Late Thursday night I turned off my computer and didn't turn it on until mid-morning today, Saturday.
Cold turkey. No celebrity gossip. No weather checks around the country. No Facebook.
I didn't even entertain myself with some activity so engrossing that my mind wouldn't yearn to connect with a keyboard.
And I did yearn to walk in here and turn it on. But--and this is the part that really astonished me--it wasn't to dash off an e-mail or horn in on a Facebook conversation. I kept wanting to check things--like a new website found in a book I was reading or what EW's top ten fiction books were for 2008 or if someone was dead or not. Information. That's what I missed.
It reassures me that I am not "living" on the Internet. I just enjoy it. It felt good to check things out this morning. Other than my livelihood which does depend on electronic communication, though, I think I could survive. Not happily but I could.
Just don't expect me to give up Facebook for Lent!
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