Battles with Executive Dysfunction
Dec. 11th, 2025 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetThe metaphorical devil on my shoulder: "You know, you don't have to do that final paper for Intro to Human Services. You've got enough extra credit to cover 30% of it, and that'll probably be enough to keep your grade in the low 'A's. And even if it's not, would a 'B' really be so bad?"
Me: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, I did not go through two semesters doing every piece of homework assigned to fail at the final stretch, I am doing this shit, even if I only manage the bare minimum!"
Metaphorical devil on my shoulder: "Okay, jeez, lighten up! It was just a suggestion!"
Me: *already ignoring the devil and refocusing on the paper*
I refuse to let this paper win 😤
Edit: Paper completed and submitted! With this, I have officially done all graded homework for my back-to-school career. I am very proud of myself.
Me: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, I did not go through two semesters doing every piece of homework assigned to fail at the final stretch, I am doing this shit, even if I only manage the bare minimum!"
Metaphorical devil on my shoulder: "Okay, jeez, lighten up! It was just a suggestion!"
Me: *already ignoring the devil and refocusing on the paper*
I refuse to let this paper win 😤
Edit: Paper completed and submitted! With this, I have officially done all graded homework for my back-to-school career. I am very proud of myself.
DON'T Play with Internet Safety
Dec. 9th, 2025 07:52 pmsoc_puppetSocial Problems final was today, and this was my project: A short, chutes-and-ladders-style game about information security online.
( Game board under here )
Only one final paper left, and it's not due until early Friday afternoon. I think I'll probably try and get it written tomorrow, when I'm not working on laundry 😂
( Game board under here )
Only one final paper left, and it's not due until early Friday afternoon. I think I'll probably try and get it written tomorrow, when I'm not working on laundry 😂
Homework Victory!!!
Dec. 7th, 2025 09:25 pmsoc_puppetInterview with a Human Services Professional paper: Completed and turned in last night!
Interview with a living ceramicist paper: Completed a few days ago
Accompanying PowerPoint presentation: Completed today! turned in with the paper
Still to do:
Tweak the game I made for Social Problems, due Tuesday (basically done, then just needs printing)
Write the accompanying paper, due Tuesday (there's a template that's basically a walkthrough, I'm not too worried)
Personal Mission Statement for Intro to Human Services, due 2pm on Friday (not started, but I have the most time left for this)
Interview with a living ceramicist paper: Completed a few days ago
Accompanying PowerPoint presentation: Completed today! turned in with the paper
Still to do:
Final Projects Progress Report
Dec. 3rd, 2025 07:43 pmsoc_puppetIntro to Human Services:
Interview with a Human Services professional: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Friday, Dec 5:Not started
Personal mission statement, due Friday, Dec 12: Not started
Social Problems:
Research a particular topic as a social problem: Done
Do a creative project based on your research: Mostly done, needs touch-ups
Write a paper about your research topic and your creative project: Not started (has a very detailed template I can probably just fill out as the paper)
Ceramics:
Interview with a living ceramicist: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Sunday, Dec 7:Mostly done Done!
PowerPoint Presentation on interviewed ceramicist, due Sunday, Dec 7: Not started
I'm going to try and get the one interview reflection done tonight, and then take a break. (I'd aim for both, but they're both minimum two pages, and I'm not sure I have enough juice for that.) I want to go ahead and make the Paid Time for Mood Themes announcement on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
moodthemeinayear, but alas, I must use my brain power for this, instead 😩
Edit: First reflection paper is done! Time to dig out my notes from the other interview and contemplate at least starting the second one.
Edit 2: Intro to HS reflection paper started, basics of getting paid time for mood theme completion posted tomoodthemeinayear 👍
Interview with a Human Services professional: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Friday, Dec 5:
Personal mission statement, due Friday, Dec 12: Not started
Social Problems:
Research a particular topic as a social problem: Done
Do a creative project based on your research: Mostly done, needs touch-ups
Write a paper about your research topic and your creative project: Not started (has a very detailed template I can probably just fill out as the paper)
Ceramics:
Interview with a living ceramicist: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Sunday, Dec 7:
PowerPoint Presentation on interviewed ceramicist, due Sunday, Dec 7: Not started
I'm going to try and get the one interview reflection done tonight, and then take a break. (I'd aim for both, but they're both minimum two pages, and I'm not sure I have enough juice for that.) I want to go ahead and make the Paid Time for Mood Themes announcement on
moodthemeinayear, but alas, I must use my brain power for this, instead 😩Edit: First reflection paper is done! Time to dig out my notes from the other interview and contemplate at least starting the second one.
Edit 2: Intro to HS reflection paper started, basics of getting paid time for mood theme completion posted to
moodthemeinayear 👍
Incoherent keysmash goes here
Nov. 30th, 2025 06:53 pmsoc_puppetAh. So. Um.
