jumpingjacktrash: umaruspeaks: cleaning with ADHD is a

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umaruspeaks:

cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and

i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.

have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.

how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.

go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.

nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.

not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.

this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.

plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. :D
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Tor.com’s eBook of the Month Club

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Tor.com’s eBook of the Month Club:

marthawells:

The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red is the free ebook for Tor.com’s eBook of the Month Club.

Available from April 6th to April 9th. Download before 11:59 PM ET April 9th, 2018 For US and Canada only.
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yeah i had a bunch of things i was gonna do first thing this morning at workbut instead i reread a..

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yeah i had a bunch of things i was gonna do first thing this morning at work

but instead i reread a 50,000-word fic I wrote two years ago and never posted anywhere

and it’s fine but it gets to the point where the plot should come together and there’s just nothing, it ends, so. depressing.

some of the lead-up is great, though, i like the pacing. but there’s. there’s no structure.

sighhhhhhhh.
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victoriousvocabulary: “Because when I read, I

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victoriousvocabulary:

“Because when I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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Amazon.com: Thornfruit (The Gardener's Hand Book 1)

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Amazon.com: Thornfruit (The Gardener's Hand Book 1):
clotpoleofthelord:

SO one of my favorite books of this year so far just went on sale for FREE on Amazon. If you like superb worldbuilding and A++ queer ladies, go grab Thornfruit while it’s free!

OK I read this today and uh

oh my god the sweet baby lesbians. 

One of them literally can’t actually touch other people so this is about as racy as it gets so far but it’s. Well, it’s adorable. And action-filled. I’m not completely in love with it yet but I may well buy the rest of the series, because it is– I mean, it’s a tidally-locked planet, which is fascinating, and there’s some cool worldbuilding. There are some attempts at plot twists that fell sorta flat for me– like, a lengthy first-person section where I figured out who it was supposed to be and then at the end there was a dramatic reveal of who the narrator was and I was like oh, you were supposed to be surprised, I think, oh. 

But! A bunch of it is actually really well-done with inventive world-building and such, and the characters are pretty great, and like I have any leg to stand on about Obvious Plot McGuffin Thingies, Lord– and there’s a Church of Doubt whose priests’ motto is a kind of muttered “but what do I know” that’s kind of great. So, worth a read; it’s a frolic and how can you resist Sweet Baby Lesbians? 
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