Yes, I know, I have been terribly remiss about posting on my blog lately.\u00a0 It’s all\u00a0about screen time:\u00a0 I spend about nine hours a day at work staring at a computer screen, and when I get home, I hate to spend too much more time in front of a computer screen.<\/p>\n
Ok, so it’s about screen time AND self-control:\u00a0 I should be able to just turn on my laptop for fifteen minutes to write a blog post, but it’s\u00a0so tempting to just check Facebook (which I actually hate) and then just check my email (far too much work to actually answer <\/em>any emails, though) and then just check my work email (as if I hadn’t just left work) and then just check the Garnet Hill sale of the day…and then the entire evening is gone and I feel like I’ve wasted my life.\u00a0 And, more often than not, I never got around to writing that blog post after all.<\/p>\n I see this pattern with the kids who come to the library after school.\u00a0 They all race here to be the first on the computer (each user gets a half hour on the computer before being bumped for people on the waitlist) and then they slump down in front of the computer and mindlessly play computer games.\u00a0 Yes, I slump too.\u00a0 Yes, my web surfing is just as mindless as the computer game playing.\u00a0 The difference is that I’m a bit older and I grew up without computers – and I am beginning to feel more than a bit mortal and don’t want to waste what’s left of my outside-of-work life in front of the computer.<\/p>\n So I made a goal for myself around the time I broke my foot, mostly because it’s hard to balance a laptop on your lap when you have to keep your foot elevated (which I had to do for eight weeks).\u00a0 The goal, which I have achieved, was to spend more time reading in the evenings.\u00a0 It’s been absolutely wonderful – I’ve had time to read books other than the books I need to read for book groups.\u00a0 I’ve rediscovered Agatha Christie, and now I’m ready to rediscover some of my favorite authors: Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne.<\/p>\n But it’s time for me to add a new goal to this goal of reading; it’s time for me to spend fifteen minutes a night writing on my blog…and then to exercise that thing called self-restraint and Turn Off The Bloody Computer so that I can read.<\/p>\n What do you think? Can I\u00a0do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I know, I have been terribly remiss about posting on my blog lately.\u00a0 It’s all\u00a0about screen time:\u00a0 I spend about nine hours a day at work staring at a computer screen, and when I get home, I hate to spend too much more time in front of a computer screen. Ok, so it’s about … Continue reading Screen Time<\/span>