twitter vow

I have been staying off Twitter since December because I find it can crash me out really badly. It can be a depressing place to go when you are a writer out of work and your whole twitter feed is publishing-related. All I have to do is see one thing that upsets me personally--or five or six things that are mildly irritating--and I can end up emotionally destabilized for hours. Yes, I am that fragile. So I've been avoiding.

But yesterday I was faced with a few hours of Mathcad, which I detest, and so I tiled twitter to one side of the screen and Mathcad to the other and...it was fun and nothing spooked me.

Still, I don't want to make it a habit.

Today I've got to work up the math I learned at my tutorial last night and finish checking and rewriting my assignment so I'll be ready to start on the new calculus unit. Steve is going to Liverpool to train some guys from Wolfslair, which will mean a certain amount of time wasted driving back and forth to the train station for me...but mostly it means I'll be in the house Alone With the Internet.

Yesterday was super-busy and I didn't get to write, and today is not looking promising either. Maybe I will allow myself an hour.

But NO TWITTER. (yes, I am crossposting this to twitter. that's different)