Stuff I've been doing lately

I’ve been super-productive lately! (For the most part, anyway. I’ll get to the exception later.) I’ve been experimenting with Challenge Accepted. It’s a free, web-based todo list that gives you roleplaying game-style experience points for real life tasks: household chores, schoolwork, socializing, etc. Tasks can be anything you think of, which means you have complete control over what they are and how much XP each is worth. I really love this feature—if I’m especially unmotivated to, say, vacuum one day, I can put “vacuum” on Hard and give myself more points.

Thanks to this system, I’ve done a lot of things over the past couple of weeks. Things like:

• regular vacuuming and Swiffering/mopping the house
• regular making of the bed
• regular doing of laundry
• walking my dog (I can get lost doing it, so my mom taught me a couple of specific routes)
• dusting and organizing stuff
• cleaning the bathroom
• getting all the trophies in Hyperdimension Neptunia in preparation for Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory (Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 is the only game I’ve ever Platinumed–I have a repuation to uphold.)
• going to church on Easter (there’s a church straight down from our condo)
• reading a hella lot of books[1]
• learning some more coding (Not very much coding. HTML/CSS theme design might be in my zone of proximal development).

So basically, I’ve been doing everything but the game review I’m supposed to write. That’s not quite true–I’m trying out the Pomodoro Technique and am at least working on it in 25-minute bursts, but my writing is terrible and awkward lately.

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1. Like Ben H. Winters’s Bedbugs! I want to write about it, but alas (cf. my writing is terrible and awkward lately).  ↩