* I'm a lot more cheerful, easygoing, and creative! That's the good news.
* The bad news is that I have no atten... That's not quite true. I seem to have, uh, reset to my natural state. Which involves a beepload of borderline-ADHD symptoms. And... I need to pick up the self-discipline to handle them, which I never developed because I always self-medicated with several glasses of caffeinated beverages a day.
* I've concluded this is going to force me to make twice-daily lists, because I devoutly obey lists for... about half a day. *sighs* Hopefully, when I get into the habit, I'll be able to move it down to daily lists. (Or maybe even weekly lists! Joy!)
* I'm also going to have to figure out how much I can do and decide what, of my favorite procrastination options/self-taught-studies/online activities/all-of-the-above, I can actually fit into my life. ...I can't breeze through things any more, and I can't rely on caffeine to give me an artificial attention span to compensate for my laziness. ...And I don't like to admit that, but I'm having to face that. ...*literal facepalm* Yes, it's taken me this long to acquire basic life skills. I... Yes, I'm not the fastest person in any room...

Provided that I can manage these things, it will be worth it - because my brain is finally moving out of the rut of repeating the same things again and again, which I believe was fueled by the caffeine. (*grimaces* I hope so, at any rate. Let it be known that, while it may seem unpleasant to be around one of those people who seem stuck on repeating certain thoughts over and over again, it's even more unpleasant to be one of those people.))

*mutters* **** it. If I get through this, I am going to systemize a way of dealing with short attention spans. There will be lists, there will be numbers, and there will be blank day-planner charts attached if I'm feeling hyperactive while I'm doing that.

Anyway! Off to bed for now...

Incidentally, thanks again to a certain member of my f-list for pointing me towards that Totally Captioned thread. If I'm recreating my train of thought correctly, a link there pointed me to a Legend of Dragoon reference, which made me wander back to fanfiction.net, which made me start seriously thinking about Legend of Dragoon for the first time in a while, which rebooted my fandom-brain a bit and mostly made me stop thinking about damn HP all the time. New [old] fandoms are always nice. :P :)