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I'm back, y'alls
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It's been a while.
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The Chuck Yeager Plan AKA The Plan (?)
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I'm an addict, an addict of excessive recreational electronics use. I play too many video games, archive-binge for web comics or sponge off of TvTropes or Wikipedia or stuff like that. I'll do this for hours at a time; although it actually used to be much worse, it's still not at all unusual for me to sit in front of the screen for up to eight or so hours at a time, swear off the Internet forever like some drunk with a massive hangover, and then proceed to get shit-faced again that same day or the next day. You might think, looking at the forums and my own journal entries here, that I'm kind of a one-note canary with this whole addiction thing. Unfortunately, you'd be right. Video games and the Internet define who I am at the expense of everything else. I've not been okay with that for a few years now.
What's needed is a plan. A good plan. A plan for action. A sexy plan, a plan that will appeal to the influential 21- to 35-year old rutabaga farmer demographic. So my team of world-renowned experts have formulated one that meets all of my needs: The Chuck Yeager Plan, named after the man who successfully dealt with his own crippling addiction to break the sound barrier, only to be tragically devoured by giant alligators mere days after being declared rehabilitated. You may remember his exploits and struggles in the 1982 hit film, Yeagermeister.
So here's the Chuck Yeager Plan: I'll continue to play video games and surf the web, but only after 11:00 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and after 10:00 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Then I'll go to bed at midnight. This gives me 10 hours a week in which to dick around with electronic toys, which I think anybody would agree is a fair number. All the things that count as electronic entertainment include: Playing any sort of video games (excluding playing games with other people), surfing the web for fun, watching movies for fun either on a computer or on a television set (again, with the exception of watching movies with other people) or toying around on my computer even if not connected to the Internet (things like writing stories in Word, making images in Paint, etc., etc....). Television watching is not included in this total, as I'm not addicted to it, yet. But this could totally change in the future. Also, I can totally listen to music or podcasts on iTunes because I can multitask when listening to them. This way, if I splurge after the time period in which I'm allowed to play with electronics, then at least I will have had the chance to do something useful earlier that day.
What good is a plan, though, without any sort of accountability? It's always great to have that little angel on your shoulder, that little daemon of self-control, to remind you to be honest and good and not to buy those super-cool looking neon-lit roller-blades because you really need that money for the rent this month. But my angel either died or quit without notice years ago. So I'm going to depend on YOU, yes YOU, to be my new collective shoulder-angel. I'm going to create a new text-box on my DeviantART homepage, the Chuck Yeager Project box, which lists the name of the plan, the date it was initially implemented, the most recent day that I violate the plan, the reason why the most recent violation of the plan occurred, the consecutive number of days that I successfully follow the plan (which is reset when I violate its rules), and the maximum number of consecutive days that I successfully follow the plan. It's like a game, except really boring and drawn out to an intolerable extent. If I violate the plan at any time, be sure to give me a good tongue-lashing via the comments box on my front page.
So that's that. Hopefully this works. I'm sick of wasting time, and hopefully this plan ought to be successful. Goodnight, everybody!
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Completely addicted to everything
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Guys, or anybody that inadvertently clicks on this, I am completely addicted to the internet. I often spend hours at time on it. I've spent two and a half days in a row awake and browsing randomly. I'd like to say that this has been fun at one point, but I can't really say when that point was. Now I spend time on here because I can't imagine doing anything else. The thought that literally follows whenever I think about getting away is "...And do what?"
There's a lot of stuff out there. There's reading or watching movies or growing something or playing a musical instrument or talking to other people, for Christ's sake. And I'm missing out on it all. The weekends are when other people hang out together or engage in their hobbies or whatever. The weekend for me is when I spend time on the internet. It doesn't always start out planned that way, but that's how it is. The people that don't do this are utterly unfathomable to me.
I think what keeps me drawn back in is that on the Internet, there's truly something for everybody. It's the ultimate stimulant. I can read about stuff or watch stuff that interests me the most at any given moment. The moment I get even the slightest bit bored, I can immediately switch to another topic. Hell, sometimes I'll avoid something new, just because I think there's the slightest chance that that something will bore me or that I won't like it for some other reason.
This has been a problem with me for years now. It's only in the last couple of years that I've tried to do anything about it. At first I tried to cut myself off completely. I was utterly bored during that time, so I decided to try and moderate myself, maybe just spending an hour online on one day or only spending time on one website. Normally, I think this would be the ideal solution, but I never have the discipline to do this and gradually I'll look at the content on other sites or spend one minute, another minute, online. It's always how this damn thing happens.
The scariest thing about this isn't the immense amount of time that I waste on here, or the opportunities I keep missing. The scariest part is that I simply don't care about the problem anymore. I recognize cognitively that I have a problem, but there's no passion to get out and do something else. I honestly wonder if this is an effect of being online for excessively for so many years, or if that's simply the way I am. I never was one to express or really even feel emotions to any great extent.
Well, that's enough rambling, I suppose. See you in the morning, internet!
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Hey. This is "Blue" Kristi, here. Holy moley, has it really been six months already...?
