The Difficulty of Leisure

As much as I am considered part of the ‘technological generation’ I have started to find it very difficult to keep up with everything.
I wake up in the morning and connect to the internet; then the fun begins. First, I check my hotmail account, and then move on to the Yahoo! Account, the University webmail is next and finish nicely with a Facebook update. Now this is fifteen minutes of my morning that I will never get back, the problem is if I don’t check I may miss something in between all of the junk that actually happens to be important.
The idea of technology and a World Wide Web is to make our lives easier, but more often than not I find myself getting up early just so I can check all of these various mediums.
However, all deadlines have passed for a couple of weeks equalling a break from work, so in order to make the most of this time I will unplug the laptop, let the emails build up and set my MSN profile to ‘away’ and make the most of some time without the pressures of an easy life.