January 30, 2004
Happy Friday
You know something? Being without a mobile phone is really a liberation. I know that sounds just plain silly because no one needs a phone strapped to any part of their body in order that the world be able to contact them at any moment. But in the four years that I've continually used a mobile phone, it has become one of the things I check for when I leave the house. Wallet, keys, phone. If I leave my umbrella at home, at least I have my wallet, keys, and phone. The other night, my phone suffered a catastrophic failure, and depending on my mood, it was drowned in the kitchen sink while doing the dishes, or it was run over by a bus on Market Street. Pick one. The phone's gone. Does it really matter? Maybe one day I'll admit it to myself. There he goes anthropomorphizing inanimate objects, again. But phones are quite animated nowadays, aren't they? Whatever. My point of this entry is to express the fact that no one knows where I am, no one knows how to reach me where I am, and it's kinda fun. I don't have to worry about getting calls that I don't want to hear. Then again, I could just turn the thing off and be done with it that way, too. I think it's the responsibility of checking messages or such like that. I mean, if the phone doesn't work, I can't check, right? One thing I miss is the clock. Since my occupation requires hours at the keyboard, wearing a watch is too restrictive and uncomfortable. So even though I have like a dozen different watches, I never wear them anymore, and their batteries died a long time ago. I relied on my phone to tell me the time, and not knowing the time is disconcerting, especially since I can't judge the time of day by the passing sun...and certainly not when it's raining. Oh, so why don't I just go buy a new phone? Ha ha, surely it isn't that easy. Though when it becomes that easy again, I know which one I want. Well, maybe I do. I would love this one, but do I really need Bluetooth and a camera? This one is totally cool and cute, but I can't tell how much it costs. Or will this one suffice?
Happy Friday!
