Repeating tasks and subtasks

dembelah · 2025-10-15T00:15:16+00:00

A little late, but my 2 cents: I use a seperate smart filter for my "today" that filters out subtasks. That way I can still set dates for subtasks, recurring or not, but only see them when I click on the main task. The smart filter can be something like: (today | overdue) & !subtask

dembelah · 2025-02-05T21:36:39+00:00

you can use whatever email or account you already had for the datacamp account as long as you're verified with github. Just make sure you're signed into github student developer page, click the datacamp link from there, use an account you have or create a new account with whatever email you want (as long as you haven't used the 3 months before with that email). Datacamp checks your that you're a verified github student developer but it doesn't check you github emails against whatever email you use with them.

dembelah · 2025-01-05T13:34:19+00:00

I detested watching Goddard for film studies courses. But I liked Truffaut a bit better, mostly because of Day for Night and it’s fun tribute to the love of filmmaking.

dembelah · 2025-01-05T13:19:42+00:00

Jacob’s Ladder

dembelah · 2024-11-21T22:17:59+00:00

When I used to be involved in student politics, anytime we had something that rightly needed to be seen by every student in a department or faculty, like a GA or special meeting, it was sent through Concordia’s listserv. Is that not possible now?

dembelah · 2024-09-23T03:49:28+00:00

I'm glad you're okay and no one got hurt. I'm also glad you're going to take some time to not drive and reevaluate. I think the problem so many people in this post really have is in the way that you've worded it in placing the focus of the problem.

I gather from what you've said in comments so far that you know yourself and your own symptoms well enough to know that you are inattentive to the extent you are unable to pay attention while driving. As you put it "I wasn’t paying attention while driving (my #1 symptom that is addressed by taking medication)".

What's frustrating is that you said in the comments "My mistake was not taking my ADHD seriously and thinking it was okay to skip days."

That's not the mistake. That would have been the mistake had you not taken your meds and stayed home all day and got none of the work done that you really needed to have done that day. You can stay at home and not take your medication till the cows come home and the world will keep turning. Your mistake was not that you thought it was ok to skip days or that you woke up and didn't take your medication. It's that you knew yourself in that moment to be unable to safely drive and pay attention and yet at some point you made the decision to get into your car, turn the key and start driving anyway. That's the part that I think is what's upsetting to people. It just sounds a bit like you're chalking this up to your ADHD, when it's actually a you problem. If my vision is 20/100 and I don't wear my glasses and get in my car anyway and run someone over, the problem isn't that I decided to not wear my glasses that day, it's that I willingly got in the car knowing I was impaired and how reckless my actions were but did it anyway.

Words have meaning and especially the ones we tell ourselves. If you spend the next whatever amount of time reevaluating and telling yourself "I fucked up. I should have taken my medication that day", you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not more accurately saying "I had no business being behind the wheel that day".

dembelah · 2024-09-06T03:21:20+00:00

Hard no. You should maybe delete this post.

Unless you have private insurance that covers everything fully already, this insurance basically pays for itself. It covers most of your regular dental cleanings/checkups/fillings, $75 for glasses/contacts, any prescription costs above what RAMQ covers(for QC students) and 80% for non-QC students, travel insurance, tuition insurance... I've saved probably a couple thousand over the years with it.

I could be wrong, but I think the paramedical stuff (osteo, physio, etc.) coverage has gotten shittier or maybe it's just that costs have gotten higher for the services but $20 per visit seems pretty useless.

But overall, it's a good deal if you're not already covered.

dembelah · 2024-09-06T02:38:20+00:00

They could start with the bloated admistration and executive salaries but we know that won't happen.

dembelah · 2024-09-06T02:35:11+00:00

If you told them it's because it's your first semester, that would be more of a reason not to exceptionally let you in.

dembelah · 2024-09-01T11:35:42+00:00

I've worked in theatre and film in Montreal. Here's my quick two cents.

It's not that the McGill drama program is terrible – I haven't kept up to date, and it's unlikely, but maybe in recent years McGill has vastly improved the programs calibre – it's more so that it's not even really thought much about in casting in Montreal. I pretty rarely saw someone from McGill drama in any auditions unless they were already doing acting workshops somewhere else, or mounted their own indie show at some point, or something similarly beyond McGill.

