Freezing rain???????!!!!!!!!  What?  I step out of the city for one weekend and this is what happens????  Can I not look away for one second?  Ottawa, you’re killing me.

My goodness.  Tonight, I just realized that email, Facebook, blog-reading, and my own website (and its comments) are my soma.  I have it all set up to check through my iGoogle page.  But my routine everyday when I sit down at the computer is this: check my website for any comments, check iGoogle and go through email, Facebook, and any blogs I haven’t read yet.  And then I check my Fantasy Hockey team to see how many points my players have scored.  And sometimes I click through all these things every few minutes when I’m home.

You see, my internet world has become really small.  I hardly visit websites that aren’t linked from my own website.  I subscribe to a limited number of blogs.  My Facebook has been scaled back, almost to the point that I’m seriously considering leaving it.

Somehow my brain has grown accustomed to the act of clicking my mouse and receiving affirmation from emails and notifications.  It’s the soma that I feed on when I am bored, stressed, or without anything better to do (seemingly).  It all feels so robotic.  Somehow it doesn’t feel right.  Do you ever get to this point?  Because in a few weeks, I think it’s going to drive me crazy.  I need to get out.

Tonight I got to play guitar to practise for Young Adults.  It was a bit amok since someone was sick so at one point I was playing electric.  I wasn’t faring too well.  It was evident to the rest of the band that we needed to make a change.  I switched back to acoustic.  All was a bit better.  Note to self, get better at playing guitar so that I can play electric more!  If anyone is interested in lending an electric to me, perhaps with a set of pedals and an amp, I would love it!

Do you ever experience how when people talk about things online over email, Facebook, or chat, and what was mentioned never makes it into real life conversation?  I hold the opinion that if you don’t already know someone really really well, what is discussed in the virtual realm is quite separate from the live and the physical.  Somehow talking on a computer is exactly that: talking to a computer.

Over the weekend we went to see “Dr. Seuss: Horton Hears a Who”.  It was a fantastic movie!  The animation was great, the storyline was well done, the humour really quite witty.  Apparently this story was originally written with human rights in mind.  It speaks on the value of a being whether you can see them or not.

The semester is winding down.  It’s pretty insane.  Time flew by so quickly.

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