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I never thought I’d say this…
…but I really wish we’d gone to Starbucks instead.
I honestly am having a hard time believing that in 2009 a nation-wide coffee chain can put such ridiculous restrictions on Internet access as Panera does. Ivona and I wanted to get out of the house and do some reading and I wanted to get some website work done, including setting up a site on my web host for Maury. After paying for overpriced coffee and 20-30 minutes of time online, which was spent frustratingly hitting the refresh button because the connection constantly dropped or timed out, I got another login screen.
“We are sorry: An error has occurred. You have consumed all on-line peak period time available. Please retry later.”
Maybe it’s the weather
I think I used to be a much more passionate person. I used to care more about a lot of things. I used to get excited and worked up and interested. I feel like I’ve stagnated a lot in the past few years, maybe even since starting college, and I’m hoping I can get back to where I used to be.
Ivona said tonight that she likes when I write blog entries because it’s like a window to my inner thoughts that I don’t normally vocalize or go out of my way to share. I realized that’s largely true, and not necessarily because I don’t want to share things with her, but when I don’t write it’s almost like I don’t even think about things too deeply, or analyze my own feelings. Writing is the only way I know how to figure things out, of being truly introspective. The only time I really felt like that without having to write to get at it was when I was living in France; being in a place where you don’t really speak the language at first forces you to be pretty introspective. Oddly enough, I did some of my best writing (the non-introspective kind) when I was there. It’s part of the reason I want to go back so badly.
