yesterday, Christine told me that i need to get AOl instant messenger on my computer, and also yahoo IM. she said that i\u2019m the only friend she has who isn\u2019t on these vital and necessary IM programs. i said, why do i need to do this? she said, she and jerri IM each other all the time, for example. and pointed out again that i\u2019m the ONLY ONE who\u2019s not on board. i pointed out to her that we talk on the phone quite a bit, sometimes a few times a day. and i send her e-mails, sometimes very long ones because i can\u2019t help it. and she said that now, we\u2019ll be able to communicated INSTANTLY. and everybody\u2019s doing it. <\/p>\n
i said, next there will be a hologram of you, so it will be just like you\u2019re right here, instead of in denver. she pointed out that there are webcams, and i shuddered at the thought. so i\u2019d have to look presentable while writing? the great thing about writing is that i can do it when i first get out of bed in the morning, or the middle of the night, and it doesn\u2019t matter how i look or what i\u2019m wearing.<\/p>\n
i told her i\u2019d get right on it. except yesterday i needed a break from all things computer, so i didn\u2019t do it then. maybe today. or tomorrow.<\/p>\n
the thing is, i used to have aol im as well as yahoo. this was when i was a slave in an office in LA, bored out of my mind most of the time. when you\u2019re sitting at a desk, no matter if you\u2019re bored or even if you\u2019re busy, it\u2019s nice to IM people, it\u2019s like chatting with friends only nobody can hear you. but now that i\u2019ve been liberated forever from an office, i don\u2019t imagine that the IM will be so practical for me. for one thing, i\u2019m not a short im kind of person. if you know me, you know that i write very long e-mails, because i can\u2019t help it. sometimes i write books worth of stuff. ok, not books so often, maybe just the one time, but still, i write a lot. and also, if i\u2019m online, i\u2019m probably looking a bunch of stuff up, or i\u2019m writing something (like this), and the IMs break my concentration.<\/p>\n
but i\u2019ll sign up anyway, to make christine happy. even though we\u2019ll probably never be online at the same time, since much of my onlining is in the evening or in the middle of the night. <\/p>\n
AND, the funny thing, she said that usually when she is connected to her IMs, she\u2019s HIDDEN from everybody! so she\u2019s just lurking there, only making her presence known when she feels like it. i imagine that\u2019s how many people must do it. so when i get the IM, people will be skulking around, WATCHING ME.<\/p>\n
but luckily they won\u2019t be able to actually see me. all they\u2019ll know for sure is that i\u2019m sitting down somewhere (or lying in bed), pounding the keyboard.<\/p>\n
christine, by the way, is naturally quite thin (and lovely), and she can\u2019t really afford to injure herself. i\u2019ve written about how she eats anything and everything, and HATES to exercise, but i forgot to mention that naturally thin part. she said people will think she weighs 400 pounds.<\/p>\n
but anyway, she went skiing over the weekend. i kept telling her DON\u2019T GO SKIING! because i hate skiing, it\u2019s VERY VERY DANGEROUS. i don\u2019t believe in doing something that involves hurtling yourself downhill over ICE AND SNOW, wearing skis that are WAXED IN ORDER TO BE EVEN MORE SLIPPERY AND TREACHEROUS.<\/p>\n
skiing and i don\u2019t get along so well. have i told you about trying to learn to ski in the austrian alps? i have yet to recover from the psychological trauma.<\/p>\n
anyway, christine thinks skiing is FUN, for some crazy reason. WHAT ABOUT SONY BONO? i asked her. WHAT IF YOU RUN INTO A TREE AND DIE?<\/p>\n
she promised she wouldn\u2019t run into any trees. <\/p>\n
she called me after she got back, and i was relieved that she was still able to phone (but could she still instant message?). she was fine, she said, except at the end of the day she fell face-first and twisted her knee, but by now it\u2019s a lot better.<\/p>\n
whew. SHE BARELY ESCAPED DEATH, and i asked her to please think of another sport. like i said, she hates most exercise and we almost ruined our friendship when we went hiking together.<\/p>\n
but yesterday my friend thad called me, from DC. Thad is very fit, works out all the time, he\u2019s in great shape. and he\u2019s been skiing since he was a teenager, unlike christine, who\u2019s only done it a few times.<\/p>\n
thad was also skiing, somewhere out there by DC, and he BROKE HIS SHOULDER. He\u2019d been doing jumps all day, and by the end of the day he was tired and fell and BROKE HIS SHOULDER. i don\u2019t like to even imagine the kind of pain he must have been in.<\/p>\n
the thing is, i hadn\u2019t even known he was going skiing, so i didn\u2019t have the opportunity to warn him of the GRAVE DANGER he was exposing himself to. plus, since he is in such good shape, and he\u2019s so experienced, i probably would have figured he\u2019d be ok.<\/p>\n
BUT SONY BONO WAS AN EXPERIENCED SKIIER, TOO.<\/p>\n
i told thad i\u2019d do anything i could for him – i yelled at him because he\u2019s driving even though one arm is taped to his stomach – and he said i could come out and drive him around and help him with doing, well, everything, since he doesn\u2019t have use of his arm. i said, sure. <\/p>\n
it\u2019s nice to have good friends, but they require CONSTANT CARE AND SUPERVISION. maybe they all need to move here to spfld, where it\u2019s much too flat to hurt yourself hurtling downhill.<\/p>\n
unless you were to go sledding at pasfield park, which as far as i\u2019m concerned is SUICIDE.<\/p>\n
ok then, go ahead and IM me in the next day or so (unless, of course, i\u2019m HIDDEN),<\/p>\n
grace always vigilant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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