I’m about to check out – or have already checked out, because it’s currently running – a piece of software that disconnects you from the internets for an amount of time of your choosing.

I’m an internet addict. I have an addictive personality to begin with: cigarettes being the worst. But the internet comes in a close second. In fact, while I was on the Freedom webpage (can’t link to it because, obviously, I’m not online right now (I’m using MarsEdit to create this post offline)) I got sucked into reading all their links to the press they’ve gotten. And so, ten online minutes had passed without my noticing them, just after the moment I’d decided to go offline. That’s addiction.

I want to be a writer again, so I’m using Freedom. Let’s hope it works.