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I have 2 deadlines, both coinciding today, its the weekend (nearly), and I'm on annual leave next week (well, second week of my paternity leave), so logic would suggest i'd be hard at it, beavering away to get those reports finished dammit, so I could get out of here and start having fun!


However....


Not only am I content to piddle away time here, but I'm just hoping for e-mails, telephone calls, anything to distract me from my work. Now, I know this could mean I'm here till 8 o'clock tonight (huh, unlikely no deadlines are that important) but still it does not change my attitude.


Any thoughts?, magic concentration spells? reasons why this is good or bad?


Thanks


PS - I'll try not to be back here looking for replies in 10 minutes, but already i doubt whether I'll manage it



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Such is the magnetic draw of the board.


Try taking some air, beating up on a colleague or having a row with the boss. 


One of them might help concentrate your mind.  Then again, two of them would get you fired so you wouldn't have to finish the reports. 



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"...having a row with the boss..."

Presumably you'd have to find a little rowing boat for that. 


I would suggest drinking 16 cups of espresso and 37 mars bars.  That will kep you nice and calm and focussed.



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thanks for the suggestions I'm on my 7th cup of tea (prolly gonna miss out on the case of mars bars)


Oh, I lasted all of 24 minutes before returning - whoo-hoo!



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Well done.  It's important not to go cold turkey.  You should wean youself off slowly.  Alan Carr has witten a good book on the subject!


How's the no smoking going, by the way?



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yeah, ok thanks, on patches (which is sort of cheating) but still going, lungs clearing up nicely

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Check this book out.  Then ask Stead/Dio how effective it is.  He stopped with no problems and no patches.  I know about 6 people who have been able to give up - just like that.  No cravings, nothing.  And it only costs six quid!

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beleive it or not, I have a copy, just alwasy been to scared to open it....


will dig it out tonight and have a peek



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Do it!  You know you want to.

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So I'm reading the reviews for this book and came across the line:


"such was my inability to imagine my life without fags."


and of course had to have a good giggle... then realized I'm probably the only one finding that funny


darn me and my american slang! darn it all to heck!



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Read it...


Honestly - it works a treat.  What's to be scared of (except for the double page full frontal nude of Mo Mowlem on pages 24 and 25)?



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Now I really AM going to be sick

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Don't forget to when you're done.



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Imagine kissing me if I hadn't. 

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Imagine kissing me if I had !

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Ew... kissing



-- Edited by ddvmor at 09:59, 2005-04-08

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It's just messy.  And leads to all sorts of other problems.

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quote:



Originally posted by: ddvmor
" Presumably you'd have to find a little rowing boat for that. 

my suggestion


Will this do?



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heh... nice.  I shall organise one immediately.

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I never miss deadlines. I set them myself.  That means I can change them just before I miss them.  As a result, I never miss deadlines.


I have to finish my paper today, for example.  But if I am lucky, the deadline will move to Monday.




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I learned many ways to pass time in office from the internet...


Here are a few other examples:


clip 1


office olympics


But don't go doing this: clip2


That's just nasty!!!



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am I the only person here that doesnt have a office job?


or... does that just make me sadder :P sitting at home looking at this board while i could be doing many other useful things like er..... making eggy bread.



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Eggy bread...mmmmmmmm....


I had no breakfast.



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quote:
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"am I the only person here that doesnt have a office job?"
Well I don't really have an office job. It's a corporate job, but I work from home.

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Do you have an office at home?  If so, it's still an office job.


Lite... if it makes you feel better, just pretend you're in an office.  Use random kitchen utensils as a telephone and the microwave as a computer screen.  Your friends won't think you're mad.



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Well I'm not in a cubicle


 



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Neither am I.  But if you have a designated space in which you do your wok... I think for my purposes it constitutes an office.


So there.



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*pout*


but... but butubutbutu.... but but...


Ok fine. It's an office job.



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other people  set my deadlines - that is why I call what I do during the day 'a job' (oh, and they give me money)


surely a deadline is not a deadline if you can change it?


its more of a 'aliveline'



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Sorry.


But it's true.  Someone had to break it to ya.



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