It is the start of Holy Week and this is my new blog.

I quit Livejournal and the Internettwo months ago in frustration with the kinds of vocal abuse and futillity of internet communities and the text based paradigm we are presently living in. I felt, and still do, that life is better lived that spent entirely in front of a screen, wether that screen is a computer or a TV itstill adds up to the same thing in the end, a serious and surreal type of addiction.

I spent all of lent trying to define my relationship to the web, and to figure out how much time I would spend on this computer. My conclusion, as near as I've come to one any way, is that I like blogging and that I would like to continue doing so, hence this journal. Also I need to use the internet for the work that I do editing a monthly Catholic Worker zine. But the things I need to watch are my news intake, my participation in online forums, and how much time I spend on MSN messenger. I have not set any new or hard, fast rules about this but I believe that in time that will get sorted out.