You may have noticed that the output here has dropped dramatically in the past month or so. There's really no other explanation than that I just really haven't had the energy to focus on concentrated pieces of art. I think some of this has something to do with personal issues (diet, sleep, school, whatever), but some of it is that the initial thrill of writing stories and making pictures on one over-arching DeviantART account (I've got about five or six of them floating out there somewhere... Honestly, I've forgotten the names of all the rest of them...) has worn off.
I think this is normal for most people as it relates to most hobbies. And because I don't do this for any sort of material, financial, and personal gain (aside from your wonderful comments, of course!), that provides less of an incentive to actually sit down and draw or write or whatever. It doesn't help that I'm an innately lazy and easily distracted person to begin with.
However, one thing that I've always done, especially when I'm bored or tired, is doodle. I could honestly (and have) doodle all the live-long day if I could. And I can do this while doing other things, too. So I've decided to create a journal of sorts on this account, a Visual Journal, which are not different from my usual doodles, except that I'm collecting them every day (or at least I'll try to), and I guess they have a little more structure and focus than usual, so they may be slightly autobiographic. Just go to the appropriate folder to see what's new.
I'm not planning to abandon my SCP and other writings and works; There are still stories that I've got in my head and just need to type out. In particular, there's at least one more Dog Days of Spring story I want to write. If anything, the Visual Journal project will help generate new ideas for other things. I also want to consolidate all of my old work onto this account, except perhaps the shockingly bad stuff (although maybe I'll just put those under "Scraps")! That's what the Archives folder was originally created for.
Thanks for reading (although if you read this far, that really wasn't necessary. Sorry), and I hope everybody else is doing well.
- "Blue" Kristi
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The Dog Days of Spring
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Dearest 1398-V6AX listening audience,
Greetings. My name is Canis Garrula. But please, call me "Cane". I insist. How do you do? Oh no, don't get up for me. Just sit back on down. That's it. Sit. Good.
Anyways, I've been asked to tell you all a little something about dogs by my good friends, The Vested Interests. Simply put, dogs are some of the most wonderful creatures that have ever graced this undeserving planet. Dogs are intelligent. Dogs are loyal. Dogs know when to let loose and have a good time. Unlike those stuck-up cat bastards. Just because one is a member of the pinnacle form of life on Earth doesn't mean that he's too good to sniff a lovely pair of buttocks every once and a while. But I guess that cats simply aren't smart enough to realize this.
But I'm not here to dispense well-deserved critiques of the Feline Menace. I'm here to celebrate Dog-kind and its innumerable achievements! In recognition of dogs everywhere, 1398-V6AX ("THE WAVE!") is broadcasting a series of three tributes (actually maybe two, but most likely probably) three tributes to great dogs and their innovations. Surely, this shall be a wonderful inspiration to two-legged and inferior four-legged peoples throughout the globe!
So I invite you to siiiiiiit back and enjoy 1398-V6AX's The Dog Days of Spring series! Good boys! Yes, you are all such good boys! Yes you are! Yes you are!
PART 1 - In which a dog discovers strength and resolve inside herself and manages to elude her gangly captors 1398-v6ax.deviantart.com/art/S…
PART 2 - In which a dog remains loyal to his "masters" to the end, and then graciously accepts his freedom 1398-v6ax.deviantart.com/art/T…
Thank you all for your time and attention. Now if you'll excuse me, I must run around in circles and try to catch my tail until the ship arrives. Farewell friends!
Sincerely,
Canis Garrula
Greetings. My name is Canis Garrula. But please, call me "Cane". I insist. How do you do? Oh no, don't get up for me. Just sit back on down. That's it. Sit. Good.
Anyways, I've been asked to tell you all a little something about dogs by my good friends, The Vested Interests. Simply put, dogs are some of the most wonderful creatures that have ever graced this undeserving planet. Dogs are intelligent. Dogs are loyal. Dogs know when to let loose and have a good time. Unlike those stuck-up cat bastards. Just because one is a member of the pinnacle form of life on Earth doesn't mean that he's too good to sniff a lovely pair of buttocks every once and a while. But I guess that cats simply aren't smart enough to realize this.
But I'm not here to dispense well-deserved critiques of the Feline Menace. I'm here to celebrate Dog-kind and its innumerable achievements! In recognition of dogs everywhere, 1398-V6AX ("THE WAVE!") is broadcasting a series of three tributes (actually maybe two, but most likely probably) three tributes to great dogs and their innovations. Surely, this shall be a wonderful inspiration to two-legged and inferior four-legged peoples throughout the globe!
So I invite you to siiiiiiit back and enjoy 1398-V6AX's The Dog Days of Spring series! Good boys! Yes, you are all such good boys! Yes you are! Yes you are!
PART 1 - In which a dog discovers strength and resolve inside herself and manages to elude her gangly captors 1398-v6ax.deviantart.com/art/S…
PART 2 - In which a dog remains loyal to his "masters" to the end, and then graciously accepts his freedom 1398-v6ax.deviantart.com/art/T…
Thank you all for your time and attention. Now if you'll excuse me, I must run around in circles and try to catch my tail until the ship arrives. Farewell friends!
Sincerely,
Canis Garrula
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