“When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles.”
you're all just the sweetiest. thanks for the encouragement, understanding, and fellow feeling. it means more to me than you know.
this weekend i commenced with digging myself out of the cyberhole of my own creation (does anyone even use the term 'cyber' anymore? dude, that's like SO 1997!). my plan of attack thus far has included unsubscribing from, like, ten different email lists i'm on (which, now that i've reached the point of being desperate enough to be honest with myself, i haven't been reading or participating in for well over a year. SAYONARA, SUCKAS!), upping the spam filtering on ze blog (which may lead to the occasional unfortunate instance of valid comments being held back in comment purgatory until i approve them, but these are the sacrifices one must make in the name of sweet, sweet sanity), and designing an email filtering/filing system to help better organize and structure my e-crap. basically, i've made my online life into something resembling a nightmare of franklin covey-like efficiency... soon i'll be investing in those successories motivational posters, and talking about the power of a positive attitude (in truth, i'm much more aligned in both attitude and action with these, and in particular this, this, and this).
i've also decided to limit my online time to those moments existing wholly outside the M_verse, when she's at preschool or unconcious --- err, i mean asleep. all of these changes may seem ridiculously simple, but i've always been a little slow on the uptake, so it all feels somewhat revelatory.
okay, you can all stop laughing at me now.
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dude, i wouldn't laugh. i'm glad you've found a system for yourself. i should work on same.
Posted by: supa | November 21, 2005 at 05:09 PM
I am definitely not laughing, because until you mentioned it, it never occurred to me to create an e-mail filter for myself to handle some of my crap, er, correspondence. You are not the slowest on the uptake as long as I am in the running.
Posted by: schmutzie | November 21, 2005 at 05:25 PM
this all sounds dead sane to me, sweets. and understandable. i nearly got myself a new handheld that does email, phone, internets, etc. i am now thinking to myself. "hmmmm, just what i need--to check email while in grocery line/watching wiggles/ etc etc." maybe it's just not what I need, thinking about it in context of what you are saying here.
yeah, make it more a job of work (coz it IS work) and schedule it in. Now, I must go obsessively check my in-box some more;-)
Posted by: joy | November 21, 2005 at 05:30 PM
I wish you nothing but the best in finding and attaining balance. I'd be one of the many who would mourn the loss of your writing and insights, so I'm all for any system that works for you. Or if you need a break from the Internets, know that a whole lot of people would be waiting for you when you returned.
Posted by: Editrix | November 21, 2005 at 06:12 PM
Oh, no! Cyber is out? But cyberhole is such an awesome word that I must work it into at least 3 conversations this week.
I love that poster so much. I think it's the sand castle that made my choke so much I coughed and coughed for 5 minutes (and this cleared my lungs, at least for the next 2 minutes, so thanks!)
Posted by: Ozma | November 21, 2005 at 09:15 PM
ozma, now that you mention it, cyberhole is a fine abusive epithet... ya gawddamn CYBERHOLE!!!
perhaps a new alternate for 'troll'?
hmm...
Posted by: sweetney | November 22, 2005 at 03:00 AM