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My friend was watching a movie and I watched with him. I didn't even think about it. Then today I "took full advantage" of the break in my detox.

broke detox loool

Day 23/90 I went on a retreat, it was fun.

Day 20/90 Kate Beckinsale took up most of my day. I've had similar problems during this detox before now but never on this scale. Missed replying to some messages but I did something that I should've done earlier

Day 17/90: getting complacent

Day 16/90 was out for most of the day. Watched an episode of pokemon with a friend, might be slipping in other ways too

Day 11/90 Yeah it went a little better. I guess I have a draft, but it's probably not done and I think it's a page below the minimum. The rough draft was due yesterday.

I'm almost done reading "The Procrastination Equation" and I think the author would only recommend your detox if those things are big problems (I only read your last page of posts so idk). He said at the end of the day, fighting procrastination is not about controlling all of your impulses, that won't make you feel better. I haven't thought much about it but it makes sense to me.

Thanks for the podcast but oooo it is long, I don't really want to listen to it. This paper sucks dude. I haven't written papers of this size before and I don't feel like I know the topic very well. I feel the same way you do. Can you ask a librarian for help? At my school, you can sign up for an appointment with a librarian, even a librarian who specializes in the field that your topic is in, to help with your research. We also have a place for help with writing and, to a lesser extent, research. It helps a lot more if you go in with specific questions that will give your essay direction when they are answered. Google Scholar, public library databases, university databases. Some databases are more specialized, like social studies. When in doubt, there's probably a filter for more relevant articles, articles that are referenced the most. Think of different keywords you can look up. My teacher recommended looking at specific authors, like if I find a good paper I should consider looking at other work from those authors. I think she recommended that because my topic doesn't have that much research in it, especially in English :). Looking at a lot of scholarly work might be difficult to get through. If you have a specialist you can go to, good, idk but maybe instead of reading everything by yourself it would be more efficient to scan it for passages that are probably useful and ask to go through it with them. I'm guessing that when you find a paper you often won't have to read the whole thing so look through, keeping in mind questions that will specifically apply to your paper. I used mostly books, definitely only reading a little. You know the drill: just write. Fuck order, clarity, fuck everything :), if you immediately think of a correction that is fine. I struggle with this a lot. You might create separate documents or spaces for different topics. When you say it's daunting, are you talking about the length of the paper, potential amount of research you will have to do, other? There must be some kind of tricks you can do to put the length of the paper out of your mind, like shrinking the window so you can't see the white space that you still have to fill in, or once you have a page of writing, you never have to see white space again.

Day 10/90 Went marginally better, as in I wrote something before 5:00. I'm very close to done with "The Procrastination Equation," so I'll stop just reading the book and start applying strategies from it. I need something to do in my free time. I feel like a lot of things are potentially addicting.

Day 9/90 (written on day 10) Went pretty badly again. Was very tired, really need to do something about that

Hey Soap, I just wanted to say I'm also doing an Internet wasting detox. It's especially irritating because I'm writing a research paper now and now I've started procrastinating by simply not doing anything. I'm also in a gaming/videos about games detox but that has been easier.

Day 8/90 (journal written on day 9) Hmmm shit. I mostly just forgot to post, but it is partially due to the stress of writing as well. Nowadays, I still procrastinate a lot, but most of the procrastination is just sitting in front of my draft. I also spent some time reading "The Procrastination Equation". My draft is due tomorrow.

Day 6/90 Seems like every day I have a new excuse. Today I spent a lot of time waiting for the new player rankings for Super Smah Bros Melee. I didn't quit Melee very long ago. At least all of the rankings are published now. I did continue to avoid watching Melee, as one of the largest tournaments of the year is going on right now and I didn't watch it today. There are two or three days left, but I got this. I got a book from the library on procrastination. I don't understand how I can spend so much time on things that shouldn't take that much time, like checking Twitter or sitting and doing nothing.

Day 5/90 I did a jigsaw for 5.5 hours. I just wanted to do one part of it and a bunch of the pieces were flipped over, so I flipped over a bunch of pieces one by one, which led to me working on different parts of the puzzle which led to me doing a lot more and learning the in's and out's of the puzzle and then spending a whole bunch of time. At some points I would check the time repeatedly, but I would just brush off any concerns without thinking about it. It likely won't happen again. I know I'm not supposed to think something is wrong with me but you know. Oh also I have anger issues. Still proceeding very slowly on my research paper. Concerned I won't finish my rough draft by my Monday deadline.