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Nov. 18th, 2007 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuWithout fail, every semester, once we reach about mid-November, my motivation to do homework or put any effort whatsoever into my classes begins to suffer pretty badly. I mean, I still get almost straight As, but, you know, it just gets so hard to pick up that pencil and do that work.
I have discovered a semi-cure to my lack of homework motivation, though, and that is doing my homework with VERY LOUD, VERY UPBEAT music playing. That way, the happiness of listening to loud and happy music counteracts the doom and gloom of writing electron configurations. Today I listened to The Pillows, ZZ, Italian Pokémon themes, and E Nomine at excellent volumes, and you know what? It made doing Chemistry for about five or six hours pretty tolerable. It helped that The Pillows and ZZ have an additional effect of giving me fuzzy memories, as I've seen both bands live, and those two concerts were SO FUN and SO MEMORABLE that even the slightest memory from either concert makes me grin.
Now, however, I must NaNo (34-35 K, here I come!), and that doesn't go very well with loud music. Some Yoko Kanno (usually the Honey & Clover live action OST or Turn-A Gundam or Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex) does the trick, however. I still want to make a soundtrack for my novel. ♥ I'll probably do that once November's over. I started Magpie's character design, but something about the balance of his anatomy was off and I wasn't in that much of a drawing mood, so I abandoned the picture to work on later.
What do you guys listen to when doing activities like chores, homework, writing/drawing, etc.?
I have discovered a semi-cure to my lack of homework motivation, though, and that is doing my homework with VERY LOUD, VERY UPBEAT music playing. That way, the happiness of listening to loud and happy music counteracts the doom and gloom of writing electron configurations. Today I listened to The Pillows, ZZ, Italian Pokémon themes, and E Nomine at excellent volumes, and you know what? It made doing Chemistry for about five or six hours pretty tolerable. It helped that The Pillows and ZZ have an additional effect of giving me fuzzy memories, as I've seen both bands live, and those two concerts were SO FUN and SO MEMORABLE that even the slightest memory from either concert makes me grin.
Now, however, I must NaNo (34-35 K, here I come!), and that doesn't go very well with loud music. Some Yoko Kanno (usually the Honey & Clover live action OST or Turn-A Gundam or Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex) does the trick, however. I still want to make a soundtrack for my novel. ♥ I'll probably do that once November's over. I started Magpie's character design, but something about the balance of his anatomy was off and I wasn't in that much of a drawing mood, so I abandoned the picture to work on later.
What do you guys listen to when doing activities like chores, homework, writing/drawing, etc.?
