From: Kim teu (kim.teu@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2008 - 00:49:04 ARST
I took a week off to a meditation retreat to release the pressure and clear
up my mind so that my brain can absorb more. It worked. I passed the first
trial. Here's (dhamma.org) I went.
On 3/2/08, keith tokash <ktokash@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Abby,
>
> I hate to say this, but I'm really burning out here and would like to
> compare
> notes a little. I wake up at 5.30am each weekday, but I'm a slow riser so
> I
> may not quite make it out of bed right away. Average time to start lab
> work =
> 7am. I go until 9-9.15am, then head to work. I get home about 6-7pm (3
> mile
> commute) and get about 1.5 hours of lab time in. On weekends I almost
> never
> go anywhere, just alternate between lab work and taking Netflix + food
> breaks.
>
> I've been doing this for about 3 months now, with another 6 months of
> various
> other schedules before that, and I'm starting to have more and more
> trouble
> focusing, and I'm losing my patience more as well. Of course I'm becoming
> more and more fun for my wife to deal with on the side.
>
> Does anyone have any type of advice or schedule that worked for them? I
> don't
> suppose it helps that I'm normally really busy at work too, so I can't
> study
> there, or take time to play video games like some sysadmin types seem to
> have
> time for. At this point I'm really having trouble just finishing the last
> two
> tasks in my current lab on account of wanting to take a nosedive off my
> balcony. I'm thinking a week off might do wonders, as I have a bootcamp
> scheduled for March 17th, but I hate to lose the time (May 20th lab date).
>
> With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and
> with
> science.
> --Carl Sagan
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