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| Nerio |
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| Morizyan Deadlight wrote: |
| Ether is your friend... remember that. |
LMAO Mori...
Well..as we all know. My wife and I both play in Midian. So...there's how I balance spending time with my wife in IRL...my kids are teens and pretty much do their own thing now and take care of themselves so..yeah |
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| Angel Slocombe |
| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Up until a couple of weeks ago I was quite happy with my RL/SL balance, then I moved in with my BF and it has become something of a genuine issue coupled with the other stress related symptoms I suffer from.
I would love for him to come and join in but he hasn't the patience for roleplay and is much more of a RL social animal than myself ... hence less time for me in SL and more stress.
It'll sort itself out in time. . right?? *looks hopeful*
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| theshadow |
| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:43 am Post subject: |
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*pets Angel*
I could give words of wisdom, but uh... No one ever listens to those anyways... ^_^ |
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| Golyth Carillon |
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hehehe We've all shared our moments of high stress and zero RP time so I am sure what you are going through right now can be related to. Besides haha could be worse... Could work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and have two kids  By the time I get home the last thing I wanna do is stare at a PC lol
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| Atmlady Alcott |
| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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I must confess I consider myself very fortunate that it has never been a problem for me to balance RL and SL.
As much as I do enjoy my time here, I do have obligations that occupy my time and thus have to meet them. Then when I have the chance, I can enjoy my time here, as I am free from worrying about what I should have been doing. |
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| Satomi Ashbourne |
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| Golyth Carillon wrote: |
| *blinks a few times* There's life outside Midian?!?!?!?! I didn't get the memo.... bastages.. |
*sounding like a valley girl* Life outside Midian? You mean, like, where, like, our things come from?
I can't remember when I last left Midian for reasons other than buying some prop or visiting a Midian citizen's house.  |
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| Mordag McCallen |
| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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What a tricky question.
8 hours of working time daily.
1 hour consumed by maintaining my life (eating, you know)
2-3 hours used by my other hobbies
3-5 hours consumed by another useless maintenance of life (sleeping)
Well, there is about 7-10 more hours to devide to SL, relationships, friends, family, other games (computer or real, doesnt matter) or catching some more of my life maintenance when it downs on me. This all totaly random.
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| J8 Skall |
| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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I can't believe you can keep that up Mordag.
I spend 9 hours working (this included travel times) at university, and my course does actually require that kind of work.
Then I spend about 9 Hours sleeping.
Takes me another hour to get up, and one more for stuff like eating.
Leaving 4 to mess around... Which currently is chatting, writing, watchign DVDs and working out.
I couldn't function on 3 hours sleep as a matter of course I have no doubt.
Might be interesting ya'know to see what people's other hobbies are in some random thread, which I'm currently too tired to post (only got 8 hours sleep  )
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| Mordag McCallen |
| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I cannot believe it either, but ia m going by saying:
"You can slep enough when in grave"
Of course this kind of life returns on you...
First, if I stop for a while and get bored, I ll start falling asleep, so I best find something else to catch on.
Second, sometimes it happens that it catches me and then I spend all my free time by leveling the sleep debt. Not too often though.
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| J8 Skall |
| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yay, start my morning (which is now afternoon - I slept in) with a morbid thought why don'tcha?
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| AlegriaDagostino |
| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Well...husband of 8 years, three kids 5, 4 and 2...and my 5 year old is autistic. Currently in my house is also my mother, sister (they're always here, we share the property) and my SIL and niece and nephew are here indefinitely while she looks for work and my brother packs up their house in Chicago. I volunteer two mornings a week in my 4 year old's preschool, have meals for 7 to 11 people to plan and execute, am diabetic, have an ailing husband...but you know...life is tough for everyone in their own ways. SL is my escape. And while some days it may seem I'm logged in non-stop, often the case is to type out a post, then hop up from the computer and go take care of something in the house...come back, post again, etc. When that scene is done, I go AFK awhile, do the mommy thing, come back later.
I do get some peace...my oldest is in his school 5 hours a day, and the youngest naps 2 hours.
Then there's my husband...He's never been wild about SL and up until recently hated my RPing. He's starting to see the value it has for me, though, and is actually joining the ranks as Al's IC fiancee.
There is more to SL than just Midian for me, too. I just finished building an OOC house from scratch, (it'll be IC home eventually)...I just love tobuild. If I had more time I'd sell prefabs.
Anyway, it's a balance. I know RL is always first, but there are times I enjoy the obligations of a RP sim like Midian.
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| nekodui |
| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Balancing Midian and Real Life |
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Another grid shutdown so it's time for another random post 
I'm curious how our collection of excellent role-players and/or Midian addicts balance life in the real world and life in Midian. Getting involved in the ongoing stories obviously can take up a lot of time. Any tricks, tips, stories, or random comments? |
Weeelll... Midian is just another place as far as I'm concerned. I'm either working or playing (and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference) and Midian is just one place I 'play'. If there's nothing going on there, or something more fun or pressing or time limited, then I'm in RL. If there's nothing in RL, then I'm there. It's sure a heck of a lot cheaper to visit someone in SL with gas prices being what they are
Looking at it from another perspective, I have a lot of TV watching friends that say, 'how can you spend all that time online?' I don't see it as any worse than parking in front of the TV. At least I'm being stimulated and required to participate...vs. another episode of Lost? no thanks.
Balance is just a matter of knowing that the RL stuff has to get done or I'll be unemployed there won't be any TV or SL. Oh, and when the kid is with me (50% of the time) and awake, I'm not on the computer unless she is. |
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| Debra Charron |
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Meh, my big struggle is that RL I work a schedule that is tough to sync up with other peoples. 7 days out of every 14, I work roughly a 14-hour duty-day (my team pulls 12's, I have to be there an hour before and after them taking care of handoffs with ongoing/offgoing leaders and "thrilling" admin stuff). Anyway, on days I work I'm lucky if I can make it on from 6:30pm SLT till about 8:30pm SLT, the payoff is that the other 7 days out of the 14-day cycle, I can be on a LOT.......unless the kids are out of school or I get kidnapped into the black hole of "staff meetings" or "planning sessions" back at work.
I'm lucky that my online relationship is with someone who can accomodate my odd schedule (going on 3 years now) - and who also haunts Midian. That makes it a lot easier for me to be here.
I keep my RL obligations pretty well contained to work and doing things with my children. My job is pretty all-consuming and of itself has been a great destroyer of relationships (when people finally learn that you really *will* climb out of bed and head in to work for emergencies - no matter what horizontal activities are going on - it kind of palls the relationship). I have zero intentions of ever getting married again - but.... I'm on a six-year countdown till I hit my magic number of years and call it a career. Maybe after I get "worky" out of my hair and the kids are grown, I'll have time for something else ;-D
Yep..I'm one of those "I *am* my job" kinda people.
So...managing SL is not a huge issue for me. Work keeps me pretty out of touch with that "other" place anyway, so I don't miss it much
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| Leah_Jun |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: Re: Balancing Midian and Real Life |
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| Masha Eilde |
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