Yeah I have no idea what this is talking about. 38 here, I’ve owned a printer for 15 years at least. We switched to a Brother laser printer a few years back and it’s the tits.

I also own a minivan, AMA.

Also because it’s nice to live somewhere clean and tidy?

It’s still Minecraft and Terraria.

Oh, also! I don’t know if you live on campus or if you’re a commuter, but if the latter: stay on campus during the day! Sometimes I had big enough schedule gaps that I could have gone home in between classes, but staying on campus instead made it a lot easier to just go to the library or whatever.

Pomodoro timers, as someone else mentioned, are great. It was a lot easier to start when I could tell myself “ok, I only have to do this for fifteen minutes” – and most of the time when that first timer went off I’d gotten into a groove and kept going anyway.

For writing assignments, I found starting with a blank page really difficult, so I’d paste in a paragraph or two of lorem ipsum or some other nonsense text and go from there. Having words on the page, even though they were irrelevant and I knew I’d have to delete them later, tricked my brain into thinking “oh, I’ve already started this; carry on, then!”

The habit of doing even just a little bit every day was more sustainable and more effective for me than infrequent big cram/study/writing sessions.

I had probably the most success with using musical cueing. Whenever I sat down to write or study, I listened to one of the same two albums on repeat. (I like classical; one was Handel’s Messiah and the other was a two-disc set of Thomas Tallis choral works.) Even now, almost a decade later, when I put either of those on it instantly snaps me into work mode. Creating that kind of association is really helpful! And having only one or two choices also meant I couldn’t distract myself by trying to figure out what to listen to: it was A or B, end of.

You might also consider how/whether you could spread out your course load. Most years in undergrad I did five classes a semester, but one or twice I did four only (plus a summer class to stay on track) and being at only 80% of a full load made a huge difference.

Good luck!

What’s your favourite dinosaur?

DS9 for sure. I like the darker feel a lot, but what really makes it stand out for me are the story arcs.

With TNG, especially in later seasons, it really started feeling like nothing had consequences beyond its own episode – even the events of “The Inner Light” are barely alluded to afterwards, which is crazy if you think about it. DS9 gives us plots and stories that stretch across multiple episodes and even multiple seasons, and it has so much more of a sense that the whole thing is going somewhere. This also allows for an incredible amount of character development over the course of the series.

Plus, Gul Dukat is easily one of the best TV villains of all time.

^…I didn’t care for Vince Fontaine though.^

Adorable! That looks like it will be perfect for springtime :)

Does this raccoon know about Conrad?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/deadraccoonto-honoured-by-toronto-with-sidewalk-vigil-1.3146036

I have no idea what the lemmy.world lemmy silver event is/was, but I love seeing all the owls in my feed… so congrats & keep it up!

An ultrasound tech once told me that I have a cute spleen.

So… the dishes were important enough for your partner to berate you about them multiple times, but not important enough for them to do the washing-up while you were out? Are they always your responsibility? Did you have a mutual conversation and understanding about chore division, or has your partner implicitly or explicitly assigned certain chores to you?

What measures of responsibility does your partner take for their own sleep? Sleep mask? Ear plugs? White noise? Weighted blanket? Other measures? Or is it all on you to accommodate them?

Would offering to sleep on the couch if you come home after they’re asleep feel like a reasonable compromise for you?

Does having a curfew set for you by your partner seem like a normal thing to you? Are you surprised that people here think it’s not normal?

Does your partner regularly use belittling or derogatory language towards you as you’ve detailed here? Does it feel to you that using such language is justified by your ADHD?

Does this situation seem like a one-off thing, or is it often a problem that you have not read your partner’s mind?

I think you’ve got some important questions to ask yourself here.

Every time I head to the second-hand store I pick up a couple new CDs and DVDs. It’s great! I’m paying max $3.99 apiece and I’ll own them forever.

It’s opportunity costs all the way down, baby!

Heat to 69 in the winter, cool to 74-76 in the summer.

What did they censor? The b word?

Specifically, as Brunt, right?

Yes, because if you don’t do it every time, eventually you’ll forget when it really matters.

It also provides clarity to other drivers. People do dumb things in cars. If someone’s in the turning lane ahead of me without their signal, there’s part of me that’s watching to see if they’re confused and about to do something foolish. Signals = clear intentions = peace of mind.

Bathing my children, obviously.