Sorta-Bye!

[packbat]

As I may have forgotten to mention, I graduated last May and came back to get my Master's. As part of this, I have signed onto the the school's payroll as a Graduate Research Assistant for (nominally) 20 hours per week while I take my classes.

However you cut that, my Internet habits gotta change.

What does this mean? Mainly three things:

• I'm not going to sign up for anything that requires a major time commitment over a short period of time.
  
• I'm not going to be following blogs any more - especially including Livejournal - or be actively participating in forums, comment threads, &c.
  
• I'm not going to follow most links to stuff online that takes any time commitment.

I do plan to continue as a maintainer on nomicide (though a less obsessive one) and check my email boxes once or twice a day. I get email notification of comments and I can sign up for email notifications of tagged entries on a journal (e.g. if active_apathy still needs an IF beta-tester - I can do that bit by bit on the bus). But spending all day bouncing comments back and forth, or spending six hours plowing through LJ friends-page entries and links therefrom, or even spending just two or three hours jumping around on Yahoo! Answers trying to make my score a multiple of five, I can't afford any more.

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Shiny; my life should be more conducive to doing my bit anyway, and nomicide is kind of designed not to eat lives.

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the graduation! See you if and when you get back. :D

[packbat.livejournal.com]

...and I plan not to change that for Game 2. :)

[packbat.livejournal.com]

It's not so much I'm gone as no longer actively present. I'll likely still post sometimes, just not keep up with what everyone is doing.