14pm | IP Logged |
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Sorry for my prolonged absence. This is just a quick update to let people know what's going on.
I had a very difficult time with my job as the summer wore on, and eventually had to quit a little early. Despite that, I thought I would be alright for school. After about 3 weeks, however, it became clear that I was undergoing an especially bad period of depression and anxiety and could not handle the work load and stress load of school. So I withdrew. Part of the problem is increased life stress. My mother and father and little brother are moving to Seattle and leaving me here to fend for myself. Not that I could move with them, because I do have my fiance and friends here, and they're not about to uproot themselves! And transferring schools would be tough. My dad has already left, and my mom and brother will follow in January. This means my mom is stressed out of her mind and working nonstop to prepare the household- throwing things away, having a yard sale, cleaning up and fixing the house, trying to decide whether to sell or rent- which also puts a lot of stress on me. It's not looking like I'm going to make it back to school next semester, so right now I'm hoping on coming back next fall. That does mean I'll need a job at some point. Trying not to worry about that right now. I'm focussing on getting better using a lot of websites and stuff to help motivate and organize myself and reading self help books. My mom is trying to find a decent therapist for me but unfortunately in a small town that's hard. She's made noises about dragging me to Seattle just to find a doctor. :/ If anyone here has a SuperBetter account, that's the main site I'm using. You can PM me for my email and we can be allies. :) As for languages, I'm still playing around with Japanese, watching shows, doing anki, a little bit of reading here and there, but nothing really organized or complicated. I hope to reintroduce it more and more as I improve but we'll have to wait and see. Bye bye C1 CEFR level. :( 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 32 of 35 13 October 2012 at 8:16pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome back! I was wondering how you were doing, but I see that it hasn't been all that great.
I know about stress as you've probably noticed if you've read my log. (One month and 10 days left until I probably get fired for being autistic.) My parents are also in the process of getting ready to move, but they will be moving into a "home" as my mother is gradually becoming blind and my father is gradually developing some kind of dementia. My brother and I are struggling to do something to help the process, but it is difficult since he has to work several jobs and I live on the other side of the ocean. Anyway, if you'd ever like to talk or anything, I can give you my e-mail. We seem to have a lot in common and are going through a lot of the same difficulties with depression, anxiety, Asperger, family troubles, work troubles. At least I don't have school troubles, right? I think I'll try that Super Better thing too. I'd never heard of it before, but it looks good. I use Lumosity sometimes and I like that, but most of their games are premium so you have to pay. I bought a lifetime account some time ago, so I'm good forever, but I'm guessing that you wouldn't want to have to pay for it. I'm very fortunate in that I've got a fantastic therapist. She's in a different town, but it's only 40 minutes away by train, and I love trains :) She not only does the usual talking type of therapy, but she also goes with me to the employment agency and such and helps me with all kinds of things outside of what is perhaps the traditional role of therapist. Don't worry about having to take a break from school and stuff. Sometimes these things happen. Life has plenty of setbacks as we both well know, but there is always hope that it will be better in the future. (Can't get too much worse, right?) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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