I despise cellphones. When I have a car I'll get a pay-as-you-go and leave it in the glove box for emergencies, but that's about it. When I leave my place it means I am doing something fun and do not wish to be reached.
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Heh. I like it so if one of us has Thomas the other is reachable in an emergency. Also, Jen's car is a magnet for people who don't stop at stop signs and red lights. Cellphone + Broadband = No more being beholden to Verizon.
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I absolutely concede that cellphones are useful, but for me -- and I've had one before, it was my only phone for four months on one of my co-op terms, so I know what I'm missing -- the disadvantages outweigh the advantages such that I'm not interested in paying for one.
Heck, if the phone in my apartment starts ringing off the hook, I'd be liable to just shut the ringer off and let the answering machine pick everything up. If someone wants to do something spontaneous with me, they are welcome to come knock on my door.
I'm probably showing my age here (heh), but there's a fundamental disconnect between me and text messaging. I just don't get it. I mean, I more or less understand the principles, but if I was going to do that sort of thing I'd try to get set up with a Blackberry so I could use real email. But really, when I'm out in the world I just want to be out in the world. These days I'm actually not even taking my iPod or GBA with me a lot of the time.
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Yeah. On the one hand I feel young; I actually feel like I'm too young to be out in the workforce doing the job I'm doing full-time and earning full-time dollars for doing it. But on the other hand I feel old, because I just don't get stuff like text messaging, which is ubiquitous among people a mere few years my junior.
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Oh, darn. I missed the cell-phone number auction.
No, I don't have one. All phones are the devil, and the portable kind are the worst of them all. Funny, normally everyone's *against* me on this debate.
Anyway, yeah, it really is too bad that I can't meet the rest of you, but firstly, there's no way I can afford a hotel and secondly, I have a whooooole lot o' work to do this weekend, that's technically supposed to be done by Friday. Heh. Oops. But I'll be sure to think of you having fun for the rest of the weekend while I sit in my windowless lab scraping dirt off of fox-bones with a toothbrush. Not that I'm jealous...
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Wow, I'll never think of my job as boring again, even when there's nothing to do but post to Hatrack.
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Are you making fun of *my* job??? But it's so interesting! And I'm not even being sarcastic! I actually love it. And I don't just clean bones; I get to identify and catalogue them too! But no, really, it is pretty cool. I get to do other stuff, like draw up site maps and work with all sorts of Northern artifacts. And even the bones are neat, because you get to see all the pathologies, and see what they were eating at certain sites, and once in a while you find other artifacts in with it, amber beads or whatnot. Admittedly, this might still sound kind of boring, but it's really fascinating when you know about the context of it all! Honest!
Okay, I'm done now. Just had to make sure you all knew my job is cool on the inside, at least. And we all know it's the inside that counts. (Although I really do wish there were windows...)
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I was joking, if you couldn't tell. I could never do that, though- I would go stir-crazy within an hour.
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I think Asta's job sounds pretty awesome. A lot better than caring for and creating games and teaching small screaming children!
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I'm mostly packed. I've been packing intermittently between bouts of other stuff. Since I'm only bringing a backpack, it's not like I have much to worry about.
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Me, too. I actually *thought* about the clothes I'm wearing/bringing, which is pretty much a first. Ultimately, though, my pragmatic side triumphed over my nascent fashion sense as a consequence of the space constraints involved. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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Whoa. People pack more than an hour before they go somewhere?? Weird. I imagine I'll pack (as in, grab my wallet and a book to read on the bus) about, oh, ten minutes before I go. The joys of day-tripping.
I just finished some more hours at work, and now I get to go home, work more in the morning, go for acupuncture (gah!), then study and write my **LAST UNIVERSITY EXAM EV-ER!** (Who, me? Ecstatic? Nooo.) tomorrow night, and then get up and go meet you all! I must be excited; I'm onto counting activities left. (I'm too lazy to count hours like everyone else.)
Oh, and, yes, I knew you weren't *really* making fun of my job, but I'll take any excuse to wax enthusiastic about, well, anything.
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quote: When I have a car I'll get a pay-as-you-go and leave it in the glove box for emergencies, but that's about it.
twink, I don't know about Canada, but in the US you can get one-time-fee emergency cell phones. (Oh look! They cover a bit of Canada. But you probably have better choices.)
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Considering I had 3 pairs of shoes and a pair of sandals with me for a 3 day model EU conference (1 pair sneakers, 1 pair brown dress shoes, 1 pair black dress shoes, and they were some very nice utopian rope sandals from East Wind, plaid's previous intentional community), I'd say at least that many.
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