Stop screwing around on the internet

My computer died a couple of months ago. Without a computer at home it’s very easy for me to not waste time online

:(

especially craigslist

Laptop cord has been dead for two weeks now. No job, can’t buy a new one just yet. So…I havent done much online. Sadly, I havent made any blog posts. I havent really been to 43anything, no real surfing of the web aside from job posts…so I guess at this point I’m doing well on this goal.

But I miss having the internet in the comfort of my own home!

There’s some guy in Africa who is trying to be my boyfriend. Yes…Africa. Africa is kind of far from where I live. Talk about your long distance relationship!

I joined this site about a year ago – takingitglobal.org , and never got as active on it as I wanted to be. I haven’t logged in since…well, since I joined!

Then a few weeks ago, I get an IM from this guy….in Africa. I wasn’t (and still am not) too amused by this guy. I have a problem kicking people to the curb (yes, even random internet people I have no attachment to). So, when he IMs me, I keep my answers kind of short “yes” “no” “oh ok” etc etc.

Well, things took a turn a few days ago. One second he was asking what kind of organization I wanted to be part of, next thing I know he’s asking me if I have a boyfriend and why not. Then he rushed off. Tonight he IMed me and picked up where he left off. I asked why he was asking why I wasn’t in a relationship…and he said he was my secret admirer and wanted to know if I thought distance was a barrier to relationships. Well, yeah it is – IF YOU’RE IN AFRICA AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU. Its not like we went to school together then he decided to joint he Peace Corp. Shoot, if that was the case, I’d be his forever…but no, he’s some random guy who knows how old I am and what my major is and what city I live in and he hopes its not a problem that he wants to be my “lover.”

What the hell? I’m winning over guys in Africa and I can’t even go on a date with anyone in my zip code!

Sometimes the internet is scary.

I spend more time on the internet than anything else. I really need a job.

Partly because I havent had many outside the house activities to participate in.

Partly because its so easy to be online doing not very much while the hours slip away.

Partly because I have a sizable number of online friends and “real” friends that I talk to online and I’m in a place right now where I feel like if I’m not talking to people all the time, I’m going to fall off the edge.

It’s just too easy.

I spent most of yesterday online, fooling around, doing useless things. I mean, a lot of things peopel do online are useless, but I was just being stupid. What a waste of a day. Help!!!!!!!!1

I want to read all of your entries, but I simply haven’t got the time!

(And it also sucks because I can’t use my cheers!)

So, I’m leaving it to you, since I won’t have personal internet access for at least two more weeks to comment here and tell me what’s going on with you.

Come on, you know you wanna….and since comments come to my inbox, I get to read them all (even if I don’t get to respond as quickly as I’d like to).

Come on, come on, come on!

I’m subscribed to 80 people on here…most arent serious consistent updaters (which is kind of a good thing, because that would make reading these entries a full-time job). But I realize that so much of the community here comes from the comments back and forth on entries…so just reading the entries that you’ve made as opposed to reading the subscriptions page which has everything you guys post leaves me lacking the depth I felt I had before amonst our little 43T community. That makes me sad :-/

The computers are in the library where I’m staying, which means they are shared, so I can’t spend hours each day on the internet. That’s a good thing. Sure, the library is open 24/7, but I don’t really want to sit here at 2 in the morning. But I do miss reading the things all of you have to say. I think Im going to go person by person and read your latest entries, but I wont really have time to read my subscriptions page and go through all the comments and things you guys have made :-/.