After today, I will not be updating this site for one week. I’m taking seven days away from the internet. It’s funny that I even have to “announce” that–funny that I have to send out an email to tell others “do not email me.”

I realized this yesterday: The internet has become a part of the daily routine. Go to work. Check news..online. Talk to friends..online. Read poems, find the answer to a question..online. What was it like before the internet? The constant access is becoming overwhelming for me. I’m also starting to feel the strain on my relationships with friends. A lot of us have 9 to 5 jobs and we email banter in mass form throughout the day. But it’s no longer banter when it is constant, when it starts to replace the act of seeing someone face to face. And when we are face to face, there seems to be less to say. This is a big deal to me. I guess I just fear becoming desensitized to the person standing in front of me. I fear losing value in the experience of actually being in their company. I don’t know. It seems too easy to access someone now.

There are newspapers and PBS for the news, and projects galore to begin, continue, and end instead of putzing around on the silly, silly web. I’m excited. Focusing more on what I’m doing as opposed to focusing on the escape route.

So yeah. No updates this week.

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