Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

If you think the time I spend blogging is a waste of time, or that you yourself might spend too much time reading crap on the internet, just check out some other people's blogs sometime. Especially unemployed writer types. They all link to each other. Then you, too, will be sucked into the sphere of time wasting. It's like sitting at work with your feet up, reading a book. You'd never do that. But the internet can make it look like you're actually working, so you don't work, ever. You just read other people's blogs and download homestarrunner cartoons and look at endlessly long photo essays and try to prove that the latest virus warning your dad sent you was a hoax and look up links for your own stupid blog. The internet has replaced water-cooler chatter and coffee breaks. Why eat lunch with your co-workers when you can eat at your desk and read The Onion? You stop having standards and find yourself reading recaps of some stupid MTV reality show that you'll never actually watch, and then one day you end up watching the stupid MTV reality show just to see what it's really like and you realize that the internet has ruined your life.

Damn you, internet! I thought you were my friend!