Where all my time goes

I am, like millions of other wasted souls out there, seriously addicted to the Internet. I can easier squander two hours or more doing nothing other than randomly surfing. You'd at least hope that in doing so much reading every day, I would at least be learning a hell of a lot. But the truth is, half of the time I'm not convinced I even remember what I've been looking at. It just goes in one..um...eye...and out the other. I thought it might be interesting to check out a random sample of my surfing history, so below is a list of every 10th page I've visited for the last two days. Let's see what junk I've been looking at. 1 The chocolate connoisseur's website, fair enough I do like chocolate. I was looking at the reviews of their highest rate bars. I might order some, but the cost of shipping here is twice as much as the chocolate. 2 Not a photo of a dead man in Phoenix, by a photographer who keeps a blog detailing pictures that he wishes he had taken, and opportunities missed. 3 Another one, not of two guys having a fight over a hat. 4 kottke.org - the starting point of many a pointless surfing session. 5 The page editor of Blogger. 6 Blogger log in. 7 A torrent search for Santana - which I ended up not downloading 8 An Amazon review for Yo La Tengo - which I did end up downloading and am listening to now. 9 A google search for a band called Hotel Lights; a song by them which I'd never heard before came onto my itunes and I wanted to know who they were (the drummer used to be in Ben Folds Five). 10 A message board for Disturbia, a new PG13 movie based on Hitchcock's Rear Window. 11 Google news 12 Notes for an upcoming Linguistics and cognitive science lecture. 13 Searching for an old episode of Buffy to watch online while I wait for Christa to get her ass out of bed so we go out for pizza as planned. 14 Before Buffy I had been looking for a movie. 15 I don't know how I got onto this, but I ended up reading all about the American (and Canadian) fraternity and soriety system. 16 The Alexander Technique - since my posture sucks and I was after some tips to improve it. Which I didn't find here. 17 & 18 The Wikipedia articles on press ups and sit ups - I've decided I need to start doing more (ie. some) exercise, so I naturally had to research the matter first. 19 & 20 A couple of blogs about the Korean language. 21 A news article on the massive damage done to coral reef after a recent Indonesian earthquake. 22 Doug's Concert Crisis - I can only imagine I chanced upon this via Wikipedia's 'random article' button, as I have no idea what it is. 23 A site about Vietnam - which I don't remember seeing before. 24 An finally, an email from one of the kids that was here last week, Ken:

Teacher!!

What is Margaret e-mail?

Sorry!! more e-mail....sorry~!!

Good bye~!

(And spookily, he's just emailed me again this very second). Anyway, point is that too much time is wasted unproductively. So new resolutions (although shouldn't call them that as bound to jinx it) are: less internet, and to make time every day for a minimum of 10 minutes exercise, a little art, even if only a quick sketch or doodle, and I'm gonna start taking a daily photo again. I'm not promising a daily blog, but I will attempt go for at least one weekly entry. And it's 22:37 pm, and I haven't done any of this yet, so gotta go!