An excerpt from an article I read last night in The Week, a recap of the best of U.S. and international news under Health & Science:

The flood of e-mails, cell-phone calls, and text messages that bombard modern workers can lower their IQs twice as many points as smoking marijuana, a new study says. Researchers at the University of London found that trying to work while checking messages temporarily knocks about 10 points off a person’s IQ. (Smoking marijuana, by contrast, results in a loss of four IQ points.)

There you have it. Enough said. I knew there was a reason I no longer stay dialed into the internet all day.

On other fronts of information overload, I realized yesterday that we get over 15 magazines a month at this house. All very interesting–well, that’s a lie, I find Kiplingers a dead bore but in a moment of misguided ambition decided I should be more money savvy and ordered it, but really, it doesn’t get much page turning–but it’s a lot of information to take in (not a single decorating or fashion mag in the bunch). Oops. Rolling Stone just came in the post and I’d forgotten about it, so now we’re 16+.

I could go on to talk about the month of May–Field Day, Talent show, Chorus performance, choir performances, soccer games, teacher’s gifts, Honors Day, costumes for talent show and chorus performance, summer camp registrations, and a book due on the last day of school–I could talk about those things but I fear I’d be speaking in whine-ese, so it’s best if I just don’t really mention all of that. :confused:

After working with a computer guy for about an hour yesterday, we determined that my chapter can’t be recovered….so, I’m going to turn off my phones, log off the internet, and get to work. God knows I don’t need to further lower my already compromised IQ.

Jen