Tuesday, September 16, 2003
(8:28 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Internet Addiction
My enrollment at CTS has corresponded with a horrible relapse into outright internet addiction. Between the blogosphere, various discussion boards, checking my website every five minutes or so for comments, talking on instant messenger for hours, and checking my bank balance (but not reconciling it with my checkbook), I have clearly turned back into my Olivet self. Thankfully, though, I do have some hope -- now that I've finally gotten my radio antenna back, I can once again listen to NPR constantly, which will hopefully satisfy my desire for radical left-wing propaganda and deeply slanted "news." I also just got a new Harper's, so maybe I'll be so eager to read it that the Internet will seem lacking by comparison.
Or maybe I'll continue, in my charmingly neurotic way, to set up artificial obstacles to keep me from achieving my "official" goals, so that later I can have the pleasure of complaining about not achieving them or fantasizing about how great it would be to achieve them.