Comments on: Today I Feel…Idiotic

By: dream_labyrinth

dream_labyrinth — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:30:53 +0000

I don’t have timers, but when it comes to obsessive compulsive behaviour… Oh my.
I need to make the bed. Every morning. And the dishes need to be done before I leave for work. And the lid of the loo has to be closed, though it’s not as if anybody but me would see it, and when I go to bed I make sure there’s nothing left standing around on the coffee table in the living room, not even the TV remote.
I never used to be orderly and clean. I only got that way once I started living on my own. I claim it’s because I’m lazy and doing things little by little is better than having to do an all-out spring cleaning.

Timing yourself when writing makes so much more sense than my little habits. It is good for your health, and it is a good sign of the writer in you to think that you need to interrupt her from time to time because otherwise she’d take over.
And I agree with Gaylin, as long as there are still things you don’t time, you’re pefectly fine!

By: Gaylin

Gaylin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:08:16 +0000

I love my timer, I live in an apartment with shared laundry and I time my wash/dry cycles, ewwww, don’t want strangers touching my clothes!
I have a small clock with a nap alarm, sets in 15 minute increments up to 90 minutes, love that clock.
If you take timers on vacation with you and time your fun, that could be a problem!

By: Hope

Hope — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:39:25 +0000

I really get thoroughly into anything I am interested in. It leads to people raising their voices, or at work touching my shoulders and watching me rise off the chair and have a heart attack!

All forms of alarms will wake me inevitable or stop my fixation, but when I hear them it’s like “what IS that noise”?

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:54:09 +0000

I’m the same way with getting into what I’m doing. My coworkers have to yell and wave their hands in front of my monitor sometimes… I just assume they aren’t talking to ME.

By: perishtwice

perishtwice — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:29:00 +0000

“I feel like a dolt almost every day of my life.”

My tired eyes read this as, ‘I feel like a dot’.

‘Wait, what, damage over time omg she’s a warlock!’ was my reaction.

Yup. =P

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:33:36 +0000

For me, it’s my music. I put on an album because when I realize, blinking, 45 minutes later, that it has ended and there is no music and I can’t move my legs from sitting on them and my dogs are staring at me like “so are you going to move today OR WHAT”, I can get up, pee, do some jumping jacks, and drink some water.

So you are not alone.

Also, I am sort of enamored of that goat story.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:45:15 +0000

The timers are actually a great idea I might steal from you. I hunch over my computer at work (and at home sometimes) and ended up with a bulging disk in my lumbar region of my lower back. So I need to get up and do a back exercise once an hour … but I get so involved in what I’m doing that I forget. And that doesn’t feel very good. So thanks for the idea!

By: Sparky

Sparky — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:28:30 +0000

It can’t be any worse than my constant battle to perfectly align everything in my environment. I align lasers for a living and so I have great spatial relationships.

My friends, (twisted individuals) like to slight knock my pictures, speakers, etc off center and time how long it takes me to notice and fix it. My partner says we can throw out the bubble levels in the house because we don’t need them anymore. And everything has to be symmetrical. She swears she will never take me to a museum or an art gallery ever again.

I think she would prefer timers.

By: martianmooncrab

martianmooncrab — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:13:23 +0000

(holding up the Sister Creature) You want an example of a highly functional OCD? Trust me, its not You. You are establishing boundaries, not inforcing rituals.

By: Kayleigh Todd

Kayleigh Todd — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:01:42 +0000

I have timers too. all over my ICal on my computer, my cell phone has 3 alarms telling me to wake up, telling me to REALLY wake up and another telling me its time to go. I understand your manic need. Are you going to have a contest for Strange Angels ARCs? The second I read what your book was about it slapped it right on my amazon wish list.
About writing as a career. I will forever be jealous. Every night I do my biochemistry homework and think….I really should have done liberal arts….Despite deadlines, being a writer must be awesome.