me o’clock
1. I never thought I’d say this, but I haven’t done much of anything on the internet for the last year. I still post from time to time, but I haven’t written anything of substance (here) in ages, and lately I go weeks without even checking my email. This time last year I was posting fifteen times a day.
2. I still think about the internet – and the people in it – all the time, it’s just no longer in the same kind of demented fervor omigawdimmamisstheparty breathlessness. I’m quite sure this means I’m no longer addicted.
3. Now that I’ve overcome my internet codependency, I’m slowly paving a digital path for myself, one that I can travel in a healthy manner. I’m in no hurry.
4. The internet and I can’t be codependent any more than my favorite scarf and I can, but still. I project and personify because it amuses me, not because I don’t know the difference.
5. I really hope Donald Trump runs for President, because his humiliation will be awesome to watch.
6. The other day I was craving Starbucks, which, naturally, does not have a franchise in Grenada. So I melted a candy bar and added it to a cup of instant coffee, and BOOM. Tastes just like home.
7. I don’t even drink Starbucks. I also don’t eat McDonald’s or Pizza Hut or Taco Bell or any fast food, really, but I crave all of them like crazy when I see commercials. That’s why I learned to make deep dish pizza from scratch.
8. Thirteen years ago in Paris, I met Margaret Atwood and had a chance to talk to her at length, but I didn’t, because I was scared and also somehow thought it was an opportunity I’d have again. Past me was silly, and should’ve worn more comfortable shoes.
9. Speaking of Margaret Atwood, I just finished Oryx & Crake. I highly recommend it, especially if you enjoy love stories about the end of the world.
10. To Bean, everything on TV is either cartoons or the news, except for Futurama, which he says is both. I think I’m going to appropriate that, and refer to everything in life as that’s fun or insipid as cartoons and everything else as the news. Except for this post, which is both.
Posted on April 22nd, 2011 under Grenada • Tags: caribbean, expat, Grenada, lists, living abroad, my life right now, random. • 
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April 22nd, 2011 at 4:01 pm
You can notify Bean that Futurama also counts as lecture material for college classes. I used the episode “Crimes of the Hot” to talk about Global Warming….
Glad to hear you are doing well.
May 10th, 2011 at 10:08 am
I loved the two Margaret Atwood novels (O&C and the other one that overlaps it but for which I can’t currently remember the title). It would be cool to meet her!