Bogged down in emails...
ever feel that you are often deleting more that you are reading...that when you open up the computer you are kinda scared - damn, more emails - damn...see...only a 104 you might say, man i have at least 1,400 emails in my inbox, heck 104 emails is what i get in a daily basis...is this something to brag about? i don't know about you, but i am ready to blow up my email inbox and start from scratch...maybe that is why people change email addresses often, so once in their life they can open up their email and see a inbox count of ZERO...
has life gotten so out of control that we can't live without the instant gratification of information and answers...it has...and as we continue to expand out techinical capabilities then we get more and more dependent upon them - to the point that i actually don't remember when i received a letter in the mail (outside of all that junk mail that i always keep getting) or when i have actually written a letter...damn - i am no better - in fact, i was having this conversation with a friend the other day about getting a cell phone that would keep me accessed to my email and the internet...and i went back and forth, but ended with me saying - no way, i am already addicted to it enough, that i would be horrible...so i have decided that if i have a cell, that it would be simple, i don't even want a camera on my phone...
the reality of the situation is such - the more and more we make our lives easier, the more and more we complicate it. now there is not just one way of getting in touch with people, but many. this is good and bad. i like it and i don't. i will be quite honest though, i know this has happened to you as well, when you don't have a cell or access to the internet, you go through withdrawls, which (depending upon how dependent you are on them) can last up to one week...but then, for some unknown reason you get used to being without it...and you enjoy it - then for some unknown reason you are drawn back to it and you want it again - it is like crack...it is horrible...
so here it is - we all think it, but we never verbalize it. i think we should have a "National Write a Letter Day" - where we actually write letters to the ones we love, and not email them. bring back the personal touch to relationships. who is with me? I think it would be a great way of getting back into the habit of it and i think it might help us all learn a little patience...which is one thing that is going away...(you know how you react if your computer takes more than a minute to load, you start cursing at it and yelling at it, like it can hear you and start to move faster becaue you are yelling at it...)
damn, i have been away from email for about 5 minutes...i wonder if anyone has emailed me...
till later...
Jameson on dice...
back in school and back with my grad school friends - good times all around - so we were playing this game that involved a DVD, a board and dice - my friend was passing me the dice and one fell into a cup of Jameson - so the picture was taken...
being back in DC is quite surreal - i don't know what is really going on, i am in a constant state of movement, life here doesn't seem to slow down or stop - there is always something going on, always something to do - in fact, you have to
schedule free time, or alone time or me time...it is amazing - you could spend a whole day not with yourself...i mean you are with yourself, but not really, cause in the end you are being someone for someone else - so in the end, you don't get to be with yourself...wierd isn't it - often, people
schedule time for themselves - that i find amusing -who does that? people say, well if i pay for a yoga class, then that is my time - so now you have placed a "monetary value" on your time - amazing, couldn't your time be free? maybe not...then that isn't worth it - right?
so lets change the subject before i enter a circular talk and in the end, end up where i began, with all of you shaking your heads saying - "where is he going with this?" - lets talk about bar conversations - we have all had them - some of them we remember, some of them we don't want to remember, others we just can't remember...when people get a little bit of alcohol in them, they start to talk about the wierdest things. topics come up that would not normally discussed, things get said that would not normally be said and in the end, every one laughs and those that remember the conversation simply shake their heads and say "why were we talking about that again" - then simply dismiss it as a drunken conversation with little to no truth. then there is the topic of conversations that happen per the city you are in - i will speak towards DC, because that is where i am - the bar conversations are highly political and within my circle of friends it is about international development. so when we talk, we talk about things that are happening in the world around us -then we end up getting into highly deep conversations about how we should really change the world, to end the conversation with - "lets have another drink and worry about it tomorrow!" - such is development.
welcome to my life...
till later...
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Back into the grind -
so my adventures in india are over, but my adventures in the states have just begun! haha! now it is time for my second year of Grad studies - following up on the desired plan to become a International Development Specialist - this i have learned will happen one paper and reading at a time - and in the end, it will happen over beers and drinks at bars with fellow classmates and DCites discussing politics and economics after several drinks. AHH DC - it is fun - plus it is fun to get into highly intellectual conversations with people after several gin and tonics - i highly recommend it - it is truely amusing - pushing buttons without pushing people away - i think it is a skill and one that can be acquired in our fair and lovely city of DC - i think they term it "being politcally correct" - you can insult people, without really insulting them...it is true - try it - it is fun...
so i am back in the grind of day in and day out life in DC - back at GW back in the library and back with the books - it is nice to be back and to be doing thins again - well i say that now, and come about two months i will be cursing my life as i am buried under papers and reports...haha! but until that point in time i can lavish in the freedom of being a college (albiet graduate student) student one more time...
alright - next time pictures of my adventures in DC - i will try to make these blogs as amusing and insightful (or boring) as you have found my other blogs - i will try to tread on topics that i will be looking at in class and that i will be discussing with fellow drunken classmates in bars......
enjoy....
till later -
Back in DC...western style...
