My day is normally broken up into manageable units by sporadic IM conversations with Reagan. These conversations normally consist of Reagan telling me about what is on Oprah, and me telling her about the crap that I read in the paper. Today, when I got to work, I saw that Reagan was already online at like 9:30, which is normally before she even gets to work. I sent her a hello, then kind of forgot about the convo, while starting to do work stuff. I sent her a few follow up notes until before going into a CLE course around noon. I knew that there was no way she was booked so solid that she couldn’t even send a quick reply telling me she was busy. At first I thought maybe it was part of an April fools joke. Nope. I had a couple of voicemail messages when I came back from the course. One of them was Reagan, telling me that she had left her phone at the house, this morning.
I never realized how much I took for granted being able to talk to her whenever I wanted. It is kind of scary how much we rely on technology to keep each other posted, chit chat, etc.. The craziest part is that I can hardly remember life without cell phones. Worse yet, I can hardly remember life without being able to surf the net from my phone. It was only, like 5 or 6 years ago. How in the world did I manage? Is my phone making me stupider, by functioning as a mental crutch?
Times like today also make me wonder what would happen if there were some sort of catastrophe, when we were on opposite ends of the island. How would we get in contact with each other with no phones?
I read an article recently on about.com about how people hate doing online polls. So I figured that I would include one, here.
