Thing #6

"Addicted much?", was the the question I was asked as my somewhat nosy French teacher neighbor passed by my room this morning. "Just doing an assignment", I reassured her as I failed to turn and give her my attention. I was reading a blog by David Warlick dealing with Starbucks and "the impoverished civic life." It was after she had entered her classroom and began getting ready for her day that I realized that I hadn't even had a humorous comeback. "Have I become addicted?", I asked myself. All this new information has been presented to me in such a short amount of time that it's all I can think about. I'm losing sleep thinking about all the cool new RSS sites I could be adding to my Google Reader. I don't know if I can take much more... Oh look, here's a blog on blog addicts and one on Attention Deficit Disorder. My point... I guess my point would be that as I have read through many of the blogs posted on the internet, there is no end to the amount of information that can be attained by merely seeking it. One blog discussed how scientists are contemplating posting their research results on the web for anyone to see. Though I love the idea of young scientists going out and making a name for themselves by learning vicariously through others. I also know that many of my greatest lessons were learned by failure.