With the exception of the last occasion, this is time that I can almost tangibly feel slipping away from my life. Sure, many times, I am in this state while waiting for some other event or activity to start knowing that I do not have enough time to actually start something before I will be called away from it. However, often, like the twenty minutes or so before I started writing this post, it's just lost time when I know that there are other things that I could do.
Actually, I am almost more concerned about the time that I lose while just thumbing through Facebook or other Internet sites. Sure, I might be learning something interesting or new, but more often it is drivel that, at best, supports ideas that I already hold or, at worst, infuriates me as the ideas expressed go against my convictions (I also hate it when I then later waste time staring into space while mentally composing arguments that I will never write). I suppose, in that sense, it might be better to stare into space to give my brain time to reorganize.
Oddly, although I probably should, I don't count the time I use playing video games or watching movies and television shows as wasted unless I didn't like the end products. Hmmm ... Nope ... I still don't think of that as wasted time.