Femina Ex Machina

This is Chromie, reporting live from inside the computer.

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Here I am, minding my own business, having impulsively decided to change a bit around my blog when things start to go a bit wonky. Before I know it, my Internet is down, only for me to regain my signal and be on again. Only, I wasn't: I am connected to the router, but the modem and the internet is currently down. I'd otherwise check the connection and see what's going on, but it's over at my neighbor's place and is probably already asleep. I suppose I can look out my window and see if there's light coming from his. I'm afraid if I do that, someone's face will be staring back at me.

Maybe I can shut all the lights and see.

...

He's tapped out for the night.

Now I'm faced with a serious dilemma: I can organize my Hawaii pics! But wait! I need to access my Flickr in order to do that. Alright, How about some computer games! Marvel idea, except for the fact my tin of games is currently atop a table made of shoeboxes in Ventura. How about play my DS and my one game? I'm at this point where I can finish the game, but I kind of want to enjoy playing other parts of it, maybe poke around and search for gems that would make me more powerful, but I don't know where to look. Plus, I'm slowly waiting to collect a bunch of the coveted golden ship parts so I'll be fully prepared to face the final boss(es), even though that really means I'll have one more ship heart than seven when facing it, and I doubt that would make or break my success. Simply put, I don't want to play it. There's a Wii in the living room, and that's exactly it; It's in the living room.

Maybe I can make like a bird, make the room all dark and get all sleepy and fall asleep. After all, It's been tough going to sleep recently; my body will only let me get 5 hours max. sleep before it wakes itself up. Yeah! I should do that! Except...since I worked on Saturday, going in my full 8 tomorrow will take me over my bimonthly 80, and overtime is out of the question, so I was asked to sleep in or leave super early...leaving early sounds like a bad idea, especially since I'd be stuck in nothing but horrible traffic. I figure, I can do a lot more if I did things in the morning. Hey! Maybe I can finally go to Samy's or some place and get my last two rolls of film from Hawaii processed and scanned!


Yet I am still here, now reclined on my back with Monty on my lap as I type this, and running the router diagnostic to see if it can reconnect the connection. Really? What's a girl to do?

...and then, as if I'm like, a genius as my boss calls me, or something, I come up with the most BRILLIANT idea:

I can read. A book.

Maybe study; look over my old Japanese book, or go through my German dictionary.

Maybe reaquaint myself with Andy, since I haven't had a date with him this year, and I'm ashamed to say that we missed our annual date last year.

I can clean my room (HA HA FAT CHANCE)

Heaven forbid, KNIT (how I miss it)

Probably better, crochet.

At the very least, I can take off this bra, get in a sleeping shirt, drag myself to the bathroom to brush my teeth and take off my contacts...but here I am, rambling away on Notepad, lamenting and watching my life tick away at every stroke of the keyboard.

...what comes to mind is that scene in Beaches where Bette Midler is in that show where she's singing amongst all these robots when she's human and at the end, she's surrounded by them, and at the very end she becomes one of them.

I'm sure some of my being like this is because I spend very little personal time on the computer as of late, and it's hard adjusting after having a lot of time at my old work, and then having no work at all.

Then again, I was completely without computer for an entire week and I don't think I could be any happier...

I'm thinking in circles. And wasting time. Maybe some potato chips or soup will help me figure things out.

(end session: 10:23pm)