Vladimir is sleeping now. I will leave your first Q for him, but answer your second Q because we had a discussion about it.

We are in our apartments when we are being monitored, neither of us owns a TV and the internet has been the primary way for us to procrastinate or distract ourselves.

We would both continue to consider the experiment a success if all it does is to continue to prevent us from using the internet to procrastinate or to distract ourselves from our work -- it is not necessary for us to work at our computers the whole time we are being monitored.

So for example, I spent part of the time that Vladimir monitored me shaving and talking to my apartment manager because that was the most productive use of that time. (Of course, I told Vladimir that that was my plan.)