Hi Everybody!

[skewness]

I just remembered this place existed. How are you all doing? I'm stressed and depressed, but looking forward to Friday when at least my stress should be alleviated, after I take my last final exam at UConn. I've let myself go to shambles, to the point that I'm afraid to even enter my kitchen for fear of knocking over the delicately stacked

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[toothlessturtle]

Bong it up, Bongerton.

:-D

[jennylisa]

It's nice to see you again... You've been missed.

And, one of the things you missed when you were MIA was me working on my thesis. It included complete isolation, complete lack of money and food, and me hiding under my bed much of the time.

[haddmatter]

Maybe if you play more Civ3 it will come to you. :)

funny

[tefka]

I was just asking how you were

civ-crack

[che_g]

I say swear off that crack! No more wasted time suckling the nipple some virtual surrogate of the real, feeling, thinking, acting thing: human beings. Life is the greatest drug and I am hooked, but I first learned through cold turkey: I haven't had a computer for 5 months now (come to the AA meetings baby!). I use public terminals at Universities, Libraries and youth-hostel terminals- and sparingly. No more worries about computer simulations, virtual reality or Internet "society" trying to suck me in...Seriously, if you are having trouble finding meaning from the flickering lights of computer and television screens, go back to the source of all meaning: humanity; the most beautiful complexity we have yet found. The more you retract in isolation, the more vulnerable -especially under stress of grades or finances or perhaps repressed sexual drive- you are to the fragility of the individual mind. Remember, we didn't evolve in isolation; we evolved as a tribe. I am not saying we should swear off technology, I am just asking you to