Note to self: Spend time with self

Got to go running today. Yippee! I'm on Holiday Break, because I'm a teacher, and my son is on holiday break because he's a student. He's old enough to stay by himself for a while, like long enough for me to go for a run, but I feel kind of guilty leaving him here by himself. Though he doesn't seem to mind that much. He just draws his little pictures and comics and stuff. He's really into this Jurassic Park/dinosaur phase right now. I'll put up a copy of one of his drawings as soon as I can, they're pretty cool.

But wait...Could it be that I am helping him to be the kind of self-contained person that I am not? Wow, wouldn't that be great? I don't mind being alone, but I really do need to have the radio or TV on or to be using the computer or something most of the time. I think as a kid, I didn't mind hanging out by myself, since I never got much of a chance to do so. But now, as an adult, just sitting and thinking lets in the worries and self-analysis that I really don't want to think about. Probably why I have a hard time getting to sleep-- lying there in quiet is the only time I can't drown out my brain with external noise.