It's currently 11:30, and I have an essay to do. However, I just received an email from a very very pregnant aunt who says she's started reading this thing (do you think the unborn child is absorbing my sparkling wit?), so I feel it is my honorable duty to write a nice, thoughtful post before I take a short hiatus. See, I'm heading down to Washington DC, attending some big climate change conference.There's actually 48 St. Lawrence kids heading down to this: we're all piling in a bus at the crack of dawn Friday, and not returning until late Monday night. Just as exciting as the whole conference thing is the fact that I'm staying with several old friends from high school while down there, and expecting some fairly epic times. While perhaps it's not as spontaneous as Nathan's Florida run, I still imagine I'll return with at least a couple of amusing tales.
So from Friday until yesterday, I conducted an interesting experiment where I tried living sans cell phone. Yes, perhaps this was prompted by the vanishing of my phone, and yes, perhaps it was me subsequently buying a new one that ended the experiment, but nevertheless! it was all done in the name of science. Turns out that there is a plus side: it's remarkably easy to dodge people who you didn't really want to talk to. On the downside, you also accidentally fall out of contact with people who's company you do enjoy. Seeing as my life has far more of the latter type of people than the former, my scientific decision is that I really didn't like being without my phone. No comforting weight in my pocket, no way to pester friends while I'm at work, etc. Very depressing. More than anything besides a computer, cell phones are the modern technology that I have difficulty imagining living without. This may sound very narrow-minded, seeing as the majority of people on this planet are making do just fine without, but the degree to which my social life is cell phone-dependent is kinda scary. Hm, getting too serious for this medium.
- Watchmen comes out in a bit more than a week! Eek! I'm seriously far too excited about this film...
- Trying to reaccumulate my contact list is bloody miserable. The numbers on this phone are also much harder to press than on my previous one, and I'm growing frustrated by my lack of dexterity. Not for the first time.
- I read a NY Times article today about an elementary school class that is experimenting with having no chairs. The desks are higher than usual, and the students stand at them. This sounds remarkably sadistic, although it's ostensibly for the benefit of the children.
- I had to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey for a class of mine. Wow. That is a painful movie to sit through. Epic and all, but numbingly boring. I do love the novel, however. Nathan and I have some history with that book...
- To the person who took my sheets out of the wash and left them on the lint-covered floor: not okay. Not Okay.
- I just realized that I've had headphones in for the last half hour, but never turned on any music...
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3 comments:
Lets just hope that unborn child doesn't absorb your tendency to heartlessly retract book loans.
kudos for significantly enhancing the banner
Can i say that i too despise people who take out my clothing and throw them on the floor/top of washer/in the dryer w. no heat/ etc
... it's kinda annoying
oh and the headphone thing ... i do that too, alot more than i normally realize
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