The Agony OR The Ecstasy?

Okay, I am stuck in the middle of a blizzard in real life (minus 45 celcius windchills) coz I was silly enough to "escape" for a bit of solitude and am now trapped. Luckily for you my internet connection still works.
But, here is one of my questions for today:
Do YOU feel guilty and careworn when you LOG OFF from SL at God knows what hours of the morning, or refreshed and invigorated and able to face the coming day?
Are you agonized or ... ecstasized?
Pussonally, I feel a mix of both. Guilty that I actually enjoyed myself but should be busy making things happen in real life and REFRESHED that whatever happenz in reality, it can't be as bizarre as in SL ... can it???
So, do you agonize over YOUR time spent here or do you relish it - afterwards??

For me, the guilt is in the furtive pleasure of the Forum when I know I should really be getting on with my duties in SL... is the Forum a sort of third life to escape from the second? And where next?

I logged off at 3:00 AM "yesterday" and had about three hours of sleep. When I did log off, I felt all of the above. I was guilty because I knew I'd pay for it. I was exhilarated because I had just given a pair of friends a "partnering" gift I had made for them. And I was very tired as well. All of this combined to give me a peculiar jittery feeling. It was fun

I feel the same right now

Neither. I feel sufficiently entertained. I log off and proceed to whatever it is I am doing next, be it work, another leisure activity or going to sleep.

Neither Agony or Ecstacy.
To me, SL is what it is ,a Second Life. I take care of what I need done in RL before I escape to any entertainment (reading, watching TV, SL, etc). I often log on at work because I am either at lunch or babysitting students in the lab.

So there is no guilt in my enjoying my free time. And if I choose to stay up until 3am because of SL, oh well so be it, its my lives.

What Jezabell said! I don't feel anything. I do often feel tired ... and tonight I am giving myself the luxury of an early night no matter what!

Re this place being the third life to escape the second - yeah I've said that is the case for many which is pretty bad in a place where the only TRUE limit is your imagination. I liken this Forum to a magazine to read while I am waiting for a train. If I am in here I am either at work or I am taking a break from building when not otherwise "claimed".

BUT I used to stay up till 5am sometimes way before SL.

If anything makes me feel guilty it's being sleepy at my 1am against his 7pm ...

/me blushes and squirms in his seat.
Actually, just being ask that that question sort of makes me yearn to feel both.

Most nights I log off with plenty of time to tuck my daughter in bed, finishes loading dishes and wipe down the kitchen (my kitchen, btw. I cook, I clean it, I put stuff where I know where it is) and in bed by 11:00 my time. Those nights when I do stay on don't bother me any more than a slight twing of thinking I will only be getting 3 hours of sleep.

Weekends don't count tho. I may not get on line until midnight SLT and party with the Aussies until the sun comes up.