something is wrong

The latest from my online browsing: "Use Google Calendar to Schedule Relaxation".

I had an almost visceral reaction to that headline this morning. If life has reached the point where you have to block off time from 8:15 to 8:45 Tuesday morning to read poetry, then you're screwed in some fundamental way.

What if you only made it part way through The Rime of the Ancient Mariner at 8:45? Do you put it down or take 10 more minutes to finish it? Do you stress out about the minute you lost thinking about what to do? Did you process the last 5 minutes of reading or was your mind already thinking about the meeting scheduled right after your poetry session?

Then again, it's Sunday morning, and I'm sitting at work. Who has the fundamental problem to own up to?