Anyway

Fig­ur­ing out how best to spend “spare” time (that not alloc­ated to work­ing, sleep­ing, eat­ing, and the oth­er neces­sary daily activ­it­ies) is always a conun­drum. Do I read blogs, or write my own entries? Do I knit, or surf Ravelry? Do I watch TV, or read books? The pen­du­lum has recently been swinging too far in the wrong dir­ec­tion; I’ve been con­sum­ing more than cre­at­ing, tak­ing the easy, pass­ive way out to filling those spare minutes rather than think­ing about what I really want to achieve with them. It’s so easy to just “check what’s out there”, intend­ing it to be for a few minutes only, and find­ing the time stretches, like some ver­sion of Par­kin­son’s law, so that I’ve accom­plished noth­ing at the end of the even­ing. If I can­’t remem­ber what I’ve browsed, then was it worth read­ing? How much time should I spend on catch­ing up on what people I don’t know think? 

So, my plan is to think about my activ­it­ies more. If surf­ing, or read­ing feeds or tweets, then to do so delib­er­ately, rather than drift­ing along for lack of think­ing about what I’d really rather be doing. I’ll try to use my judge­ment more often, in oth­er words, to close the com­puter and spend more time with the world that’s phys­ic­ally present. Unless I decide that I feel like aim­lessly drift­ing through the Web, of course. 

I won­der how long I’ll keep this up?