Braaaaaaains...

Working from home again today. Alex had suspicious accidents around mid-day yesterday, so I'm keeping him here until tomorrow (when he will go back, tanj dammit, since I've already paid for the field trip they're going on).

Woke up at 5:30 and finished what I had left incomplete from yesterday; am now waiting for further instructions. I feel all productive.

(Update: My supervisor won't email me the file I need due to its large size, so I guess I'm counting this as a sick day.)

I want to go back to college.

Not just get a degree, but actually go back to school, stay in the dorms, that sort of thing.

No real substance to the post, I'm just sayin'.

The Experiment

As of tonight, when I go to bed, I'm cutting myself off from most of the Internet.

I will still check email, and I will still be on IM services (Y!, MSN, ICQ, and AIM). But I will not be using the web at all - including LiveJournal - and I will not be on any chat programs except the IM services. (Greg, this does mean that I'll be missing your chat, and I apologize. If it makes you feel better, I would have missed it anyway. :/) I'll make a friends-only post immediately after this with my email address and phone number (in case anyone needs to get in touch really quickly); my IM stuff is in my userinfo.

This will last for one week. On Thursday night of next week, I'll examine the results and see what happens next.

The brief explanation for this is that I'm taking my life back. I discovered the Internet more than ten years ago, and everything else - everything that I loved: writing, reading, drawing, singing, video games, interpersonal interaction - fell to the wayside.

Seriously, here's an example: I used to love video games before the Internet. Now? I've finished two in the last decade.

I want my life, my attention, and my dedication and focus back. So I'm cutting out my primary mind-killer.

See y'all on the flip side.