Things I’ve Quit
I’m not Catholic and I’m not abstaining from anything for Lent, but I’ve managed to quit: Twitterific (with >60 contacts on Twitter, Twitterific really means something pops up every few seconds), IM (more or less, except to a sprinkling of real world friends), and RSS.
It’s temporary, of course.
Productivity is up 291827%.
I have 24 days to go before the end of term.
I am working on a number of exciting things, mostly writing and travel related.
I am working on US grad school applications, which make me want to tear out my hair.
In 24 days I head off to lie down on my beloved beach in southern Thailand, then to a northern hill to “work” on a story, but until then: it’s write, write, write. (After that it will be write, write, write too—but if school work were to pay me my present asking rate for every word, I might be richer by five or more figures.)
Blogging is the one thing I won’t try to quit again, but I might come pretty damn close.
What do you want to do after you graduate? is the question that all university students at the end of their academic lives are asked — I’m beginning to think the answer to that question is, why, what I’ve always been doing: write, write, write, and write some more. Can the end of the penultimate school term come earlier?
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I’d miss reading your blog, if you stopped. (even after reading about the state of women’s hostels :)
I’m Catholic. I know it’s Lent.
I haven’t sacrificed much but I’m thinking I’ll try and quit hypocritical friends. How ‘bout thaT?
And oi, stop gloating about your beach retreat okay? sniff snifF
Pity those that are unable to come with you lah…. :P
Oh man, no way I’m giving up my twitterrific… the first step is admitting you have a problem. I’m going to linger on that first step for a while, maybe a few years.
Can the iMacs get any slimmer? Steve Jobs: “Yes.”
i’m suspecting that the question doesn’t bother only uni about-to-be grads students:(
happy traveling:)
24 days to graduation, I’m sure you can sacrifice rss, and twitter. In fact, on the Mac I notice i’ve got a ridiculous amount of popups (go Growl!) – 1001 for flickr, twitter (something I’ve just started using, so now follow you too), IM, transmission completing, skype, etc. If you use newsfire, you’ll see rss feed updates!
I notice that on linux, I’ve just got Mugshot (not available on mac) notifying me. As well as IM…
Maybe the key is to disabling growl for a period of time? ;-)
Anyways, all the best!
24 days to the end of this term… another term to go ;)