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I appear to have lost my hat and scarf. If anyone would like to find them, I would like them back.

My will to attend 9am maths lectures was found seriously wanting at 7am this morning.

My room steadily becomes more and more of a complete tip, and I'm sure I'm going to start losing notes soon. Not that I've been doing any work to need them.

I still haven't dealt with the book thing for school.

I feel I should have got back into some kind of routine by now, but instead I'm just fighting fires, and not very successfully.

Of course, the reason I feel like this is that this is my 'Week Of Irrational Bad Moods', so feel free not to take too much notice.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Ash - Girl From Mars

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Stop spodding, take an hour and TIDY THE ROOM. You can do this, you have complete controll over it, there is no 'right way' there are no hard decisions. If you don't know where you want to put something, stuff it in a cupboard. Put papers in folders or at least in sensible piles, clothes and shoes in the wardrobe/drawers as apropriate, hang up towels etc by sink... make the bed.

Easy. Only takes an hour or so and you will feel hugely better for having done it. Room tidying is my favourite displacement activity, and it is evenmore satisfying when the place is a tip to start with.

Then make a list of all the things you are supposed to go to on a big grid (day/time axes), put in lectures, supervisions and all regularly sceduled societies (put all of the ones you like on, then you can pick which one to go to if there is a clash). Now look at the gaps. These are gaps for working/spodding/eating/annoying random people in. It might be a good idea to decide what they are for (when/where you intend to eat, how much time you should spend working... remember, if you've done the work in less time you can allways decide to spod some). Don't try to work too late or too early unless you think that 1)you can and 2)you won't find yourself watching anime/at a party/being dragged somewhere else/asleep at those times. Doing the work when it's set is a good idea though often not possible. Never do it 2 hours before it's due in, if you haven't covered the material by the day before then your supervisor should be informed of this...

Pick a book you like. The Player's Handbook is a GoodChoice. If not, well, get a textbook. RH&B is a favourite. Or you could get something that someone else desperately wants and have them pay you. The book should either be usefull or silly, both are good options.

9am lectures are copable with. Not taking 2 hours to get to them would help... not going to bed so late helps too. Once you persuade yourself to get out of bed and do Stuff (tm) then you will find yourself much more awake for the rest of the day (and yes, I attended mine this morning).

1st week isn't even over yet... who has a routine?

Irrational Bad Moods happen. Learning to cope with them is allso an important thing to do, but I haven't found any strategies that work yet.

Now go and tidy!

Irrational Bad Moods happen. Learning to cope with them is allso an important thing to do, but I haven't found any strategies that work yet.

Doing lots of exercise seems to help them go away. Failing that, it leaves you too worn out to actually *do* anything nasty.

Take the anger out on something else... yeah, that's been known to work.

Unfortunately my Irrational Bad Moods at the moment seem to generally end up with me in a heap crying. I hate it when I do that!

Actually, it's not bad for getting rid of general weepiness, either. Angst hates pain.

Excuse this comment from a passerby (also a NaNoWriYe aspirant): I had a completely untidy room for five years at Cambridge and yet scraped a 2.1 and an M Phil. So failing to tidy up isn't the end of the world.

But I really wish I had acquired the knack then, rather than go through more than ten years of subsequent life before beginning to conquer the chaos (which I like to think I am beginning to do now).

To adapt Naath's advice a little: I'd say, see what you can do in just one hour, and promise yourself a reward (coffee, pint, whatever) at the end of it.

Hope that (unsought) is helpful.

Advice from friendly passers-by is always appreciated.

Should I find myself with an hour during which I am not either dead on my feet or busy, I'll probably take the advice. Until then, I seem to still be fighting fires. Haven't lost anything vital yet, though.