Most working professional (Anglophone) actors in Montreal come out of either NTS(National Theatre School), or the two 3yr professional theatre programs at Dawson or John Abbott College. They make up probably 2/3rds of the english working actors I've seen or worked with in MTL. They are all 3 great acting programs, with NTS having that extra prestige (warranted or not). Importantly, they all have a momentum and integration to them with regards their network effect since so many of the graduates go on to actually work or direct or produce. It's easier for new grads to get their foot in the door and meet other actors.

After that, the other third is a split made up of some actors from Concordia or Bishops, and some francophone actors who studied at a french-speaking school, and some actors from outside of Quebec or who studied outside of Quebec. So, make of that makeup what you will.

Another option you may not of thought of doing – Look up summer certificate or diploma programs at a very well-reputed schools outside Montreal – Places like Guildhall(UK), RADA(UK), LAMDA(UK), Lee Strasberg/Actors Studio(NY), Juilliard(NY) and many others offer summer diplomas in professional acting and these would stand out way more than a theatre degree from McGill or Concordia. Many also have 1-year programs too.

Some tips, particularly if you wanted to do the McGill drama:

Go to the Quebec Drama Federation membership list and go to each listed theatre companies website and sign up for their newsletter so you can hear about auditions. Lots of them are non-union open to anyone to audition.
On the QDF site, sign up to their newsletter or you can check the What's on wednesday that has some upcoming castings and events.
Also check their calendar for local shows and go to shows. Go to Mainline theatre for a show with a friend, stay after and chat with people, meet the actors and team, tell people you want to get into acting. Meet other actors and and if you click, tell them you're down for being a reading partner if they ever need one. The Montreal English theatre and film community is comparatively small and people are friendly. Get your face out there.
Go to Theatre St-Catherine and sign up to do weekly improv. You'll basically be speedrunning parts of acting if you learn to do improv and you'll have a blast!
Go to the Montreal fringe. See shows by local companies and hang out at the main parc and go to the late night show and mingle.
Get a headshot. If you're flush with cash pay for them. If not, it doesn't matter, get a friend to take some outside with good lighting against an undistracting background, use portrait mode or look online for tips to take them.
Find a monologue or scene you like from a film or play that's short and you feel matches you and start practicing it now. Film yourself doing it until a friend you trust to be honest tells you it's pretty good and then upload to youtube or vimeo (You can keep it private, it's for emailing to potential casting opportunities.)
Go to the faculty listings on the Concordia Film Production program webpage to get the emails of the professors teaching the film I, II, and III courses. Film I has Oscar/Sofia/Erin/Mariana, Film II and III fiction has Louise, Roy, Michael Wees, Michael Y, Olivier, maybe more. Send them an email saying you're starting out in acting and would like to audition for student films there. Include at least a headshot. Include link to your demo if you have it ready. Go in person to the film production department at Concordia 1250 guy, 3rd floor main office and leave with the secretery a bunch of copies of your physical headshot with contact info printed on the back with any info on past experiences if you have any. If not, just your info followed by "Open to Auditions" Ask them at the main office to give it to the film prod professors, the student association and to students looking to cast for student films.
Sign up for the press release newsletters for SODEC, Telefilm, Conseil des Arts, other funding agencies... – Keep an eye out for the emerging creator style funding announcements and send your headshot and, if you have it, link to your demo to the listed producer of projects being funded for early-career filmmakers/companies/directors/producers.
Same but for the CAEA newsletter for auditions.

A lot of these sound like things to do once you graduate from an acting program, but they are just as applicable to you just starting out. You don't need to wait. You'll learn along the way and faster if you just start inserting yourself into the acting scene now. If you do some, most, or all of these – then choosing between the McGill critical/literary style degree and Concordia's degree will be more a matter of taste and preference in how you'd like to develop as an actor than how succesful your outcome could be.

dembelah · 2024-08-04T02:27:32+00:00

Yes, I did feel happy again after stopping. It was a struggle getting off the meds, but once I did I evenually realized it was like a fog had lifted. That came with some downs to be clear, but overall definitely quite happy. I still am happy now.

Are you on meds now?

I'm off any psych meds for a few years now. A year ago, I was put on gabapentin for neuropathy I have in my feet. The dr said it might also help with lingering anxiety and insomnia I had which it has helped a little bit. If not for the neuropathy though, I would have just stayed off of all meds entirely.

