Cure for E-mail addiction

Are you addicted? Want to be cured? Here are some ways to cure E-mail addiction...

Written on Tuesday, October 27th

• Try to cut down the number of times you check your E-mail to only 20 per day. Yes, I know this will not be easy in the beginning, but it is an essential first step in combating E-mail addiction. And don't leave yourself logged in all day either--that's cheating!



• Install electronic shock devices on your keyboard that will automatically work on the 21st attempt to check your E-mail.



• Don't send more than 10 messages a day, including jokes (sniff...sniff).



• Try to go for a 20 minute walk everyday...yes, this means OUTSIDE...away from the computer.



• Try not to think about who might, at any given moment, be sending you E-mail.



• Enroll in E-MAA; E-Mail Aholics Anonymous. President of said organization would be the author of this E-mail...



• Take up a more creative, mind-enriching hobby such as knitting or underwater basket weaving.



• Don't stay home thinking you will study because you will probably start with good intentions of studying but will just end up checking your E-mail. Go to the library. And whatever you do, stay out of the computer labs!



• Set your priorities so that you have all of your studying, work and/or household chores finished before you allow yourself the luxury of checking your E-mail. One of the following will probably occur:



• You will never again have time to check your E-mail



• You will be so tired after doing all that so that you won't even want to bother with your E-mail, and thus, be miraculously cured from your E-mail addiction.



• Stay on campus and talk to friends (the human version, NOT the E-mail version), if they can remember what you look like...