Selling Sno-Cones at the Beach

techno deprivation

I haven't had Internet access or email since Sunday, when we (by we I mean B) installed the NEW! LASER! PRINTER! and in the course of setups of various sorts, my connections don't work anymore. So I work at the desktop (which fortunately still has all my Faves in IE) and get my email from hotmail, which is kind of annoying since a) I'm not used to the program; and 2) it reminds me of sitting in Internet cafes in Europe paying by the minute while junk mail that looked like real mail downloaded for 40 minutes.

It's really amazing how quickly one acclimates to top service. Some of my friends have dial-up, and that just seems sad. Nowadays, the graduate lab is jammed full of people all the time - there are maybe 10 computers and about 80 grad students. I work in "my" advising office, but that is rapidly coming to a close - we are mostly through the interview process and may make a decision as early as Friday.

One thing I've noticed about NOT having email is that formerly I checked it about a gazillion times a day, and surfed randomly whenever I felt like taking a break. It's good to have a reminder once in a while of these types of time-wasters.