Day 6

So, today I'm bored.  But I don't think I'd be any less bored if I was scrolling through Facebook.  It'd be the same mindless scrolling, looking for something to keep my attention for the next 5 hours until I can go home.

The truth is, yesterday went by pretty quickly.  I passed the time by emailing with friends (I'm having a pretty intense discussion with one friend via email about which Republican candidate would be the best for Israel), and Buzzfeed was full of fun articles to read.  I rediscovered a website called freerice.org that donates 10 grains of rice to a hungry person for every question you get right in their quizzes.  I've mostly been playing with English vocabulary, French vocab, and struggling through identifying countries based on their landmarks or flags.  I'm pretty ignorant of the world, as it turns out.  And, a few students came by to visit so I spent time talking with them as well.

I think the key to yesterday was that I actually went outside and met a friend for lunch.  So I wasn't sitting at my computer desk for 8 hours straight, trying to entertain myself. 

Now that my personal Facebook profile is deactivated, I'm getting a lot of invites and messages to my professional profile.  I'm trying my best to ignore them, and to avoid scrolling through the Newsfeed, and I actually wish people would just leave me alone and that I could avoid seeing the things that are posted.  I've actually been able to maintain a sense of calm by not logging into Facebook, and I'm trying to figure out how I can further isolate my professional account so that I can keep this sense of calm even when I have to post for work.

I'm definitely much more even tempered throughout the day, not distracted by articles or comments, and not consistently thinking about the things that people have said that I disagree with, or the things that I have said that people might respond negatively about.  So far so good...