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Re: The Sixty-hour hyperfocus COMA

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So glad you found it useful! Let us know how it goes! Firefox has been my browser of choice for years now.

Internet research is my bigger downfall. I do a lot of mindless surfing too, but I love to research and find avenues of information other than wikipedia.

My worst internet research ‘coma’, was when Katrina hit. I love weather and days before CNN was on the bandwagon, I was following the storm. More interested in the science than the drama. I spent every hour I wasn’t at work (and some while I was) on my couch with computer on my lap and at least two windows and over 20 tabs open to a variety of sites from NOAA, to National Geographic, to a very technical meteorologists forum where I only understood about 1/4 of what I read, plus I was flipping back and forth between CNN (which I usually hate) and various other news outlets on the tv. Once it became more of a human story, I was also on itunes listening to police radios in New Orleans.

At the time I was able to educate a lot of people about the basic science of the storm and the levees and the importance of not messing with natural shorelines, but looking back I realize how downright obsessive I was. I barely ate or slept for about 5 days. Work was a MAJOR inconvenience to me.

I actually started looking into taking a meteorology course and getting into the field. Perfect career change for an event planner, right? (yeah, I plan events for people – will discuss that another time on another thread)

Now I still check the radar instead of the weather network, and I do pop onto NOAA to see what hurricanes are coming, and still have occasional dreams of going storm chasing, but I definitely played out the intensity of that particular hyper-focus.

Wow, what the hell took me so long to realize that there was something bigger going on in my brain?? The signs have been lit in neon for a long time now!

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