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Me and My Virtual Personal Assistant

I keep hearing about how in today's culture, none of us has time to do anything anymore. We're too busy checking our BlackBerries, getting our political news from the Internet, and convening around the proverbial water cooler to discuss the hilarious hijinx of the celebrity of the day (did you hear the latest about Mickey Rooney?).Some people also apparently spend a lot of time raising children, b

I keep hearing about how in today's culture, none of us has time to do anything anymore.

We're too busy checking our BlackBerries, getting our political news from the Internet, and convening around the proverbial water cooler to discuss the hilarious hijinx of the celebrity of the day (did you hear the latest about Mickey Rooney?).

Some people also apparently spend a lot of time raising children, but I'm far too busy for that (a group of highly-trained professionals take care of my septuplets, 24 hours a day).

If you're like me, you have a list of things to do (some call it a "to do" list), but I'm constantly adding to the list ("adopt pet lemur") and rarely crossing anything off of it. I think I've had clothes at the dry cleaner since the first Cleveland administration.

So with so much time and so little to do (wait a minute...scratch that, reverse it), what are we to do?

TODAY National Correspondent Amy Robach investigated one approach to getting things done: hiring a virtual personal assistant. WATCH VIDEO

Sure, it seems like a good idea. But with my luck, my virtual personal assistant will match my own inability to get errands done and will just end up sitting on my couch with me, watching "Weeds" on DVD.

But hopefully on his way over to my apartment, he'll pick up that lemur for me. I'm going to name him Thucydides.