internet

For someone like me, who turns on the Internet first thing in the morning and turns it off just before going to bed (and, of course, is on it throughout the course of the day), it has been a difficult adjustment not to have regular and immediate access to the Internet. Today (March 17—St. Patrick’s Day) was supposed to be a workday for me, but I spent about two hours just going through e-mails. Some of it was important—correspondence with family, friends, colleagues, but many were mails from listservs, etc. By the time, a couple of hours were up, I was exhausted and had only gotten a little bit of work done.

I should be thankful, though, that the Internet café I was using today has pretty fast connection. I used another café briefly two other times since I arrived here, and that one has slow connection. It took a while to load my emails, which is why I still had a lot of mails to go through today.

Amazing how dependent I am on the Internet. I feel paralyzed when I don’t have access to it. Even when the things I need to do only require the computer and not the Internet, I still feel like I can’t do my work. I had to force myself to start typing up some content for this blog, so that I can just save several entries to a flash drive and upload them all at once when I do find time to be online again. Hopefully, it will be easy for me to upload pictures.