Nico's Room

(Written yesterday)

It’s 11 pm, July 4th. I am deadtired from a full weekend of fun and little sleep. I am annoyed that I can’t sleep right now due to all the fireworks exploding everywhere outside my window. Oh, and for the fact that I am paranoid that my phone will ring any minute as a friend told me he would call me if he decided to go bar-hopping, that I am invited. Though I said yes because I do want to bar-hop, I kind of hope the phone doesn’t ring because I would also like to sleep. Anyway, the digital sabbatical has felt great! I wouldn’t say that I am excited about returning to my digital accounts. I have missed my blog (and all of your blogs), but I haven’t missed Facebook, Hulu, or iChat/Skype (Then again, I mainly do the iChatting and Skyping with people from home while I am away at school and only very rarely the other way around.) Blogging, I feel, is enriching my life. Facebook definitely is not. And Hulu is an excuse I use to procrastinate. I did miss the freedom some; that is, there were a few occasions when I saw something online, wanted to share it with someone via Facebook, but had to resist. It’s more difficult inserting those things into conversations or trying to explain them in a text. At this point I feel like I could check Facebook once a week, and that would be all right. I even feel like I might turn these digital sabbaticals into a weekend routine. It was nice to fully engage in my weekend. Reading, writing, sunbathing and being social. It was fabulous. One thing I did on Friday was delete Facebook and Tumblr from my bookmark bar. I think it was reflex to click on them all the time. Gmail, Facebook, Tumblr in that order. I think I will leave them off, and perhaps the habit of opening them all the time will die away. I disconnected for a weekend and nothing went wrong. I’m starting to remember what my life was life before I was a social networker.

Weekend reading list:

Summer edition of the Kenyon Alumni Bulletin
August issue Coastal Living Magazine
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tags: Holidays uphill battle with technology update on my life it's all been down hill since i turned 21

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I'm Nicolyn. I've got an honors English degree from a fancy school in rural Ohio. Next up, I get to study for my M.A. in a Southern Ohio town called Oxford. At any given moment, I'd rather be in Cebu City, Philippines. I have a major thing for cupcakes, thrift stores, and red lipstick; I enjoy R.A.S.K.-ing, long walks down Middle Path, nautical themes, expensive kitchen knives, Southeast Asian diaspora literature, Spanish fútbol, neat whiskey, sassy wines, and the Boston Red Sox. I'm in love with the world and I hate it all at once.