1. I didn’t blog on my vacation. Because I decided not to. Because it was my vacation.
2. Besides, what’s going on in Charlotte? I know I’ve been gone for 10 days so that doesn’t help – but ever since my “reduction in force” departure from uptown I feel completely disconnected from the city. University city isn’t Charlotte. All I know about up here is the going rate for Chai lattes at Ritazzas, 9am traffic patterns on highway 49, and how much my lit teacher wants me to drop out of the program. I need something to blog about. Send me ideas.I’m going to start making stuff up. Let me live my life vicariously through you. Please. Help! I need a study break. Or a nap.
3. Vancouver is awesome. Charlotte could learn a lot about Vancouver, like how to be prettier by incorporating mountains and ocean into the landscape. Also, how to make french fries more awesome with gravy and cheese curds. Also, transit?
4. I still don’t have a job. This, in addition to my classes and Wii fit, is doing wonders for my self esteem. Those “seeking entertainer” ads on craigslist are looking better and better. Even if that means more workouts and trips to Brazil.
5. My phone contract is up and I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching lately as to whether or not I could be a iphone/droid/nexusone/blackberry person. On the one hand, I don’t want to introduce the possibility of being a tweeting, emailing, foursquaring douchebag into my life 24/7. And I don’t want to pay $30 a month for data. On the other hand, ooooooo shiny phones so pretty. I am certain that I could be a Nokia 5100 person with a yellow cactus faceplate (I had this phone until 2004). But sadly, this is not an option. For nowI guess I’ll have to settle on being a person who is sick of sending money to Verizon.
All I can say is that living in Canada for grad school has forced me into some positive behavior patterns that will stick with me the rest of my life, the most important of which is not getting a smartphone.
Having had a smartphone, I thought I would be depressed moving to the “free phone” from Fido (a Rogers subsidiary) and paying $35/month instead of that $95/month in Charlotte. Oh how wrong I was. Sure, I can’t foursquare or brightkite but that SMS makes Twitter oh so easy. I’m glad I don’t have to dive on a sword if my phone gets lost and instead of obsessively staring at my shiny iPodPhone like everyone else on the bus, I can read meaningful books. Here’s to a simpler life.
They call it a crackberry for a reason. I have two (one for work and one for pleasure) and totally addicted.