Sunday, August 28, 2005

Sunday Afternoon Pondering

It's 2:30pm and I am still in my purple comfy pants drinking coffee and absorbing sunlight. My sheets are hanging on the line and my work clothes are begging to be washed. I could get up and take care of them- but no, I am here with the closest thing I have to a boyfriend at the moment- my laptop.

What does that say about me? Is it wrong that I am thinking about naming my laptop as soon as I decide if it is a he or a she? Sanchez or Mia? Hmmm...

As I contemplate my attachment to technology and if I need to seek professional help for some disorder I receive a text message over my cell from a friend who is currently at her second job at a local gym. She says, "I just had a guy preach to me that hurricane Katrina is God's judgement on America..."

Oh dear. Shall I even go here?

No. I will just ask this question- Technology and Globalization in the Information Age- Tools to bring us closer or weapons to widen the gaps between the haves and have nots, the educated and the ignorant, the left and the right?

Undoubtedly, it isn't that simple- but, what do you think?