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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2008-09-12 10:09 am
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I choose ignorance

I need to take a break from Reading the Internet... somehow, even though I kinda need to stay connected for professional reasons if nothing else. But I need to reduce or maybe just eliminate my usual LJ→BoingBoing→RSS→repeat cycle for a while. Time was it would just be a timesink, but now its helping me maintain my state of being a twitching, foaming wreck.

My baseline anger level has risen too much, too quickly, after nearly two years of calm. It's not good for me. Maybe I'll just take a day off and see what happens. (I haven't checked my LJ flist today yet. I love you all but its making me so sick.) (Yes, clearly I'm talking about Spore. Ha ha.)

My best hope is that after a little while I'll be able to swallow my anger and just live with it, unpleasant as it is, for as long as necessary. But when there's a fresh new outrage (or two) every goddamn day, boy, it can be hard to find equilibrium, you know?

[identity profile] chocorisu.livejournal.com 2008-09-12 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
This sounds very wise.

When I was working from home more often I actually set up another user account on my home PC with totally different bookmarks (limited exclusively to work-related stfuf) a more sensible desktop and everything. Practically speaking it was handy too cause it could automatically fire up VPN stuff etc. In the evening I could switch back to my regular desktop and goof around and it was like having two PCs.

Anyway, yeah, the signal-to-noise ratio in the news has been especially low the last few weeks, and I feel your frustration. I wonder if I am almost better off cause there's bugger all I can do about any of it, kinda how flying is relaxing cause if the aeroplane explodes on take-off, well, nothing I could've done about it anyway.