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tenlittlebullets) wrote2008-06-09 06:07 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2008-06-09 06:07 pm
I need help for this sick addiction.
God help me, I went to Second Story Books today. Walked out with Holy Madness (on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mmejavert's recommendation), some history of letters and literature in 19th century France, a book on Charles Babbage and the first computer, a *nix handbook, Ruy Blas, excerpts of Rousseau's Confessions, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a collection of English Romantic poetry, and Baugh & Cable's History of the English Language. And this was with me staying as FAR as humanly possible from the fiction section. The nice thing is that they were cheap--I got the lot for about $30, which isn't bad considering several were hardcover and those big O'Reilly computer books retail for at least $35 apiece. But seriously, I need to STOP buying books. My to-read stack is ridiculous even without the nine newest additions (and the two I got at Barnes & Noble last week). It would take me a year to get through them all even if I stayed off the internet, and even if I weren't going to school in the fall.
Actually, I need to spend less time on the computer in general. I've been falling prey to what I once heard described as "couch lock," which I don't think needs any explanation. Refresh flist. Refresh email. Refresh forums, reply to anything that looks interesting. Refresh flist, realize nothing interesting is going to pop up anytime soon. Futz around on news sites. Play Minesweeper. Repeat ad infinitum. It's boring and it's pointless and it's destroying my attention span, but I don't have the willpower to shut the damn thing off once I've checked everything and keep it off until I've done something productive.
I'm taking fanficrants and bwaytrade and a couple of the other high-traffic, low-signal-to-noise-ratio comms off my default view, which should help cut down on the intermittent positive reinforcement I get when refreshing my flist endlessly. But... ugh, there are so many better things to do than stay glued to the same ten websites. (And the number of websites to check has decreased, since I have RSS feeds of xkcd, slashdot, icanhascheezburger, and the like on my flist. One-stop shopping, wut.) What's the point of buying sketchbooks if I never draw in them, paper journals if I never write in them, sheet music if I never learn it--and books if I never read them? I need to decrease the hold the interbunnies have on my life.
mmejavert's recommendation), some history of letters and literature in 19th century France, a book on Charles Babbage and the first computer, a *nix handbook, Ruy Blas, excerpts of Rousseau's Confessions, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a collection of English Romantic poetry, and Baugh & Cable's History of the English Language. And this was with me staying as FAR as humanly possible from the fiction section. The nice thing is that they were cheap--I got the lot for about $30, which isn't bad considering several were hardcover and those big O'Reilly computer books retail for at least $35 apiece. But seriously, I need to STOP buying books. My to-read stack is ridiculous even without the nine newest additions (and the two I got at Barnes & Noble last week). It would take me a year to get through them all even if I stayed off the internet, and even if I weren't going to school in the fall.Actually, I need to spend less time on the computer in general. I've been falling prey to what I once heard described as "couch lock," which I don't think needs any explanation. Refresh flist. Refresh email. Refresh forums, reply to anything that looks interesting. Refresh flist, realize nothing interesting is going to pop up anytime soon. Futz around on news sites. Play Minesweeper. Repeat ad infinitum. It's boring and it's pointless and it's destroying my attention span, but I don't have the willpower to shut the damn thing off once I've checked everything and keep it off until I've done something productive.
I'm taking fanficrants and bwaytrade and a couple of the other high-traffic, low-signal-to-noise-ratio comms off my default view, which should help cut down on the intermittent positive reinforcement I get when refreshing my flist endlessly. But... ugh, there are so many better things to do than stay glued to the same ten websites. (And the number of websites to check has decreased, since I have RSS feeds of xkcd, slashdot, icanhascheezburger, and the like on my flist. One-stop shopping, wut.) What's the point of buying sketchbooks if I never draw in them, paper journals if I never write in them, sheet music if I never learn it--and books if I never read them? I need to decrease the hold the interbunnies have on my life.