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sorcyressSo here's the dealio.
I have lost an unconscionable amount of time to mindlessly fucking around on the internet in the last few...months, years, after a certain point it's all the same. I want to be very clear that this is not the kind of fucking around where I get to interact with people and talk to my friends and be generally cool. This is like...endless scrolling through twitter, or reddit, and maybe reblogging stuff on Tumblr but sure as shit not interacting with it. Super fucking passive internet use.
This is not the sort of thing that leaves me happy, or fulfilled.
So anyways, this summer I am instituting some Rules, and then I have to actually follow the Rules and it's only been two days and I'm already very fed up with everything. But I am following the Rules, and I am often pretty decent at that, so let's see how long I can go. I give it until post-Pinewoods, at which point I will fail everything forever.
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SOME RULES:
1) You get two hours of screentime a day, kiddo. You can do whatever you want with this free time, but it doesn't carry over into other days. Use it or lose it.
2) Your email inbox, 750words, the post page on Dreamwidth, and anything that is directly to do with Pinewoods or other dance responsibilities are freebies. You can stop the timer when working on them.
3) If you'd like to earn some extra time, you can try the following things:
3a) For every hour of Work you do (like, legit paid work), you can earn a half-hour of free time. This does carry over, until you use it.
3b) For every day in which you accomplish ALL your Habitica dailies, you can earn an hour of free time, which you can use the next day or whatever. Again, this carries over.
3c) If you declare in advance certain Accomplishments, and set a Reward to them, then go for it.
4) Some things don't count in the same way. That includes:
4a) The Saturday and Sunday immediately following Pinewoods are, of course, an international day of rest. You can do literally whatever you want, and you do not dip into your time bank.
4b) If you're off socializing with someone and they wanna do a screentimey thing, then yes, that's totally fine and does not count. Social screentime is exempt.
4c) Speaking of social, you actively feel good when you chat directly with people. So, from the hours of 2200-1000, you have total freedom to use GChat, Discord, or texting to communicate directly with people, and that's absolutely fine and strongly encouraged. Don't stay up all night, probably, or do, whatever.
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Anywho, that's where I'm at. "But Kat!" we ask ourself. "What will I ever do with that non-screen time that I suddenly have? How will I manage?!
Fuck, I dunno kid. Go read a book or ten, or organize your damn craft supplies, or draw or something. Or sleep a lot. Or, take the loopholes I have left you and go full steam ahead --note that we've written over two thousand words today, and archived about fifty emails. Both of which are Good Things and that's really the main goal here, to sublimate the Bad Addiction into more of a Helpful Addiction or something like that.
Cheers, my friends. Hopefully I will write a life report sometime soon.
~Sor
MOOP!
I have lost an unconscionable amount of time to mindlessly fucking around on the internet in the last few...months, years, after a certain point it's all the same. I want to be very clear that this is not the kind of fucking around where I get to interact with people and talk to my friends and be generally cool. This is like...endless scrolling through twitter, or reddit, and maybe reblogging stuff on Tumblr but sure as shit not interacting with it. Super fucking passive internet use.
This is not the sort of thing that leaves me happy, or fulfilled.
So anyways, this summer I am instituting some Rules, and then I have to actually follow the Rules and it's only been two days and I'm already very fed up with everything. But I am following the Rules, and I am often pretty decent at that, so let's see how long I can go. I give it until post-Pinewoods, at which point I will fail everything forever.
*************
SOME RULES:
1) You get two hours of screentime a day, kiddo. You can do whatever you want with this free time, but it doesn't carry over into other days. Use it or lose it.
2) Your email inbox, 750words, the post page on Dreamwidth, and anything that is directly to do with Pinewoods or other dance responsibilities are freebies. You can stop the timer when working on them.
3) If you'd like to earn some extra time, you can try the following things:
3a) For every hour of Work you do (like, legit paid work), you can earn a half-hour of free time. This does carry over, until you use it.
3b) For every day in which you accomplish ALL your Habitica dailies, you can earn an hour of free time, which you can use the next day or whatever. Again, this carries over.
3c) If you declare in advance certain Accomplishments, and set a Reward to them, then go for it.
4) Some things don't count in the same way. That includes:
4a) The Saturday and Sunday immediately following Pinewoods are, of course, an international day of rest. You can do literally whatever you want, and you do not dip into your time bank.
4b) If you're off socializing with someone and they wanna do a screentimey thing, then yes, that's totally fine and does not count. Social screentime is exempt.
4c) Speaking of social, you actively feel good when you chat directly with people. So, from the hours of 2200-1000, you have total freedom to use GChat, Discord, or texting to communicate directly with people, and that's absolutely fine and strongly encouraged. Don't stay up all night, probably, or do, whatever.
*************
Anywho, that's where I'm at. "But Kat!" we ask ourself. "What will I ever do with that non-screen time that I suddenly have? How will I manage?!
Fuck, I dunno kid. Go read a book or ten, or organize your damn craft supplies, or draw or something. Or sleep a lot. Or, take the loopholes I have left you and go full steam ahead --note that we've written over two thousand words today, and archived about fifty emails. Both of which are Good Things and that's really the main goal here, to sublimate the Bad Addiction into more of a Helpful Addiction or something like that.
Cheers, my friends. Hopefully I will write a life report sometime soon.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2018-06-26 05:48 pm (UTC)♥
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on 2018-06-26 06:34 pm (UTC)To wit, when you return home from work, you must immediately set an alarm for an hour (or if you're a purist, one hour, one minute). Until the alarm goes off, you can have NO CONTACT with anything electronic. You do *not* have to use this time to accomplish things --reading books, napping, and chatting with the roommates while looking for dinner are all totally appropriate things to do!
The goal is to break the habit of getting home, getting online, and getting stuck (which is something I have a lot of trouble with). If I don't immediately get on the electronics, I can do a much better job of modulating their use later in the evening.
~Sor
Awesome.
on 2018-06-26 06:25 pm (UTC)*hugs!*
Re: Awesome.
on 2018-06-26 06:35 pm (UTC)Thank you!
*Hugsback*
~Sor
Re: Awesome.
on 2018-06-26 06:42 pm (UTC)Someday I might tell you the lengths I have to go to to make myself be organized, but likely not over the unsecured Internet.