Sympathise re: internet-time-restriction; I go through cycles of 'restrict; oh hey it's okay; this is fun; OH NO' and repeat. :,D I held off getting a smartphone for ages; I used to have phases of burying my psp in the wardrobe sometimes because that was my portal... Something I like about dreamwidth as platforms go is that it's relatively easy to ignore (as much as anything can be, anyway). No push notifications. One thing I recommend is private browsing + logging out of everywhere by default, so you only log in when you specifically want to engage with a platform. I think Ao3 is the only thing I have logged in all the time, since that's low-drama.
idk if you play an instrument but I recommend it; you still get a bit of a dopamine hit from learning things but there's also something about it that seems to have a subconscious calming effect. It's a bit hard to distinguish cause from effect but I notice when I stop keeping up with music practice I'm less calm in general.
A friend is doing a masters in another subject, atm. The course has been negatively affected by covid; the measures they've taken to try to stop students cheating in the exams have meant the exams are all over the place; one paper super hard, another way too long, with a fiddly process where the students have to photograph the paper and attach it at the end of the exam that can be stressful to have in the back of the mind all the way through. This is a mathsy masters so things might be better on a humanities one, but just going off what I've heard, it sounds like the plan of researching + applying but considering deferring does make sense.
Good luck with the play! It sounds exciting and I am super envious. XD
There may be sommmme chance that Krita (https://krita.org/en) would work on the old laptop, if that's any use? I've never spent enough time with it to figure out how to use it properly and just use https://jspaint.app/ for everything these days. ^^' But I know that Krita can load up on mine and works with my tablet, though I'd guess my tablet is less hi-tech.
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Date: 2022-01-30 08:42 pm (UTC)idk if you play an instrument but I recommend it; you still get a bit of a dopamine hit from learning things but there's also something about it that seems to have a subconscious calming effect. It's a bit hard to distinguish cause from effect but I notice when I stop keeping up with music practice I'm less calm in general.
A friend is doing a masters in another subject, atm. The course has been negatively affected by covid; the measures they've taken to try to stop students cheating in the exams have meant the exams are all over the place; one paper super hard, another way too long, with a fiddly process where the students have to photograph the paper and attach it at the end of the exam that can be stressful to have in the back of the mind all the way through. This is a mathsy masters so things might be better on a humanities one, but just going off what I've heard, it sounds like the plan of researching + applying but considering deferring does make sense.
Good luck with the play! It sounds exciting and I am super envious. XD
There may be sommmme chance that Krita (https://krita.org/en) would work on the old laptop, if that's any use? I've never spent enough time with it to figure out how to use it properly and just use https://jspaint.app/ for everything these days. ^^' But I know that Krita can load up on mine and works with my tablet, though I'd guess my tablet is less hi-tech.