NEW ADDICTIONS
I'll confess that I've started writing here for K. I enjoy her blog and the streams of banter in the comments. I've even started to venture into others that she recommends. "Write your own!" she encourages. She swears it'll be my new addiction, but I pray she's wrong. (She's already the catalyst for my dependence on email and more TV shows than I'll confess and frankly, I don't have brain cells for one more.) Yet somehow... I already feel the space calling my name. Blank pages to be filled with detailed accounts of daily musings that are suddenly post topics. Another way to organize my head, to breathe life into wisps of thought that would die quietly in the back corners of my mind simply for lack of anyone to share them with. (Which is probably what some of them should be allowed to do.) An invitation for banter of my own.
It's odd, the randomness of the thoughts you pull from an endless stream of consciousness and deem note worthy. What makes one more significant than the rest? I also find this to be true with Text Messaging, which K has just discovered (and has very quickly made me recant every threat I've issued to my teenage children about running up text charges on their cell phones). "Call them!" I tell the kids. But I finally understand that not all comments are call worthy, but some need sharing none-the-less. How lovely to share a very precise moment or thought as it unfolds, rather than wrapping it up and hoping you'll remember to open it later. How fun to be connected even when you've unplugged.
How addicting!
K, I suspect I'm LOST. :-P
It's odd, the randomness of the thoughts you pull from an endless stream of consciousness and deem note worthy. What makes one more significant than the rest? I also find this to be true with Text Messaging, which K has just discovered (and has very quickly made me recant every threat I've issued to my teenage children about running up text charges on their cell phones). "Call them!" I tell the kids. But I finally understand that not all comments are call worthy, but some need sharing none-the-less. How lovely to share a very precise moment or thought as it unfolds, rather than wrapping it up and hoping you'll remember to open it later. How fun to be connected even when you've unplugged.
How addicting!
K, I suspect I'm LOST. :-P
posted by valda at 12:09 PM
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Oh, I do hope so. And I love how after I've spent the last three months off and on pondering what the attraction to blogging really is, you waltz in and nail it. That's so you.
Just wait till I get home and can show you all the best blog toys.
I have to say that I'm not at all enamoured of texting. If I were, I would definitely need a phone with a keyboard. And I will eventually have one...as soon as someone makes the perfect phone for me - the one with the keyboard, microbrowser, mp3 player and slightly better camera that weighs in at something under a pound. It may already be here, I haven't checked a good phone roundup yet. I might even buy it without waiting for the Skype version.
It really is fun, if just for the "off the cuff" commentary that you can suddenly share. But yes, typing it out is a pain, even with the shortcut mode they all seem to have. I too am waiting to upgrade to an all in one, I think they're getting close! (But I am going to get into so much trouble when I can constantly have all that with me!)
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