I need a serious dose of self control. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been sitting at my desk doing work when I start to get curious about what’s going on over here. I lie to myself and say I’m just going to browse the forums and only read threads whose titles catch my eye. Turns out a bunch “catch my eye”, then I start posting and stuff too and before I know it, ages have passed. As a matter of fact, I’m supposed to be working right now. D’oh!
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I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Why am I even reading this response!!! :smack: Get to work, child!!!
I finished a PhD while accumulating 5000+ posts. It can be done.
I know what you mean. I’ll be fired any second for slacking off.
I’m not reading this right now, as I am quite busy with my studies. Sorry.
I decided to quit my job so I could read the Dope full-time. One week to go!
Give yourself a break. If it wasn’t this, it would be something else. (Me, I play ‘Dynomite’ way too often. And fantasize about having Angela in my clutches.)
Besides, you can be a successful academic without killing yourself as long as you have productive colleagues.
Br – eak? Eh? :dubious: But seriously, I do tons of that breaking stuff. I probably should have mentioned I was under a 1:15 deadline when I posted the OP.
at least you are not doing vanity searches to see what other people are saying about you 
Ok I just said that so you would spend more time here at the straight dope… If I can get you stuck here for an additional hour I get a coffee mug!!
I tell myself it’s educational, and then conveniently forget about all the time spent reading TMI threads.
Any ruse I had of it being educational probably became too far-fetched to believe around post 3K.
Right now I just do it because I can’t stop…
I actually had my SO set up firewall rules during exams so that I couldn’t come here, or go to fark. It worked, though I had to BEG for an hour or so a day of catching up on the best threads Now I’m done exams, and haven’t started working yet, so I can literally sit here all day and read the boards and chat
Well, if someone CrankyAsAnOldMan can finish a doctorate on Dope*, I’m sure a MeanOldLady can do it too. 
I’m sure I’ll be fine. It’s more like I’m smacking myself around for having NO damn self control. There’ve been times where I’ve had a paper due in about .062 seconds and I still put it off to check out the boards. Before the SDMB, I found other ways to waste time. Oy, this girl needs some serious discipline.
Heh. This board is actually, in a “will-not-ever-be-mentioned-to-my-parents” kind of way, why I am not continuing in IB next year and will be enjoying my senior year taking easy, normal high school courses. Discussion between a few thousand people, a sense of curiosity, and Google are a bad, bad combination.
‘Specially when there’s a math test the next freakin’ day. And a major, major art exam on Tuesday. This is actually one of 4 major online addictions for me - another BB, shockwave pool, and AIM are the others. Having a computer in my room was a bad, bad move…
Made ya look.