I more or less started this thing last night. So with the exception of one last wistful look at the comments sections of Unfogged this morning, I've been successfully abstaining from the Internet for almost 20 hours now (minus the exceptions noted in the original post).
The day somehow seemed longer, slower, more meditative. I took a walk, spontaneously bought flowers for my wife (for the first time in a while), cleaned the apartment, picked up the laundry, vacuumed the apartment, listened to music, exercised, did the grocery shopping, invited friends over for dinner, cleaned up the kitchen, backed up my computer, and am about to start prepping my class for tomorrow, before I make a late dinner for my wife. Not once did I interrupt any of this with repeated visits to Boing Boing, Metafilter, Overheard in New York, or any of the many political sites listed on the blogroll. I have no idea what is going on in the world, since I didn't buy a paper today. It's, like, all Zen and shit, man.
God, what a horrible experiment. I can't wait to get my life back.
Posted by Chris at April 10, 2005 07:49 PMWasn't there an episode of Seinfeld about this?
Posted by: Anne at April 11, 2005 02:11 AMI'm the master of my own DNS.
Posted by: Chris at April 11, 2005 08:13 AMflowers??? vacuuming???? laundry?????? grocery shopping?????? making dinner????????
spring fever! OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh yeah, and i worked on my thesis.
Posted by: Not Chris at April 11, 2005 10:34 AMYOWZA!
Posted by: Kegri at April 11, 2005 02:16 PMKegri, I'd expect Nick to be this excited about Spring cleaning but not you, you slob.
Not Chris, yeah, well, that must be why they call you "Not Chris". I didn't say I would give up procrastinating all at once.
Posted by: Chris at April 11, 2005 03:31 PM