koleeta

We will not have internet in the apartment for a week. This will be interesting. I wonder if that means I will actually get around to cleaning my room, reading my books and um, making things. I do love making things.

The internet is so distracting. I guess it's more that I'm always interested in what my friends are doing. I was always the one to be stuck at home doing homework when all the other kids are out playing. I think on my summer breaks I would be at home with a huge book called "Super Workbook" or something like that which just had random homework type problems in it. Mostly it was reading, writing and arithmetic. My mom would assign a certain number of pages that needed to be done before she came home from work. I would spend most of my days watching tv, do a little homework here and there, play with my toys.

To give you an idea of how lonely I was: I lived about two cities over from where I went to school and thus where all my friends lived. Also, I was an only child. When I started learning how to use the phone it was really sad for me to call my friends and find out that they were all out playing together somewhere. In high school I would still get those feelings of loneliness when I learned that my friends were doing things together and I was not there. I guess it only makes sense that now I'm always eager to be distracted, to not be doing what I should be doing so that I can be involved with another person.