I’m stuck at my computer, and I can’t get up!
I have actually been living a life, although it’s probably hard to tell from the silence here on the blog. Wow, I think that might be first time I’ve ever publicly called DarnLucky.com a blog. But there it is. It’s a blog. It used to be an online journal, but there is far too much to do and very little time to write out o n l i n e j o u r n a l when you can just say blog.
Everything eventually becomes abbreviated in these modern times. In fact, today, one of my co-workers sent me the message “ty” after I told them I’d check in with a client about a certain project. “ty” is apparently the extremely brief abbreviation for the more proper, “thank you”. It felt a little chilly. ty. ouch.
I worry about how humans are going to survive as the future progresses into more time working, more time in front of a computer, less time walking and stretching out in the grass. I worry that our language will become a series of glib emoticon faces and ty. I worry that one day I’ll think it’s okay to write MC! on my Christmas cards. Or maybe I’ll make it hip, and write MX v.2k5.
I have been working on some really creative and productive projects over the past month. And I am DYING TO TELL SOMEBODY about them, but I can’t. Because it’s a project for MX v.2k5, and it will totally ruin it if I talk about it. But I really want to tell somebody. I want to show off what I’ve been working on. I want somebody to see why I haven’t had time to update the blog. So, if you have been missing me, and aren’t a member of my immediate family, and want to see what I’ve been doing, just send me an e-mail to beth at symbol darnlucky (dot) com.
Please. If I don’t tell somebody, I’m going to explode. I’m a blogger after all. My life revolves around public expos of my most mundane life events. I live to document. You can imagine my pain.
Help me live through the holidays.
ty.