As of July 2, 1996, I am an IRC-Addict-In-Exile. For some reason or other
my internet account was closed down. I *did* have some kind of prior notice in
form of an email from my SysOp - in Slovak, of course. The only words I
understood in it were July and 2 - I guess I should have known they weren't
referring to Canada Day... <G>
Oops... turns out Canada Day is on
July 1, not 2... oh well :)
I was on-line (of course) when the account closed - if anyone had been here with me at the time, they would have burst out laughing at how I suddenly became all energetic and ready to DO SOMETHING about it. In no time at all I was dressed and on my way to the university to see what I could do about the account - and we're talking about the same Vered who normally is too lazy to fix anything - thus accumulating an alarming amount of non-functional household appliances - but GOD FORBID anything happen to my computer!
On my way to the university, I reached the daring decision that if I could NOT get my account back, it wouldn't be such a terrible thing. No, not because IRC (my main activity on the net) had suddenly become boring or anything, but because... well... I *was* supposed to be doing exams wasn't I?
I've been off the net for nearly 3 weeks now (I'm back in Slovakia, trying to do exams... out of past experience I decided to wait with the net account till I did some exams). I have to say... it's not so terrible! I find myself doing things I had forgotten were part of real life... simple every-day things like coming home, making popcorn, sitting on the couch eating it, drinking diet coke and reading a book... not in a hurry to logon to check email and then just 'peek in to see who's on the channel...'. I'm *finally* getting enough sleep - might actually not fall asleep in class when the semester starts next week. And my friends have stopped complaining that I care more about IRC than about them.
I *do* have email - from uni though, not at home, but at least I can keep in touch with some cyber-friends - perhaps that's why I'm not as frantic to get back on IRC as I was last year when my account suddenly got disconnected.
I'll be back on IRC pretty soon - my examination deadline has been postponed so I'm going to have another go at studying *with* IRC - a mistake, I know but still, in spite of all I just said about not missing it too much... I *do* miss some people there and email just isn't the same as online talk...
