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[valis2]

I'm getting all antsy online, and it culminated in a near freakout while trying to finish listings for eBay. See, I'm all superstitious about it; I only list Mon-Thurs between 8 and 10 pm. I stagger it, too. If my listings end on a Wednesday, I start the next batch on Thursday.

So I hate doing listings on Thursday, because if I miss any I feel like I can't just list them on Friday because no one will be online to bid. Or at least I think so. So while I'm trying to watch the only two shows I ever really watch regularly(CSI/Survivor) I'm also listing at the same time, which makes me anxious, because I don't want to screw anything up. And now that I'm using Turbo Lister (which I'm still fumbling around with, this is only the second time I've used it), it's making me even more antsy.

And because I've come back from a week away, there's the weird anxiety about having too many tabs open, and yet continuing to open more as I slowly work through the flist. Each tab is a pretty big thing at this point, either an essay or a long fic, and I feel like I can't "leave" the computer to do other things that need to be done---because I'm not "finished". I really have to break myself out of this bizarre mental hangup.

Just another evening in the cluttered neurotic attic of the valismind.

Comments

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

Wow, your mind works so much like mine some times. Even when I'm just trying to catch up on the flist after a weekend or researching several different things, I have a weird "tied to the computer" feeling. This is especially true with a lot of tabs open. I can imagine it only gets worse when you're doing work-related stuff in some tabs and also trying to read large entries!

How do I release myself from this? I've been bookmarking the fics I want to read and setting them aside for later. It's usually the one thing I feel can wait and enjoy at a later time. That said, it's still hard to get away when there are so many great things to read.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have the same trick, I also put the fics into bookmarks. But the essays! They linger! And I just can't save them for later...they expire, you know. *laughs*