Word: relaxants
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...someone who’s actually working, you geeky, selfish bastard. Productive – Cleaning your room. It is the end of the year, and you’re going to have to do it anyway. If you start now, after finals are over you can just relax until it’s time to leave. Ambiguously productive – Cleaning your inbox. There really is no good reason why this demands your immediate attention, unless you’re one of those sad souls who is consistently over quota. If that’s you, start deleting...
...read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much?Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud...
What do you do to relax? Every night before I go to sleep, I read a novel for at least an hour. This is how I try to forget the aggressive work of the day. Right now I am reading The Zahir by Paulo Coelho. I like the way Coelho looks at world issues...
...today's stiff easterly, he'll move his horizontal sight three-60ths of a degree to the left. Shooting is all about precision, he says. And consistency. And tenacity, says David, an engineer who won a U.S. sniper-rifle championship last year. "Don't let anything faze you. Breathe. Relax. If you do a bad shot, forget it. Put everything you've got into the next one." The reward of total concentration: total relaxation. Even when I score poorly, shooting makes me forget everything else in the world...
...writing from my own life or my friends lives or my thoughts about the world, so I think it takes me longer to digest those thoughts than it did family stuff which was so ingrained in me.”But fans can relax: Durang has hardly exorcised all of his demons. He’s just learned how to keep them under control.“[In college], I had a bad message in my head that nothing ever works out,” he says. “I still have that message. Although now that...