Wireless Bath

[tsukikage]

Making a long story short, I just ordered my own wireless internet with USI Wireless, who is providing Minneapolis' wireless internet service. However, until my required arrives, I'm continuing to piggyback of my dad's wireless router, in exchange for promising not to use any BT during that time. I'm feeling good about this decision, although right now my internet is... Poor. I think that has more to do with the router (or perhaps the weather) than USI Wireless being shit. (Well, I suppose I must accept that wireless internet will by default be worse than DSL in times of bad weather.) Anyways, hopefully my modem will be here soon. I'll definitely have fun installing it, though. ><; I guess it'll be good practice.
Also, ellie_desu provided some great ideas to me today. The one I'm jumping into first is a sort of payment system for my entertainment. I'll be putting away 50 cents for every half-hour of media I watch, and maybe 25 cents for every chapter of manga. Still haven't decided what I'll do with that money, whether it'll be my spending money or will go into savings. I'm a bit uncomfortable with making it my spending money, since that would essentially reward me for watching TV... I'm also considering her suggestion of setting up a checking account with a non-TCF bank and giving my dad the check card and checkbook. Anyways, she came up with a lot of good ideas that I'll be considering.

[EDIT: One other thing I should mention. In the past I've made efforts to make firm study schedules for myself, but I never stick to them. Something I've thought of that should help: I need to think of those schedules in the same way that I think of work. If I have work from 5 PM until I finish closing around midnight, apart from my half-hour break and maybe a few 3-minute bathroom breaks, I can't decide to just stop working for half an hour or go take care of some errand I just decided I need to do. If I can manage to keep that viewpoint in my mind, hopefully my planned study sessions will go better.]

Comments

[ellie-desu.livejournal.com]

You should take up the additional plan of taking .50 out of the jar for every half an hour that you study. Start thinking of the studying as prep for your future job, which it should be. I'm buying textbooks and things that are related to library science to read on my own time so I'll be better prepared. The first step is to find a book that is interesting, but related to what you want to do. One option is to score a syllabus from a class you want/need to take, and doing the required reading. I'v e gotten most of my library science books with this method.