I suck, yet again

Last weekend with no laptop was actually a pretty good experience, and I did feel like I was doing slightly more than before in the lab this week. The most helpful thing was to turn off my bloglines notifier. Revolutionary, I know. The problem was I ended up feeling out of touch and like I was falling behind with all your wonderful blogs. So what do I do with the long weekend? Spend it in bed reading blogs, of course!
And worse, I actually went back on IRC for the first time in a couple of years (I think, although I may have logged on briefly at some point in there). First I started IMing with one friend, then I emailed the only other IRC person I had any interest in talking to. Today he emailed back and we chatted for a bit, then he said he was back in the old chatroom and I should come say hi, so I did. It's kind of freaky, actually, how little that place has changed since I first started hanging out there 5 years ago. A lot of the same people were still there, talking about the same things with nothing different in their lives. I'd like to think I've moved on, but I'm not so sure I have. Is it any better to hide in my room talking to nobody than to do the same to make idle small talk with people I've never met? I sometimes wonder if I'm substituting blog friends for real life, the way I used to with IRC friends, but at least you're a much less dysfunctional group :) Also, I did do two sociable things on the weekend, no, three! Okay, I feel slightly better now. Although I'm studiously ignoring the fact that I was supposed to present at lab meeting tomorrow and completely forgot (I keep skipping the review part of the getting things done system...) so now I just have to hope that I can reschedule.