Modern Comforts

Since I only have about a half hour's worth of electricity left this will be the fastest typed post ever! Thank goodness I can type 70wpm. Power has been down since 5am and the landlord says it may be down for another couple of hours. This is the one time my need to print things out has worked in my favor. I have tons of schoolwork to do and my access to the library will be down. However, at least I have hard copies of my articles and notes from contacts so it won't be so bad. It goes to show you that in some cases, we don't have to depend on technology to get stuff done. I do hope it does come back up so that my groceries won't spoil. The situation kind of reminds me of when we had the blackout a couple of years ago. Everyone at work was freaking out because they couldn't check email, make phone calls, nothing. The funny thing was that the people who were freaking out weren't worried about other human beings...they were only worried about generating revenue. They weren't even thinking about those who had elderly loved ones and children that they couldn't get a hold of to make sure everything was o.k. I heard it took them two hours of debating to see if other employees could leave or not. I heard it when we got back to work a couple of days later. On the blackout day, I had called into the newsroom at my old job about ten minutes after power went out and Mark told me the entire Eastern seaboard was out of power...I told my boss i'm leaving to try to get home and I left. I wasn't going to debate with them or wait for them to make a decision based on money. Many others followed my lead and left with me. I guess it's all about perspective. I better go before I get a power hit or something that will totally mess up the computer. I'll continue to use the electrical currents in my brain to get stuff done.