Attempting a hard reset

So that whole starting over thing? That didn’t work so hot. The cold got worse. I got rejected by another graduate program. So it goes.

Here’s the new plan: until Friday evening (2/14) I am going to be on both a digital and a literal fast. I have taken my phone and TV remote and duct taped them into a cardboard box which is now stuffed into a cabinet that I can only reach with a stool. Starting now, I will only be consuming water and herbal tea. My hope is that by depriving myself of the two things that have been consuming all of my attention, food and mindless internet scrolling, for a few days, I will be able to hit a kind of mental reset button which will allow me to start re-instituting better habits going forward. Who knows whether this will work, but pretty much anything is worth a shot at this point, in my view.

Time to block all of the time-wasting websites until Friday night. Goodbye until then! And wish me luck.