For the people stuck at home for the lockdown, what are you doing?

[Chenbi]

Welp online classes are starting again in a few days it was fun while the laziness lasted

[wantingtoknow]

Think we're going to go back to office soon. Been nice working from home while it lasted

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I entered a new job during the pandemic so I've always worked from home. Have never seen any of my colleagues face to face so it'll be interesting to actually go to the office! I've just been binging Netflix lately to get over this period.

[Unown]

I work from home in general, way before the pandemic. So procrastination is a huge problem. Recently I tried some apps that help with time management and I can say I'm very satisfied. I combine the Pomodoro app on my phone to divide my work time on smaller portions (25 mins for example) and set up breaks (5 - 15 mins) between them. I was doing that before, by writing down on paper, but it's fancier on the app and also you gain sunlight points that go towards a tree and at the end, if I'm not mistaken, they actually plant a real tree. The same tree principle goes with the Forest app, but this is more to prevent you from getting distracted. I've installed it on my laptop as I don't have games on my phone so I don't get distracted with it but I do with Neopets, Facebook and the likes. So you add the sites in a blacklist and run the extension for your browser, you set a period - 10 to 120 min and during this time if you try to log into a site from the blacklist, its blackened and you can't do anything unless you speicifically click on "abandon" but the your tree dies It seemed very naif in the beginning but I found out that it actually works for me. I'm sure there's plenty other similar apps if you don't like these particular ones so you can research and give it a try.

Oh thank you so much!!

This seems like great advice. I'll give that a shot on Monday If not I'll check for others too!!

[Reeses]

I've been working from home, every weekday except for 2 weeks.

I work as a paralegal, and although our court system is crippled, there have been a skeleton crew at the courts working, so thankfully I haven't been laid off or furloughed. My remote server connection is absolutely horrendous, with my desktop constantly freezing and losing connection. My job did order a mandatory 2 week off period, but I was paid for the 2 weeks. During those 2 weeks, I cleaned my apartment top to bottom and watched all of Binging with Babish. I tried to get my Warlock to 60 in World of Warcraft but only got up to 39. I know I know, I suck.

I'm fortunate that my boyfriend moved in with me the day before my state (Michigan) went into lockdown. He moved here from Utah. I'm grateful because then it would just be me and my two cats in here, and I wouldn't have anyone human to talk to!

[user123]

I've found webcams. Been watching Edinburgh Zoo - (you need an account to see links). Managed to catch feeding time. When the zoo is open the penguins go for walk before being fed. Google gives lots of webcams. RZSS (Royal Zoological Society of Scotland) have more animals at Kincraig. I remember seeing a polar bear there.

[katongpool]

I work from home in general, way before the pandemic. So procrastination is a huge problem. Recently I tried some apps that help with time management and I can say I'm very satisfied. I combine the Pomodoro app on my phone to divide my work time on smaller portions (25 mins for example) and set up breaks (5 - 15 mins) between them. I was doing that before, by writing down on paper, but it's fancier on the app and also you gain sunlight points that go towards a tree and at the end, if I'm not mistaken, they actually plant a real tree. The same tree principle goes with the Forest app, but this is more to prevent you from getting distracted. I've installed it on my laptop as I don't have games on my phone so I don't get distracted with it but I do with Neopets, Facebook and the likes. So you add the sites in a blacklist and run the extension for your browser, you set a period - 10 to 120 min and during this time if you try to log into a site from the blacklist, its blackened and you can't do anything unless you speicifically click on "abandon" but the your tree dies It seemed very naif in the beginning but I found out that it actually works for me. I'm sure there's plenty other similar apps if you don't like these particular ones so you can research and give it a try.

This sounds so cool! I'm using a similar chrome extension called Self Control (to replace my lack of actual human self-control) and it basically does the same thing except there is no way to disable it after you set the time limit. I find myself getting more distracted by my colleagues pinging me for every small task and just generally having to answer more work messages, emails, questions from my inbox, Slack, FB/Instagram messages etc...

[Achyfi]

Basically panicking.

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Otherwise getting a lot of apartment cleaning done and trying to learn to watercolor.

[Dontlookme]

Basically panicking [2] hahaha

Trying to study Java and Android, while getting addicted again to neopets...

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This sounds so cool! I'm using a similar chrome extension called Self Control (to replace my lack of actual human self-control) and it basically does the same thing except there is no way to disable it after you set the time limit. I find myself getting more distracted by my colleagues pinging me for every small task and just generally having to answer more work messages, emails, questions from my inbox, Slack, FB/Instagram messages etc...

Ah, I also swear by Self Control. I have much less social media presence, however, and most of the time I end up blocking Wikipedia lest I trawl through links that lead to links that lead to links...

Also, consider me basically panicking [3] and hikikomori [2].

[Seame]

Mostly reading, cooking all kinds of stuff, watching shows and cartoons and playing games on my switch.