kicking puppies is bad

I’m not sure why I continue to fill out those silly PeanutLab surveys to earn OkCupid Activity points. I’m sure part of the reason is that I am bored at work. My job isn’t always intellectually stimulating and there are *always* excuses for not doing work…

Regardless of the reason, I *do* continue to fill out those silly surveys and I continue to acquire OkCupid Activity points at an alarming rate. In fact, it is becoming some sort of weird obsession. And now I have 1850 points (enough points for ~4.6 more months of ad free OkCupid browsing). And there isn’t anything else I can do with the points. And I still feel compelled to fill out more of these stupid surveys. I am gaining points at a much faster rate than I can use them.

And it isn’t just OkCupid Activity points that I feel compelled to earn and save. I have 342 (pretty worthless) Red Cross Blood Donation points. Of course, that is slightly different. I give blood because I work at a hospital and I think it is the right thing to do**. And because I get free movie passes each time I give blood. But in all honesty, I now have a pile of movie passes because I really don’t go to the movies. That is what Netflix is for. So I have lots of movie passes. And a lot of Blood Donation Points. And I keep acquiring more. It “costs” 10 points for a raffle ticket to win a pizza a week for a year. I could get 34.2 raffle tickets. And then (if I won) I wouldn’t have to grocery shop for a year (except to pick up gummi bears – because life would be *so* sad without gummi bears). But for some reason I don’t spent the points. I don’t enter the pizza raffles. And now I have 342 blood points, and the number continues to rise.

I’m not weird and obsessive about collecting *actual* things. I’m not one of those crazy people who saves old paper towel rolls or bottle caps. In fact, I don’t really collect any *actual* things

I didn’t actually mean to “collect” the OkCupid points. If there was something to spend them on, I might do it. Maybe. Probably. But there isn’t. So I should stop filling out the surveys. But I don’t. I feel compelled to continue filling them out – even though I realize it is ridiculous. Sigh…

**Actually I have horribly mixed emotions about this because of some issues I have with the Red Cross, but that is a completely different story.