Some years ago I thought about converting but it was impossible to keep kosher in my house. Also, I attended reform congregations and the one I was going to now has mostly female rabbi staff :( It's been a while since I've immersed myself in Jewish religious texts seeing as how I couldn't remember the word 'talmud'!! LOL
Boy, we are so alike. We should really meet up one day.
I converted to Reform Judaism years ago (with a female Rabbi). My nod to not working on the Sabbath is not cooking complicated meals (take out is good), no housework, and no homework. While I'm not sure how Orthodox would view using the computer, I try to keep the Friday night computer usage for fun.
As a grad student, even as a regular working person, it is so easy to let the world intrude 24/7. I am glad to have the Sabbath, even my miserable little way of keeping it, to force me to set some time away from work and the secular. Also, when my son was younger, Friday nights were family nights - pizza, a movie on tv, time to talk to each other. Good stuff.
I don't keep Kosher; my feelings are Hitler killed 6 million Jews, I doubt I'm going to hell for mixing meat and milk. I could be wrong. : )