Lately, despite any evidence of such in THIS blog, most of my free time has been spent in front of a computer. Typically, my day looks like this:
1. Drag my exhausted self out of bed
2. Turn on computer as I walk past towards the bathroom
3. Return to the computer and log-on to messenger
4. Foolishly wait for someone to message me… which they don’t so I begin to check all my regular haunts
5. Check the beach weather
6. Check the weather in all my favorite cities; including a few I’ve never been to…don’t ask!
7. If it’s Monday read Timothy McSweeney’s lists and muse to myself that I could come up with a better list
8. Secretely wonder if World Wide Pants is behind those lists… or vice versa
9. Check out what Ms. Nerdy and Ms. Meta are up to
10. If I’m blue, which I typically am thanks to item number 4, read In Passing.
11. Round it all up with a trip to the Salon, coming home with Kottke in my plastic bag
And this is all within the first half hour of being awake. Now there are obvious problems with this little list. The first is, it isn’t going to make McSweeney’s! The second is, NOWHERE in there was room made for coffee. Terrible! But my real issue, is that this is what most of my day looks like. Once I end up this round of clicking I hop into email and sit and wait! NOT GOOD. The unfortunate reality is… it’s become a phenonmenal waste of time. 12 days into the “Summer” and I basically look at my computer, work, look at my computer, pass out from looking at my computer. I’m beginning to glow green.
So, last night…. FLASHBULB moment. I’ve been kicking around the idea of packing up my computer for my little move on July 4th (gives new meaning to Independence Day, trust me!). I’ll wait for the shock to abate. (This space designated for waiting——————————) Ok… the reality is that I can’t do that of course! I need it to work, and well, how else would I tell time? Not to mention, I don’t think I could live without the ONE live human being who actually deposits unsolicited email into my hotmail account. (Missy is a hoot… and I love ya, Girly!) But, I am seriously going on a diet! The good news is…it should mean that I have more free time to really do things OUTSIDE this box… and that should result in more interesting blogs more often. How cool is that? Ok… Now don’t point out that blogging is more time on the computer, because I’ve already dismissed that notion, and I don’t really want to revisit it or your supreme logic. (and I reserve the right to still check the beach weather every morning. Come on, it’s a given!)
