I did something a bit spontaneous today... after coming to the conclusion that there were more important things to do with my time than making small talk and looking at funny pictures, I deactivated my facebook.
I really hope I don't accidentally log on out of habit, because it's a bad one that I want to get rid of. Even talking to people over facebook is a detriment. I've gotten used to communicating anything important through the carefully constructed written mode. So used to it, that I have lost the ability to speak about things that are emotional for me through speaking. Since I'm already beginning to lose myself in my elaborate Platonic conception, I decided it's best to do whatever I can to make myself more genuine. Cut the fluff, stop mincing manners, be a little easier on myself when it comes to social things. Give myself more time to reach for the one thing that matters.
I'll hope I can come up with some more substantive steps towards those ends. Getting off facebook is only a topical answer to one piece of the problem.
In other news, I did a few useful things today. First, I deposited a bunch of bonds from 20 years ago. It totaled... a lot of money. I felt obligated to go and spend a bit of it on some things I really, really needed: a scanner/printer, headphones, and a memory card for my camera. I also used that scanner to upload a drawing to my gallery.
Well. Nothing to do now but learn neuroscience and organic chemistry.
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