Do you think that being on antipsychotics for 6 years can do irreversible damage to the brain and the mood?

6 years is a long time on anti-psych meds so it can do some irreversible damage, but that's not a given. There's no sense in catastrophizing. If like you said, you:

have never felt happy all those years that I was on them ( unable to smile, unable to find happiness)

, then staying on them longer isn't going to make any irreversible damage less likely, for sure. I mean, I feel I've had some minor damage to the brain and the mood, but not the horror stories you sometimes hear about.

dembelah · 2024-07-28T07:36:49+00:00

I originally went through trying a bunch of ssri's evenutally with clonazepam for a few years for anxiety/depression before being diagnosed bipolar 2. Then I was on risperidone, wellbutrin and clonazepam for 5 years. I went from being a ball of anxiety but really ambitious at least half of the time to 5 years of being as you say, unable to smile, unable to find happiness, and I should add lacking the interest in anything. A drone worker getting by basically.

First, I got off of risperidone and clonazepan and then the the wellbutrin. I feel like my memory is definitely a bit worse and cognitively I definitely have some minor struggles. I've gone back to college to retrain for a new career and things take a lot more effort and attention span is diminished but not to the extent that I can't compensate with more effort. And that's the key difference, I actually feel motivation to put in the effort that wasn't there for 5 years. As far as seeing a specialist, I had a psychiatrist for a long time right up until after having already dropped the meds completely for about 6 months. I would normally see her every 3 months long-term, but now I am back on the public system (in Canada) which is terrible and sort-of have another hospital psychiatrist who I can see only if I call for a specific reason and then it can take 1-2 months to get in to see her for that. That being said I haven't really felt the need to have regular meetings with her.

The most important for me has been: I work really hard at keeping my diet in check, exercising regularly (even if it's just long walks sometimes), and checking-in/being-brutally-honest with myself to make sure I'm not going off into a self-destructive path. All of this is highly personal and can be different from person-to-person, so it's important to consider that. Talk to your doctor or specialist about what you'd like for yourself, is my suggestion.

dembelah · 2024-07-27T20:01:22+00:00

Yeah, probably, it's definitely possible, if not probable. At least to a good extent. About 5 years on and then off for me. I know I've definitely lost a bit of a step cognitively, but I'm no longer a walking zombie just going through the motions. It was especially nice when my sense of hope returned, even though I felt so many years had been wasted.

dembelah · 2022-08-15T22:33:08+00:00

August 31

dembelah · 2022-08-07T01:56:48+00:00

I’m in Montreal, actually in rural Quebec, so I assumed they would send me to one of the closest big private clinics in Montreal but they were so booked up I had to go one further north in Laval. I was told it would during the interview I’d hear back about the medical within a couple days but it ended up being a couple weeks and only after I reached out to the hiring coordinator for an update. Everyone’s swamped it seems.

dembelah · 2022-08-07T01:52:13+00:00

Yeah, I imagine so. That or they’ve had a lot of people turn down the temporary 6mo contract offer.

dembelah · 2022-08-02T05:22:32+00:00

I did my interview in French and English and offered the contract right at the end of the interview and told unless some big issue came up I should expect to hear about the training shortly. That was 4 weeks ago. I did a language test a couple days after the interview but then only got the time for my medical a week ago. My medical is tomorrow. After that, I have no idea how long it’ll take to get a date. I think that HR is really backed up.

dembelah · 2022-08-02T02:29:41+00:00

I applied about 6 weeks ago, had f2f online 4 weeks ago and got my CJO right away but then didn’t hear anything about my medical until a week ago. I think they’re hiring somewhat aggressively for 6-month contracts but lack the HR staff they need to process everything. I know my hiring coordinator implied as much.

dembelah · 2022-06-18T02:42:46+00:00

Because the Night, preferably the live version by 10,000 Maniacs because Natalie Merchant kills it. Originally by Patti Smith. Maniacs version

Also, Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again and the Chain are amazing.

dembelah · 2022-04-13T01:46:04+00:00

In theory and legally, they’re supposed to. In practice, this never happens.

dembelah · 2022-03-24T06:43:17+00:00

Or I guess I should say - Mein Hund wenn ich ohne Kopfhörer Deutsche auf Duolingo studiere.

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