My goodness.  Tonight, I just realized that email, Facebook, blog-reading, and my own website (and its comments) are my soma.  I have it all set up to check through my iGoogle page.  But my routine everyday when I sit down at the computer is this: check my website for any comments, check iGoogle and go through email, Facebook, and any blogs I haven’t read yet.  And then I check my Fantasy Hockey team to see how many points my players have scored.  And sometimes I click through all these things every few minutes when I’m home.

You see, my internet world has become really small.  I hardly visit websites that aren’t linked from my own website.  I subscribe to a limited number of blogs.  My Facebook has been scaled back, almost to the point that I’m seriously considering leaving it.

Somehow my brain has grown accustomed to the act of clicking my mouse and receiving affirmation from emails and notifications.  It’s the soma that I feed on when I am bored, stressed, or without anything better to do (seemingly).  It all feels so robotic.  Somehow it doesn’t feel right.  Do you ever get to this point?  Because in a few weeks, I think it’s going to drive me crazy.  I need to get out.