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ADHD flaring up uncontrollably at work, so have installed LeechBlock on Firefox, which keeps me from going to a list of websites I choose between hours I set (9-12, and 1-3, if you're interested). As we're heading into the huge push to code the new website now, this is a necessary thing.

Made the decision not to do Yuletide this year, as I have no spoons left at the moment. It's annoying, because the only way I can make myself write is to have a deadline imposed on me from outside or to be collaborating with someone else who helps me stay on track*, and I'd like to write.

Have discovered that it's been long enough that the local library no longer has a record of the late fees I owe them** or, indeed, of me, so I have gotten a new library card and

myrialux has agreed to put the reminder on his iPhone to turn them in whenever I check them out. Am now therefore most of the way through Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker, which is holding my interest in a way that his Mistborn trilogy utterly failed to do. Even though the magic system doesn't ring true to me :) (Well, less the system and more the terminology, if that makes sense.)

* True of many projects of mine. This is why I tend to post here whenever I get an idea and see if anyone's interested in helping. And why most of them wither and die - nobody steps up to say "Yes! I'll do [such-and-such]!" and I don't have the focus to do it on my own (many original writing and art projects, frex) or to be the sole leader of such a project (the bishounen card game, frex).

** Librarians are the worst at returning books.

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if you decide you have more spoons later, there's always pinch hits to grab. :)

Yeah, I'm still on the pinch hit list, and there's always Yuletide Madness right before the archive opens. :)

LeechBlock? Thank you for telling me about this. It's going on here right now.

I've also just installed Read It Later (http://readitlaterlist.com/), which allows me to bookmark pages to get back to later, and can access from any computer I sync with it. Pretty much the same sort of thing as Delicious or other bookmarking services, only slightly less annoying than I'm finding the Delicious bookmarklets.

Librarians are terrible at returning books. *looks shifty*

I'm thinking of installing LeechBlock myself. No more random stuff! It's very hard to concentrate. Your tips helped a whole lot, though. I think that I forgot to say (see focus comma lack of...).

Hope everything goes better for you. I'm cutting way back on projects, too, although......I do have an art piece I could use a beta for sometime this weekend or later next week if you're looking for a small project.

A year or so back I had a Greasemonkey script on here that did more or less the same thing, but couldn't find it when I went looking for it. Found LeechBlock instead, and it seems to be working. You can also set LeechBlock to block a list of sites for a set number of minutes/hours, if you're not on a schedule but instead want to sit down and write or do art without distraction for a period of time.

You can end me the art/link to the art, and I'll try to get to it, but I won't make any promises. :)

My library system sends me email reminders 2 days before I need to return books. It's very helpful.

I am lazy and came to rely on that, which turned bad when the system spontaneously decided it no longer had my e-mail address--after two solid years of flawless e-mail alerts--and I didn't notice I had a couple of books checked out several weeks after their due date until the fines mounted.

Librarians are totally the worst at returning books! I'm actually ridiculously conscientious about returning books, as long as I remember that the books are due, but one of my fellow library students/co-workers freely admit she tends to rack up around $50 in fines each semester from her pleasure reading alone, and only returns her old books when they stop letting her check out new ones.