Losing touch with cyber-reality

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Date: 20 September 2008 10:27:29

As regular readers will know I'm currently getting my computer access in the media suite of the local library. It's an arrangement that is working well until I get a computer up and working at home again and is meaning I can do the important keeping in touch with people. It also has the benefit of limiting the amount of time I'm spending on line each day.

There is a downside though. Back home, before Dorothy left Kansas and when everything was "normal" I had access to my list of favourites. This had a list of about 30 non-Wibsite blogs that I would check fairly regularly, many belonging to friends who I want to keep up todate with. Therefore, I realise that whilst I'm finding it easy to keep up with my immeadiate circle, via the wonders of technology there is a slightly wider circle, or set of circles that I'm finding it harder to keep up to date with. Some of these are circles which are ones I'm only part of as a consumer; regular reader but some are those relating to people who come in that grey area between acquaintence and friends. There are also blogs I've not been keeping up todate with where good friends known to me properly in real life post what's going on, in a slightly different way to Facebook status' and the like. So it does worry me what I'm missing now.

Think that's a v.long way of saying that, atleast temporarily, I'm realising that the move has involved a variety of changes and losses which I hadn't thought about and been able to prepare for. It's strange how after a few weeks it's the little things which are starting to hit whilst somehow the bigger things are getting kinda easier to deal with. Don't get me wrong, this isn't intended to have been a "poor me" post I'm v. much on an adventure and of course change and some loss is going to be involved. However, I think in many ways it was these types of little things in my routine which helped keep me feeling safe, I guess that's what I'm trying to articulate this morning I'm def feeling that the stabilisers have been removed and I'm wobbling my way along.