I have just been officially gifted a whoooole bunch of Dreamwidth points to reward as I see fit to participants atmoodthemeinayear, just to encourage more creativity and participation and stuff. With instructions to ask for more if I run out, and also to encourage anyone who makes a qualifying mood theme to consider submitting it to be site-supported. (And also I'm maybe being informally recruited to be the/an official Dreamwidth mood theme uploader person???)
I need. To take some time to think about how I would award these points.
(Initial idea: One month of paid time for anyone who completes just the Minimum Track, three months for anyone who completes the Medium Track, and one year for anyone who completes the Maximum Track, but like. Given that the community is supposed to be low-stress and low-pressure and allow participants to drift in and out, maybe I should instead do "One month of paid time for each Part/eighteen moods completed"? And then throw in some bonus paid time for anyone who completes the Maximum Track and/or submits a mood theme to be site-supported? Hrrrmmmmm...)
I have just been officially gifted a whoooole bunch of Dreamwidth points to reward as I see fit to participants at
moodthemeinayear, just to encourage more creativity and participation and stuff. With instructions to ask for more if I run out, and also to encourage anyone who makes a qualifying mood theme to consider submitting it to be site-supported. (And also I'm maybe being informally recruited to be the/an official Dreamwidth mood theme uploader person???)I need. To take some time to think about how I would award these points.
(Initial idea: One month of paid time for anyone who completes just the Minimum Track, three months for anyone who completes the Medium Track, and one year for anyone who completes the Maximum Track, but like. Given that the community is supposed to be low-stress and low-pressure and allow participants to drift in and out, maybe I should instead do "One month of paid time for each Part/eighteen moods completed"? And then throw in some bonus paid time for anyone who completes the Maximum Track and/or submits a mood theme to be site-supported? Hrrrmmmmm...)
Cloudy Daze Mood Theme
Nov. 30th, 2025 12:20 pmsoc_puppetDunno when I'll be able to submit it for consideration as an official mood theme, but in the mean time, here's a preview: ( 117 Cloud Moods )
Anyway, if you want to get a jump on things, here's a downloadable .zip of all of the above moods, plus a super secret alternate version of Quixotic!
Anyway, if you want to get a jump on things, here's a downloadable .zip of all of the above moods, plus a super secret alternate version of Quixotic!
Social Problems Projects
Nov. 29th, 2025 08:25 pmsoc_puppetFor our final project in Social Problems, we have to pick something we think is a social problem, find research on it, then turn our findings into a creative project with accompanying one-page paper.
Luckily, the paper has a very thorough template where pretty much all I'll need to do is write one sentence per prompt and I'll be done; I think I've done okay with picking my problem and doing my research, so now what I need to do is to turn said problem into a creative project.
The problem I've chosen is infosec/(lack of) privacy in the age of Big AI; I think I'm going to make a board game about the dangers of not having secure information?
I'm planning to go very simple: A space-by-space game board (think Candyland), and movement by D6. Part of me really, really wants to go over-the-top and come up with a token system (when you land on a marked space, you draw a card, and based on that card you either pay or receive a Privacy Token; the goal would be to make it to the end of the path with the most tokens, and if you lose all of them, you're out of the game), but that's probably too ambitious for right now.
Honestly, I'll take something closer to a Snakes and Ladders approach, where landing on a marked card has you moving forward or backwards extra spaces depending on whether the space has good or bad infosec practices. I may still need to look up some game theory to figure out how often I should place which spaces, but it's much less than if I go with the cards-and-tokens route. Probably less fun as well, but this isn't exactly the only final project I have to do this semester...
Anyway! Time to come up with a list of good and bad infosec practices and think about where they'd need to appear on a board game!
Luckily, the paper has a very thorough template where pretty much all I'll need to do is write one sentence per prompt and I'll be done; I think I've done okay with picking my problem and doing my research, so now what I need to do is to turn said problem into a creative project.
The problem I've chosen is infosec/(lack of) privacy in the age of Big AI; I think I'm going to make a board game about the dangers of not having secure information?
I'm planning to go very simple: A space-by-space game board (think Candyland), and movement by D6. Part of me really, really wants to go over-the-top and come up with a token system (when you land on a marked space, you draw a card, and based on that card you either pay or receive a Privacy Token; the goal would be to make it to the end of the path with the most tokens, and if you lose all of them, you're out of the game), but that's probably too ambitious for right now.
Honestly, I'll take something closer to a Snakes and Ladders approach, where landing on a marked card has you moving forward or backwards extra spaces depending on whether the space has good or bad infosec practices. I may still need to look up some game theory to figure out how often I should place which spaces, but it's much less than if I go with the cards-and-tokens route. Probably less fun as well, but this isn't exactly the only final project I have to do this semester...
Anyway! Time to come up with a list of good and bad infosec practices and think about where they'd need to appear on a board game!
