stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it’s trying to teach but i’ve taught myself to hand make lace so all is well
Things to do when you’re stuck in a time loop
- Learn to knit and crochet
- Learn a musical instrument. If you don’t have access to a piano or guitar or flute or whatever, learn to play the spoons.
- Got internet? Learn a foreign language.
- No internet? Teach yourself how to start a fire with sticks and a string.
- Practice painting. If you don’t have access to paints, a canvas, etc, learn to use fingernail polish to make patterns. (“But I have no art skills!” Look, if you spend 3-8 hours a day on it for a few years, you can develop art skills.)
- Learn to sew. Make yourself some amazing costumes that will last for a whole 4 hours until your day resets.
- Might as well learn to use a slide rule while you’re at it. Practice complex math without a calculator.
- Read all that stuff on your TBR list. (Note: You may not have access to a lot of books. Best to keep your phone or ereader packed with stuff you want to read someday, in case you wind up in a time loop.)
- Memorize a favorite passage from a book. Then another one. Memorize a whole favorite book - just keep reading it aloud until it snaps into place.
- Write academic papers, post them on turnitin.com. Post the same papers again tomorrow. Keep doing this until you get a warning that the whole paper is plagiarized. Post another paper that explains your time loop situation so the guy who’s been detangling their time-fucked database entries can find you and get you out of the time loop.
Loving the implication that the only entities in the world that don’t completely reset every time at the end of this time loop are 1. You, and 2. the Turnitin website
This suggests, to me, that the Turnitin site is somehow the cause of how time got screwed up for you (which is why you must seek it out in order to escape the loop)
Analogy, perhaps, to how Ned Ryerson’s insurance company was (in my own analysis) most likely the sinister force behind the time loop in Groundhog Day