Back from the brink . . . .

Posted on | May 2, 2009 | Comments Off

Sortof . . . . About a month ago I moved (physically) and in true Miss Vapor Trail style I didn’t get my internet set up. There is another cute hipster coffee shop down the street that I can use, but guess what? They aren’t open very late on week days. The other big guess what? I don’t really miss the internet that much. Right before I moved a started a class that’s mostly reading. and reading and reading and reading. I still haven’t even fully unpacked my stuff yet.

Besides which, I get more than enough internet at my job. In fact, I’m so over-internetted that I don’t even look at the websites when I do first round cold calling. An itern asked me what I look for in a website before I call a company, and I had to admit the truth: I read OMMA while I’m on hold.When I’m not on hold reading OMMA, I’m working late (it’s actually slowed down a little this past week, which I’m thankful for even though it’s not good when the sales team isn’t busy)

Facebook, I thought I could never do without, but since the last redesign it’s just gotten goofy. I think they tweaked the algorithm of the friend feed and now I see more actions of my acquintances who I barely remember than the pithy updates of the people I really care about. Also: spring finally hit in Chicago, which means people are going OUTSIDE and SEEING PEOPLE instead of stalking them on facebook (I know, the lengths that some people will go to to get an interactive experience is appalling.)

But you know what I really don’t miss? TV. I’m currently completely TV-less and can’t even watch it on my computer without the internet, and I’m not missing it at all. I do occasionally wonder what’s going on with my buddy Betty and Meredith Grey’s ongoing/offgoing relationship (last I heard they got engaged, but she didn’t seem overly excited about it when she told Christina . . . . maybe she was just tired. Ever notice how she doesn’t sleep? She just works and drinks and hooks up with the attending surgeons,) but I’ve pretty much shed my need to rot my brain out when I come home. If I need noise or something I turn on the radio and listen to NPR. Have you ever noticed that they always seem to have something really interesting to talk about? I feel far more informed about the current torture/water boarding controversy now that I would be if I had blown my evenings watching . . . . . what was it that I was watching? Oh right, I was actually a little obsessed with Keith Oberman and Rachel Maddow. Oberman can put together some very interesting arguments sometimes but mostly he just blathers on about Bill O’Reilly, and Rachel’s pretty much every where these days. Actually, I do miss Rachel a little bit. She’d definately got a charming personality that makes you want to hang out with her every day.

Okay, so this is clearly one of my “Randomness” posts – Next week I want to get back to the stuff I had originally intended to blog about: web development innovations and the creative mind.