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Aug. 29th, 2009
Daily life: Novel research and DS
Aug. 29th, 2009 02:32 pm"Only on [the Erotic Romance Writers Forum] would someone have an 'immediate need' for text on fisting."
--Cupnjava, responding a couple of years ago to one of my research requests.
( Background to my entries )
( Two exchanges with my apprentice )
( Prison City research: The oyster wars )
( REVIEW: Recommendation of Syd McGinley's The Complete Dr. Fell, Volume 1: Lost )
( Historians need to be sent back to school )
( Protocol prep )
--Cupnjava, responding a couple of years ago to one of my research requests.
( Background to my entries )
( Two exchanges with my apprentice )
( Prison City research: The oyster wars )
( REVIEW: Recommendation of Syd McGinley's The Complete Dr. Fell, Volume 1: Lost )
( Historians need to be sent back to school )
( Protocol prep )
WEEK OF JULY 12
--Days online: 6.
--Hours online: 14.
WEEK OF JULY 19
--Days online: 6.
--Hours online: 16.
WEEK OF JULY 26
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 8.
WEEK OF AUGUST 2
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 6.
WEEK OF AUGUST 9
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 5.5.
WEEK OF AUGUST 16
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 3.
It's official. I'm in remission from my Internet addiction.
(*Bells ringing.* *Fireworks exploding.* *Twenty-one gun salute.*)
I still have one more major challenge ahead of me: this winter will be difficult, since I plan to go online less and will have fewer offline activities with which to distract myself (since I'll be homebound and won't be able to read standard-sized print, the way I can in the summer). But in celebration of what I've accomplished so far, here is a roughly chronological list of the steps that I took in my battle against my Internet addiction.
Success took me twelve years.
( My multi-step battle against Internet addiction )
--Days online: 6.
--Hours online: 14.
WEEK OF JULY 19
--Days online: 6.
--Hours online: 16.
WEEK OF JULY 26
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 8.
WEEK OF AUGUST 2
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 6.
WEEK OF AUGUST 9
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 5.5.
WEEK OF AUGUST 16
--Days online: 1.
--Hours online: 3.
It's official. I'm in remission from my Internet addiction.
(*Bells ringing.* *Fireworks exploding.* *Twenty-one gun salute.*)
I still have one more major challenge ahead of me: this winter will be difficult, since I plan to go online less and will have fewer offline activities with which to distract myself (since I'll be homebound and won't be able to read standard-sized print, the way I can in the summer). But in celebration of what I've accomplished so far, here is a roughly chronological list of the steps that I took in my battle against my Internet addiction.
Success took me twelve years.
( My multi-step battle against Internet addiction )
I actually didn't set goals last fall, because . . . well, you'll see why. It was sort of like having someone shove the United States's multi-trillion-dollar debt in one's face, saying, "Here! Figure out what to do!" It took me months after my mother's death to even work out where the exact problems lay in my life, much less start to come up with solutions.
In this series of four posts, I'll be listing the physical and mental objects in my life that I gradually realized needed to be organized, the goals I set for myself over the past year, whether I met them, and my goals for next year.
( First Priority Resolutions: Internet, Writing, Etc. )
In this series of four posts, I'll be listing the physical and mental objects in my life that I gradually realized needed to be organized, the goals I set for myself over the past year, whether I met them, and my goals for next year.
( First Priority Resolutions: Internet, Writing, Etc. )