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Post by conceptuallycurious on Feb 3, 2016 8:38:55 GMT
Really frustrated. I had a productive day (for me) on Monday, but didn't manage to get to my lecture or to roller derby training yesterday. (Though I did manage to drop off some forms.)
I was too tired for my lecture and messed up my timing to that I missed by bus for roller derby (this happens all the time). Couldn't focus at all in the evening.
I think I went to less than half of my lectures last semester, so I was hoping to improve.
I was too disorganised to add an independent module to my schedule last semester. Barely made it through with 3 modules. So this semester I have to do 5!
The other problem is the timing of my lecturer. I'm not sure if it's just my Quetiapine or if I need extra sleep ordinarily but 8 hours is not enough for me.
I've got three morning lecturers this semester and no options to swap them for later.
Only just wrenched myself out of bed and getting dressed took ages so I missed my bus again this morning.
I think the "easiest" thing to do would be go to bed earlier. But it's hard for me to organise getting to bed on time.
On top of my own difficulties is my wife who has an usually short need of sleep. She's constantly stalling the time we got to bed.
We live in a studio apartment so unless she sits in the bathroom (she won't) there's nowhere for her to go and I find it difficult to sleep when there are any distractions. (Even the printer flashing is too much.)
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Post by conceptuallycurious on Feb 3, 2016 8:56:27 GMT
I also have group work in two of my modules. And the other two have study groups. I'm terrible with "read this paper in time for a discussion". Plus people don't seem to like working with me. Last semester in my group discussion module people kept moving away from me to a different table. I hate the group work because it makes me embarrassed to use either my chew or my tangle which means I can't concentrate so much.
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Post by conceptuallycurious on Feb 3, 2016 9:02:38 GMT
And to top it off, my university is moving departments around to "make use" of their new multi-million pound building.
Since they're not done, it's not possible to continuously book rooms. So our lecture rooms change every week.
I don't cope with lots of change, struggle to find my way to new rooms and the "hours" for visiting lecturers to speak to them have been reduced because they've moved the staff from individual offices to large multiple person offices.
So now there has to be a bookable room for this too.
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Post by conceptuallycurious on Feb 3, 2016 9:26:28 GMT
After all that, I've arrived. 25 minutes late. My note taker is here and one other person.
Lights are out. No sign of anyone. No email to say where the lecture might be. In the room in my timetable.
Edit: In the lecture schedule which is a document on the moodle page (ie, you have to go looking for it) there is an asterisked point for "all modules start at 9am" which says this week it starts at 10am.
So cross.
I'd checked the section for this week, where it doesn't say a thing about it.
Oh, it seems it was embedded into an email a week ago. The email, again, states first that lectures are 9-12 and then several paragraphs later mentions that this week is at 10am.
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Post by marionk on Mar 9, 2016 16:12:20 GMT
Why are you taking quetiapine? I took it for years because it was the only thing that seemed to do any good, without, it seemed at the time, any nasty side effects.
It seemed to help me sleep but it didn't help me be any more awake in the daytime. So pretty useless really.
It's only with hindsight, that I realise all it did was kill the two decent things about ADHD.
Namely, my ability to hyperfocus, and make connections (think).
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Post by anopheles on Mar 24, 2016 11:27:13 GMT
You don't say why bed is difficult? Struggling to get off the pc or tv? for the pc you can get programs design to turn off incoming data at x time. If tv, you can get 'anti burglary' timers on the plug socket. Its designed to turn lights on while on holiday, but it can be used for any appliance.
Also, try to remember the habit of putting alarms on you smart phone, plus self tricks like noting the seminar half an hour before it really is (giving your note taker a Dictaphone too?)
Apologies I you're tried these.
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