Midweek Journal

Sometimes I think I spend too much time in front of a computer.

In the past two days, I wrote 221 individually addressed e-mails inviting individuals to take a short survey. It’s for a paper that I have to give at the end of August. I hadn’t planned on spending so much time this month sending out those stupid letters.

Digging up these e-mail addresses and keeping track of these e-mails turned out to be much more difficult than I expected. Also, individually addressing the letters increased my response rate enormously, though it added one more step to this process.  I’m giving myself until the end of the month to finish sending out the requests. That means that I’m not going to have much time writing a beautiful paper. The paper is going to be a finding dump without enough analysis. The findings are super interesting, however, so I hope that will be enough for the conference.

This morning, I stole away for the gym for an hour while Ian was in summer school. In the afternoon, Ian colored in Moose A. Moose on the Noggin website, while I did the stupid e-mails.

I need to get away from the computer a bit this summer and read a book or something. Actually, my whole family spends too much time on the computer. We’ve begun blocking out time on the weekend as technology-free zones. We have a vacation to Cape Cod coming up in August, and I’m vaguely hoping for some lazy, book-readin’ time.

While I haven’t had a chance to read anything fun for myself, I have been reading good stuff to the kids.  Next post… kids books.