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how much time do you waste?

Postby Bronies Are Cool » 05 May 2013 19:31

for some reason, whenever I get on a computer to do work, I just check my emails, and mlr to see what's new. I often get carried away and waste 1 - 2 hours before I begin any real work.

Is anyone else like this? how much time do you waste with ponies and other random things?
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby DJ Skrudge » 05 May 2013 19:37

In a maths tute right now, haven't done anything for 2 hours, just been exploring dubstepforum and Dogs On Acid since I sat down. I haven't been to a lecture for two weeks, haven't even started on the latest topic, and there's an assignment due on Monday...
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Alycs » 05 May 2013 19:40

I have one of the most important tests of my life tommorow and I've spent the last 2 hours playing assassins creed and making music about colored horses
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Magnitude Zero » 05 May 2013 19:40

Time management is not my forte, and I'm working on it. Clearly I'm not doing a very good job. AP exams this week, woo!
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Alycs » 05 May 2013 19:42

Same here, Magnitude! AP chem tomorrow and AP Calc on Wednesday.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 05 May 2013 19:47

Too much. I've started a day with the intent of finishing a song, and I find I waste like 6 hours on skype first.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Magnitude Zero » 05 May 2013 19:58

Alycs wrote:Same here, Magnitude! AP chem tomorrow and AP Calc on Wednesday.

AP Calc on Wednesday, AP Physics a week from tomorrow. And yet here I am. How to study habits? :(
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Bronies Are Cool » 05 May 2013 19:59

good study habit one: black mlr on your web browser
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby colortwelve » 05 May 2013 20:05

Half of my day has been spent watching K-On. That's how much time I waste :P
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby ExoBassTix » 05 May 2013 21:40

I waste my time quite much.
Like, I'm supposed to do tons of homework (which is already helping a lot), and I actually start doing it 'sort of' after two hours of half MLR half on-guard-for-parents.



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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby CDPP » 05 May 2013 21:49

I spent the last 2 hours EQing a snare.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Bronies Are Cool » 05 May 2013 22:11

so right now it is 10:11. I got on my computer at 4:00 to do homework which should have taken maybe 2 to three hours. I waste my time all the time. even now, I'm not even done yet.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Bronies Are Cool » 05 May 2013 23:50

eery wrote:Is it wasting time if I ain't got nothing to do anyways?


its called spending time.

Bronies Are Cool wrote:no, that's called spending time. and the best way to spend time is a fun way

that was my original reply to eery at 11:50 ish. I was so tired that I typed non-sense and thought it made sense
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Sugarholik » 06 May 2013 10:49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI_RlDHTBE&t=1m28s
It's horrible because I don't have school anymore. I've been struggling for a week to get up before noon. But when I try to go to bed early I look at the interwebs and suddently it's morning and everyting goes full derp.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby HMage » 06 May 2013 16:25

Quit browser, quit Skype, quit irc, leave only DAW open, then go take a walk around the block, then come back and compose down any ideas you have in mind, no matter how lame and cheesy they might seem to you.

Continue to develop this to a final track -- feel free to skip doing parts you don't want to do and use loops or parts of your previous projects -- until you have some sort of arrangement of your track.

Save this. Decide to publish or not.

Then repeat from start -- go outside, take a walk, come back and compose ideas down.

The secret why you need to do this is simple -- you get cheap practice with low expectations. If you do this every day, in a month you have experience of 30 trainwrecks that you know how to avoid.

In 5 years, your worst track done this way will be better than your best track right now.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby FlyingNinjaBannanas » 06 May 2013 16:32

CDPP wrote:I spent the last 2 hours EQing a snare.

This. Completely this. Along with gaming, I waste a majority of my free time.

Also, AP Exams next week. AP European History is going to be a fantastic exam. (Massive Sarcasm) 3 Essays and a test in 3 hours.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Sonarch » 06 May 2013 17:32

Bronies Are Cool wrote:how much time do you waste?

loads. loads upon loads. It's not even on music either. In my day-to-day free time after school, I usually end up listening to youtube subscription emails and bothering my friends on facebook. And MLR of course. God forbid I ever start using skype regularly. On weekends I tend to watch stuff, like whatever TV show im trying to get caught up on, but only rarely do I think to myself "I should work on music" because I have most of those thoughts in school when I can't do any music things. Mostly I just have to have so much free time that I get bored of the usual stupid things I do and try to music, like during the summertime. Or I need to be really into the project im working on. But right now I feel pretty motivated to start learning how to electronic music production and make some house for Nine Volt's album thing :3

sorry, I tend to ramble when I start figuring things out about myself.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby IamMadetoFall » 06 May 2013 19:07

I waste all my time (and money) on ponies.

Though, ponies is the one thing I truly find myself appreciating nowadays so I wouldn't so much call it a waste, but a socially misunderstood investment.

But, somehow I passed all of my classes this semester and managed to not get fired from my job, so I guess I'm not wasting THAT much time.



But still - I WAS late to school last week because of this:
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Bronies Are Cool » 06 May 2013 20:06

today, I wasted about two hours playing Jet Pack Joy Ride on my 60 inch tv. TWO HOURS!!!
I've never played that game for more than twenty minutes before! how the heck can I waste two hours playing such a simple game?

And now I'm wasting my time on this instead of doing homework. (seems like a theme...)
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Bronies Are Cool » 06 May 2013 21:51

i know that later this year, I will waste a good 50 hours playing kingdom hearts on ps3. oh, I have to waste time mentally preparing myself for it.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby FLAOFEI » 06 May 2013 23:26

I usually wake up an hour before I need to leav home so I don't need to stress... I allways end up wasting most of that hour internetsing on phone and listening to music, today its dubstep c:
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Makkon » 07 May 2013 00:09

Too much. And that needs to change. :(
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby S.P.P » 07 May 2013 02:20

>Have 3 weeks to do business work for college.
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>"Meh, just one more match on CoD."
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>"It's due the day after tomorrow, I might as well just chill today and smash it tomorrow; I'll be able to get it done! .."
>"It's due today, I'll get up early and spend all day on it."
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Re: how much time do you waste?

Postby Navron » 07 May 2013 08:08

Bronies Are Cool wrote:how much time do you waste?


A lot more now that I've started reading your threads.
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Re: how much time do you waste?

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