Day 1, of 100.

[i_ate_my_crusts]

So I said, on facebook, that I was going to try for an internet-free life, for a while. With a bunch of caveats. The biggest caveat being that I can't really have an internet-free life because I'm a web-monkey by trade. But I can at least focus on the things which matter to me, online. Those being: Writing, contributing, connecting

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[murasaki_1966]

Welcome back!

[i_ate_my_crusts]

Thanks!

[andrewducker]

Nice to see you on here.

I'm struggling to write much at the moment. Definitely not writing about work has probably caused a bunch of that, because my brain is mostly revolving around either work or Julie.

Or a certain Scottish event. Which I am looking forward to being over, because I will get 25% of my brain back.

[i_ate_my_crusts]

Oh, that Scottish event. It's filling the brain, waking moments and miscellaneous other things of Scottish folks I know. Urgh.

[julesjones]

Good to see your pixels. :-)

Blacklist them, in a way that makes it easy but not trivial to lift the block. Then at least you have to make a conscious decision to lift the block, rather than looking at them at of habit.

[i_ate_my_crusts]

I like the sound of that. Blacklisting isn't great, because it masks the cause, rather than giving me a narrative of success, but breaking the habit is the important thing right now.

[surliminal]

yeh that sounds right. My usual answer to bad habit things I cant stop doing is get up and go for a swim! not useful in middle night I know and I have the exact same problem (tho my middle of night is c 1-3am while I suspect yours is earlier?:)
Also it depends if it is habituation itself or the activity that is the habit that worries you; I can substitute bad cookery programmes for FB etc but is this any better in the scheme of things??!
In the end I'm always glad, as I say, that Im more ADD than OCD so not such a biggie for me:) (tho it would be nice to fix the 1-3am thing in favour of More Sleep indeed)
Anyway here you are writing on LJ! Congrats!!!

[i_ate_my_crusts]

My middle of the night is 1-4am, so pretty close to yours.

the issue is both habituation, and the activity. If the activity feeds into the 90-second distraction/stimulation cycles I seem to be hooked on, it's something I want to reduce and remove.

[surliminal]

does sound as someone said above like a candidate for meditation - or if you're like me and find meditation impossibly dull, maybe yoga or pilates? or gardening? Its all about movement for me it seems - cant substitute a screen addiction with a healthier screen occupation. Luckily I have never wanted to be a writer ..! (though actually having said that when I DO write for work I can get into flow state and stop fiddling around with social media for entire days. Its nice. Did that happen for you when you had jnlsm deadline?)