Day 5 without a pop blog

I've stumbled into 23/ Go one week without visiting a pop blog.

Last Friday, I declared I'd do it: I am simply too persuaded by the lives of others. I see a thin so-and-so and want to be like her. Instead of wanting to be like me. I am perfectly wonderful, so I'm not sure exactly what I'm thinking. Clearly I have a problem.

So there I went and started on No. 23.

What I've found is that I'm not particularly pining for the pop-culture content. Nevertheless, I have to try very hard not to visit my regular sites. My conclusion: There are several times during my day that I am flat-out bored. And what I have done over the past, oh, several years, is visit these sites to fill in the gaps.

These are gaps in my brain! That I'm filling with celebrity trivia!

Now, I truly don't have anything against keeping in touch with pop culture. And when I finish No. 23 (and then No. 24: going a month without the blogs), I'll likely resume visiting them on some kind of regular basis.

The thing is, I need to pay heed to the fact that over and over, I turn my brain to something not very productive at all when I could be using my gaps to do something intellectual/energizing/helpful/enriching. If, at least sometimes, I forgo the blogs for whatever those things end up being, then Nos. 23 and 24 will have served a higher purpose, and my life will be ever so more robust because of it.