Over stimulation

Hello and welcome,
This will be my first post using blogger. I have a xanga account, but after talking to my brother
I realized that blogs are somewhat more 'professional' looking and maybe a few more people may read what I have to say.
If anyone has ever read my xanga, they have found that I wrote in more of a continuous stream of thought instead of legible paragraphs. I hope that with this blog I will be able to organize what is in my brain and assemble it in some fashion for general consumption.
To the point:
Due to a conference occurring right now there are a lot of people that I normally socialize with that are out of town. This resulted in a rather boring night of checking my email, facebook, and checking all of my friend's away messages on AIM.
After a few ...hours of this (I normally have a life), I began to grow rather anxious and impatient with myself and just wanted to go out and do something. Whether it be take a walk, practice, or save the rain forest I was up for it. Which led to the thought of, "why do I need to be doing something right now?" During a normal day while I was enduring my 23.5 credit load, I would do anything to just sit and relax. But no, I had the fortune of relaxing and I completely was taking it for granted. I was unhappy because I was getting what I finally wanted. But was this true? Would I really be happier living a hectic schedule? I hope not.
Rather, I think that the fault is due to my normal over stimulation. Day after Day I bombarded myself with constant feed from the Internet, be it social or academic material. We can watch television and have commercials which would never last longer than the attention span of a five year old. It is a very sad thing when people cannot stand silence for more than a minute. I believe this to be the largest fault in prayer. We try to overstimulate ourselves by talking continuously to God, but we never stop to listen. Our thoughts can never be silent, we always have to be worrying instead of just be silent. I ask, is it possible for us to try? Can we let God speak for once?