Press button. Get treat. Run around rat maze. Press button. Get treat.
I made a decision to take yesterday off from mental labour - and such is rare for me, since normally the decision is made for me by my thinking parts going STOP NO CANNOT BRAIN.
I did mean to go to bed early like a sane person who intends to fix her sleep patterns, but when I wandered off last night to play videogames, I rather lost track. It turns out that real-time strategy games are the perfect kind of non-threateningly absorbing to occupy the majority of my attention without requiring my emotional investment. I may have mentioned this before. The absence of narrative means it's interesting, like a puzzle, without feeling like work.
But I got distracted by the push-button-get-reward nature of play, and ended up not going to bed until after 0500. I should really put myself on some kind of timer, I suppose...
( Cut for some personal meandering )
Anyway. That's life.
I did mean to go to bed early like a sane person who intends to fix her sleep patterns, but when I wandered off last night to play videogames, I rather lost track. It turns out that real-time strategy games are the perfect kind of non-threateningly absorbing to occupy the majority of my attention without requiring my emotional investment. I may have mentioned this before. The absence of narrative means it's interesting, like a puzzle, without feeling like work.
But I got distracted by the push-button-get-reward nature of play, and ended up not going to bed until after 0500. I should really put myself on some kind of timer, I suppose...
( Cut for some personal meandering )
Anyway. That's life.