Happy Thanksgiving! After talking so much about two of tenets of getting out of overdrive—taking a media fast and having unstructured time—I decided to put both to the test. On the night before Thanksgiving, I shut off (!) my computer. At first, I tried to cheat because my music is also on my computer, but I realized it was futile to try and outsmart myself. So that left me with no computer plus a lot of quietness. I realized how many times I unconsciously go to the office to check email; simply checking my email would lead to something else, and an hour later I'd still be working/sending messages/surfing around. It turns out that, with my computer off, I used that time to sleep! I feel like I caught up on a year of sleep. I slept every time I hit a horizontal surface, whether it was the couch, bed, or even the floor. I didn't plan much, either, and it turned out to be a wonderful four days.
I'm going to be on an east coast radio program called Women's Room. You can listen to it Thursday, December 7th at 2 pm Pacific Time on WGLS on a program called Women's Room; go to
http://wgls.rowan.edu/ and then click on the Live Streaming link. If you miss it, it will be archived on this site in the archives department.
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