We’re making snacks, curling up on the couch, and watching the inauguration. I’m calling it ‘homeschool history-in-action day’.
S.A.D. is kicking my ass at the moment, which is why I haven’t posted in almost a week, lest I go emo-spew all over the place. Life is fine. I am fine. I just need to find a decent coping mechanism for, oh, the next two to three months.
But really, I’m fine. And today is a good day.
from The New York Times:
Dr. Robinson and his colleagues tried to identify what activities happy people engage in. The study relied primarily on the responses of 45,000 Americans collected over 35 years by the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, and on published “time diary” studies recording the daily activities of participants.
“We looked at 8 to 10 activities that happy people engage in, and for each one, the people who did the activities more — visiting others, going to church, all those things — were more happy,” Dr. Robinson said. “TV was the one activity that showed a negative relationship. Unhappy people did it more, and happy people did it less.”
But the researchers could not tell whether unhappy people watch more television or whether being glued to the set is what makes people unhappy. “I don’t know that turning off the TV will make you more happy,” Dr. Robinson said.
Still, he said, the data show that people who spend the most time watching television are least happy in the long run.
