what do you do while you proof listen?

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » March 15th, 2012, 10:34 am

i dont think this question was asked before, and i was always wondering: what do people do while they proof listen if they do not read along with the text? i personally need to keep my hands occupied, so since it is winter time, i knit, mostly. or i play tetris online. or, as i do right now, i stare at the ceiling wondering what on earth my upstairs neighbors are doing with these strange noises coming from there.

what do you do?

CK

Post by **TriciaG** » March 15th, 2012, 10:35 am

Right now, either Spider Solitaire or Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. My choice of games has changed occasionally, however.

dii · Post by **dii** » March 15th, 2012, 11:19 am

Yeah, I play games too

Like solitaire and minesweeper... to keep it simple

prwells32 · Post by **prwells32** » March 15th, 2012, 11:51 am

Depends. Most of the time I just load the recording onto my iPod and go about doing a few things while I listen, if word-perfect isn't requested of course.

aravis · Post by **aravis** » March 15th, 2012, 1:12 pm

I usually put all PLing on my ipod too, so that I can listen while doing housework or on my way to work. But most of the time I either knit or play video games. Right now I'm totally addicted to Anthill on ipad.

anna · Post by **anna** » March 15th, 2012, 1:24 pm

I cross stitch or knit

jollyrogered · Post by **jollyrogered** » March 16th, 2012, 7:04 am

If I'm at home, I embroider. I could never PL anything word perfect, because I cannot sit still for that. I always end up reading ahead and getting absorbed in the text, and soon I've stop listening all together.

95% of my PLing is done while I'm at work though. I do data entry for a legal library, so as long as I'm just entering and not researching I can listen to the files.

Post by **TriciaG** » March 16th, 2012, 7:24 am

Wow. I can't do anything verbal (even scanning unrelated text or data entry) while PLing. My language center is NOT duo core!

miss stav · Post by **miss stav** » March 16th, 2012, 8:31 am

Sound strange, but I did wordcountings while I pled. The combination kept me concentrated in both errias, since I need to do something elce while wordcounting (otherwise it getts annoying), and I need to move my hands while I pl.

Post by **KiltedDragon** » March 16th, 2012, 8:32 am

I have found I can do other reading and listening and still PL without any problem; depends on how interested I am in the story. If it is one I really want to listen to, I don't do either of those but can stay busy with my hands doing work, driving, etc.

Usually I like to do it while I am planning World Domination but that is going pretty slow at this time.

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 16th, 2012, 10:54 am

Invariably fall asleep. Even (or maybe especially) when proof-listening my own stuff.

I wake feeling much refreshed.

Ruth

neckertb · Post by **neckertb** » March 18th, 2012, 1:28 am

My favorite duty for PLing is when I dissect yeast cells. (that's when everyone is supposed to ask: how can you dissect a unicellular organism?). It's a very repetitive, boring thing to do, and I have to be looking in the microscope all the time, it gets pretty dull.

Else I do it in the train, but it's seldom that I take it without kids, so it's not that often. I remember PLing XYZ for Carolin and missing my stop

Regular hosuechores work too.

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » March 18th, 2012, 1:50 am

neckertb wrote:I remember PLing XYZ for Carolin and missing my stop

ha, i remember you mentioned that. sorry!

CK

Hazel Pethig · Post by **Hazel Pethig** » March 23rd, 2012, 12:40 pm

I usually PL while I am baking. I make lots of large batches of bread, and tons of baked goods. It is much easier to listen to my mp3 player than try to follow along with the tv in the other room

--Hazel

ashleighjane · Post by **ashleighjane** » March 24th, 2012, 6:52 am

I usually read along with the text, but sometimes if I'm too tired to read I play solitaire. Occasionally I tidy my room whilst PLing