Ignorance... it's not so bad.

I'd be obfuscating - okay, lying - if I said I weren't watching the stock market AGAIN today, even though my "money" (like the quotes? that's a new addition) remains for the most part in the same old mutual funds, melting a little more each day even as I repeat the mantra, "this is no time to sell. this is..."

But for a couple of days I KNEW NOTHING.

Yes, yes, it's important to stay aware of what's happening around us right now, including the quaking economy and the this-is-getting-really-personal presidential election. But I escaped it for the weekend by neither looking at a newspaper or TV news nor using a computer (indeed it's possible - just travel to the middle of a large lake in a good sailboat and forget that Palin is hinting that Obama is a terrorist, and that one's theoretical retirement is looking like a shrinking speck on a distant horizon).

Guess what? IT FELT GOOD not to know. And this is being said by a news-junkie-don't-call-me-a-nerd-bookworm-I'm-a-little-worried-oldest-child.

I'm planning yet another ignorance interval. I promise that it won't be a work day.