text, un: bellabelle

[doreimi]

Hey, maybe this is going to sound like kind of a silly question, but — does anybody have any advice for staying focused while studying for exams? I really don't remember it being this hard! I mean...sure, it's been a really long time since I've had to study like this, but it shouldn't be that tough to pick up again, right?

Though I guess I ought to know better than to try to study during Cordis, but...

Well, my plans to study during Sanguis kind of got...interrupted! So now here I am, going over everything, and I keep getting sidetracked by one thing or another. Half the time I want to get up and eat, and then other times I want to lie down and take a nap...ugh!

But I really need to stop letting so much time go to waste. I made a promise to myself that I was going to do this! And I've worked this hard already for months and months, I can't trip at the finish line now!

Jeez, maybe I ought to borrow some catnip from the cafe and sprinkle it on my books, I bet I'd pay attention to them then.

(This is actually my first time being a cat for Cordis — I guess you could say it's pretty im-purr-essive that it hasn't happened before now! Especially what with owning a cat cafe and all. I just wish it weren't so distracting!)

Comments

un: tigerpoet

[tigerpoet]

As a teacher and a Cordis, I feel like I should have some advice for this, but all I can really say is to have a ready supply of snacks with you as you study so that you don't have to interrupt your work when hunger strikes.

[doreimi]

I tried for a while to bribe myself! You know — read a page, eat a snack, that kind of thing. But I really wish I could just sit and read without having to stop so much!

[tigerpoet]

I don't think that's possible under Cordis. But it could always be worse? You could have Iris.

[doreimi]

Is Iris a lot worse? I mean, I've heard stories, but...

[tigerpoet]

From dealing with my friends who are Iris, I feel confident in saying you wouldn't be getting any more done than you are now, at least.

text | un: fantasma

[teaserving]

hey so
you ok now?

[doreimi]

Full height, full possession of my senses, thank goodness. I'm back to trying to study for entrance exams.

Um...thanks. For, uh, for taking care of me the way you did, with no warning or anything.

[teaserving]

it's ok
you were a really cute kid just like i thought you'd be

so
what were you trying to achieve with that drink anyway?

[doreimi]

...Okay, don't laugh, but...

...

I kind of...grabbed the wrong one. I didn't mean to drink it, I was up early to study and I wanted something with some pep and...I guess I just wasn't really paying close enough attention.

Embarrassing, right?

text | un: kishibe

[penpoint]

[ he's still irritable but -- ]

When are your exams? I don't even try to work during Cordis because it's near impossible.

Or just do it in small bursts. Aim for ten minutes or so at a time then do something else.

The Birdbox helps.

[doreimi]

I was planning to try to take them at the end of the month, if I was ready. I mean, I guess I could always put them off, but...

I dunno, it just feels like, I've waited this long, I don't want to wait any longer!

[penpoint]

You'll be ready.

I --

Will bring you food, okay. Any special requests? This is your chance to make them.

[doreimi]

Hmmm. Anything I want?

un: producer

[axemeaquestion]

i'm cordis too, i know EXACTLY what you mean.

i had study snacks sometimes when i was in college. kinda helped that we had a cafe in the library. what if you ate AND studied?

side note: does catnip seriously work on you like that? bc this is my second cordis, and i guess the powers that be decided i'm an owl now? now you got me wondering i'm gonna wanna
idk eat a bug or something

[doreimi]

Mm, I actually don't know about the catnip...mostly that was just a joke made out of frustration, haha! But I know that Sanguises who end up doglike will wag their tails and stuff when they're happy, so I guess it's not impossible for there to be that kind of influence.

[axemeaquestion]

oh

pffff sorry

i'm so used to strange shit happening here that i didnt realize you were kidding

you make a good point though, my neck actually....did the thing on my first cordis. the thing that owls do.

[doreimi]

That owls...you mean it turned all the way around??

text, un: hexadin

[halforc]

You've become a cat???

[doreimi]

Yup! Well, sort of. I have some cat...appendages, I guess you'd call them! Ears and stuff. I'm not completely a cat, though!

It's just a little strange because normally for Cordis I wind up being something else. Most of the time it's a butterfly, and then I have wings that come out of my back. So cat is kind of a novel change, is all!

[halforc]

At least you've still got your hands and all the other important parts. During Sanguis I look like a wolf that lives underwater, all that fur on my ears gets insanely itchy.

What's your tail like? I've never grown one during my moon. Does it throw you off-balance?

[doreimi]

Actually...I mean, aside from making it kind of hard to sit, it's pretty great for balance! It does that cat thing where it moves around to help keep me steady, even if I'm not thinking about it.

Oooh, you're a Sanguis, huh? You're not one of those Sanguises who goes around smelling people without asking, are you?

text | j.valentine

[torsion]

I used to listen to soft piano music when I would study back in high school.

Taking breaks can help, but I was always the type to want to do everything and not get up.

Maybe go for a run or jog, do some sort of physical activity? Get your heart rate up and endorphins going.

[doreimi]

Hmm, maybe some music would help, yeah. I mean, at this point I'll try anything.

I was going to go study at the cafe but what with me being a cat and all, I figured I didn't really want to listen to all the jokes.

[torsion]

You'd think the jokes might get old by now, what with folk like us all over. But I'm not surprised.

I suppose who knows what might work? Have you tried meditation? I'm not really into it, but it can help me wind-down sometimes.

[doreimi]

Meditation? Like folding my legs and doing deep breathing or something like that?