so, cue the A&E Intervention music (catch it on youtube if you can, they have most episodes on there), but i think i’m addicted to the internet. if that last sentence doesn’t convince you, how about the stupid amount of hours i spend each day surfing sites for godknowswhat.

i’ve never kept track of the hours i spend online, but in an average day you can bet i spend at least a half hour on the following sites: apartmenttherapy, design*sponge, dooce, twitter, facebook, decor8, rarebirdfinds, failblog, fark and the numerous sites it points to. there are also a bunch of other sites that i will check in on periodically and are too many to mention. my point being: i know how to surf. i use to use stumbleupon to find new sites, but quickly became overwhelmed because my roster of daily websites (dailies as jeremy affectionately calls it) made the extra surfing too much. did that sentence make sense? i hope so.

this problem only got worse when i got the iphone. now, with the help of AT&T internet wherever i go, i am ensured full internet coverage. while it has helped me out in many a jam (navigating manhattan from the east village to the bronx in 50 mins in a 17′ uhaul, CHUMPS!) some people have started to get annoyed at the amount of websurfery in their presence. it’s like a tic now. i thought it would alleviate some of the surfing i did at home, but it only made the number of sites that i surf larger. 

i wish i knew how to stop, but there is such a wealth of knowledge out there and there are so many entertaining sites that i don’t think i can. i rationalize with myself that because i don’t watch tv this is okay; is it? (was that the proper use of a semi-colon?) it is where i get a lot of my inspiration but also distracts me from a lot of the productive stuff i need to do in my day. 

sigh.

internet, i love you!