One minute you’re looking for a clever synonym for “useless” on thesaurus.com, and click, click, click … suddenly three hours have gone by and you’ve lived the word in any number of ways: you’ve watched nine previews for movies that won’t be in theaters for another six months, you’ve taken a quiz to see if your boyfriend might really be a narcissist, you’ve looked at the red carpet snapshots of the best- and worst-dressed at the Oscars going back three years, you’ve read an obscure article about the Estonian synchronized swimming team, you’ve tweeted about how inspiring those Estonians really are, you’ve checked flight costs to Rio in the event you decide to cheer on the Estonians in 2016, and you’ve connected with three new people on Facebook that you think you knew in preschool. And if you’re like me, you did all that when you could have and should have been playing outside with your son. I’ve tried to curb my surfing/email/Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest addiction, really I have.
