Thanks for the tips. I actually used to do the “anywhere but here” walk in no particular direction thing myself, although in my case rather than a length of time I’d generally walk until i got lost.
It never really improved my mood though, it just killed time.
Once I walked for 11 hours and ended up at a venetian blind factory.
None of this kind of shit ever works for me, because it seems to assume I’m a bright-eyed go-getter at heart, blundering about and playing video games when I know I should be writing my dissertation, and oh, if only there were an equation made of words that would show me the problem with my motivation pathways. (And if only the post title would change three times so it shows up thrice in my RSS feeds!)
Instead, it’s more of an all-pervasive apathy that seems to go all the way to my terminal goals. I think “what do I really want to be doing right now? where do I want to be at the end of the day, or the end of the year?” and there’s just nothing there.
HEY, I HAVE AN IDEA! LET’S SEE HOW MANY STAMPS WE CAN LICK IN AN HOUR, AND THEN TRY AND BEAT THAT RECORD!!1