computer in my pocket

I got a new phone last week. A smart phone. It's bigger than my old flip phone, but I have to keep reminding myself that what it lacks in tiny-ness it makes up for in ability.

My old phone was 4 years old. I'd missed an upgrade somewhere along the line so I was stuck with it longer than usual. But, for the most part, I didn't mind. I knew how to text and take pictures and make calls and that was all I really needed to do. But then I started to get picture messages from my friends that I couldn't really see because my screen was so small. Then it got to the point where I couldn't even open them because the file sizes were too large for my baby phone. I started to count the days until my scheduled upgrade.

But I also feared it. I used my phone all the time and I always especially hated having to get used to new texting software and predictive text and, perhaps most importantly in this case, I knew I would miss the actual keys of the phone. Although touch screens are where it's at right now I knew the haptic feedback of my tiny flip phone was going to be the thing I would miss most. That, and being able to put it in my pocket.

So I have to remind myself that my new phone is more than a phone, it's a mini computer. I can go online, facebook, twitter. I can use the map apps so I will never have to worry about being lost ever again. I can play games and waste all kinds of time.

I can even write this blog post.

The future: it's in my pocket. It's a thing that's happening. And I'm stil not sure how I feel about it...

the future

In two weeks and two days I will be home. 2 weeks and 2 days. 2 and 2. 22. Just like how old I am. Coincidence? I think not. While I know that I will be sad later, just like when I realized I was graduating, right now I am very anxious to just get the ball rolling with the rest of my life. Being here in Ecuador has been a really cool and enlightening experience and I am very very glad that I came, but sometimes I feel like I am just treading water while the rest of my life is on pause and waiting in the wings. Wow, talk about a mixed metaphor.

But really. For the first time in my life it seems that I have a real goal and I am excited to work towards it. And by work I really mean work because it is going to be really expensive to live in Boston and go to this bookbinding school, but I am so SO excited about it I can't even say. I figured out the financial logistics today and I'm going to have to make between $1500 and $2000 a month from December to August if I want to be able to pay for housing and just a third of tuition for the first year. I think I can do it. And by I think I mean I will because it will be so so so cool. And bookbinding completes me. That is all.

the future

Even though we live in it we don't know everything about it.

Things to think about.

google? what kind of animal is that?

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He built a windmill. In front of his house. Out of trash. Based on a picture he saw in a textbook written in a language that he did not speak. He brought electricity into his village and changed their lives forever. All I can say is: What a man.

because yellow fever is good for no one

This morning I left Boston at 5:30 am. That's right, 5:30 AM. Why so early you ask? Because I needed to get back to NJ in time for an 11 am appointment to have needles stuck in my arm. It was great fun. Actually, it wasn't bad at all. I needed to get vaccinated against Yellow Fever and Typhoid for my up coming Ecuador trip. The Typhoid shot hurt because it went into the muscle but the Yellow Fever one just stung a lot. But I tell you what, both of those are nothing compared to what would happen if I actually contracted either of the two diseases. You know, lots of pain and possibly death. Yay for modern science! Think about it: vaccinations are shots OF THE DISEASE! And they keep us from GETTING the disease! We live in the future.

pigs

We live in the future. This article (written by my friend Erin) makes me think of that movie The Island. You know, where rich people pay big bucks to have clones made of themselves so that if they ever need organs or limbs or whatever they'll have a spare, but they don't know that the clones are self aware and then some (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) escape and it creates a big hulabaloo. So, imagine The Island, but with pigs. That, my friends, is our future.

we live in the future

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