Television programs or movies viewed: 0
Books read: 2 (J. Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth and M. Pollan’s In Defense of Food)
Blogs read: 50? By Wednesday, more than I wanted to. I admit I have a problem. They’re web-heroin.
Blog entries written: 0
Blog entries written in my head: 106
Actual, more-than-ten-minute-long conversations held with husband: 5? Maybe 15? Wow. We actually have deep thoughts buried in them skulls. About politics and life philosophy and what we want out of our lives in the next ten years (and that would be the usual, of course: living on a house-boat and sailing the seven seas, home schooling the boys, subsisting on fish straight from the sea, reading only local rags at ports of call for news of the world), and so on…
Number of days less annoyed with Pitter for cutting into my computer or television time: 7
After this experiment, I really think I could ditch television for the long term. Maybe we’ll do that for the summer, once the writer’s strike-delayed shows are off the air again. Clearly, the real challenge would be for me to keep the computer off, aside from work-time, completely.
Wow. Just thinking about it gives me the shivers.
I should do it. Just
not
yet.
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April 28, 2008 at 4:46 pm
ZM
Good for you! You’re a far, far better gal than I. . . Are you really thinking about homeschooling? I keep going back and forth, thinking about that myself.
April 29, 2008 at 12:59 pm
mymsie
Sounds like you’re a good candidate for Shutdown Day!
April 29, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Amy
Hey, I’ve been reading that Michael Pollan book too! But I interrupted it to read China Study first, and then Nickel and Dimed. (Sorry, not gonna fiddle with underlining and links here…)
April 29, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Sarah @ Ordinary Days
I don’t know if I could ditch tv all toghether. But in December 2006 we cut our cable and have since survived with only the basic channels and Disney channel which we somehow magically get for free. You can totally do it!