Two in five check work emails at Christmas break

Are you that sad? I am.

I will no doubt justify my sloping off every couple of hours or so to check my Blackberry on the grounds that 'it could be really important/better to keep them under-control rather than go back to thousands of unread messages/I could be missing out on a unique financial opportunity linked to an arrested Nigerian minister', but really its just because checking my e-mail has become such an ingrained habit, that every time the little machine bleeps I have some sort of Pavlovian reaction, which means I MUST open the message even if deep down I know that it'll only be an e-mail alert from the New York Times (or more likely and less pretentiously and cerebrally www.evertonfc.com) .

Next week in Nowak's Neuroses: Why the milk HAS to go into the mug before the boiling water....