Time lost.

I hate those days when I have plans to get a lot done, but then circumstances beyond my control take over. I wake up feeling under the weather or my computer crashes. Such inconveniences can eat up valuable hours. And it sucks.

No time like the present...

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin

I'm one of those people who is always ridiculously busy. There is rarely ever down time for me, as long as I have deadlines that keep pummeling towards me, I'm productive. I can get a lot done in a short period of time.

When I do have down time (or take down time) I feel like that time is squandered, because I am not getting anything done.

Am I turning into a workaholic?

I like living to deadlines though. I don't know that I would enjoy just sitting around.

A crazy wacky world.

There are about 540,000 words in the English language, which is five times as many words as there were in Shakespeare's time, according to Richard Saul Wurman, author of Information Anxiety.

You can thank science and technology for this.

Wurman also says a week's worth of New York Times contains more information than someone in the 17th century was likely to come across in a lifetime.

In one year, an average person will read 3,000 notices and forms, read 100 newspapers and 36 magazines, watch 2,463 hours of television, listen to 730 hours of radio, talk on the telephone for 61 hours and read three books.

Add to that what you read on the Internet and it gets pretty crazy.