There is nothing worse in law school then having the network go down. For any of you that have sat in a boring lecture, it is astounding what happens when you take away that connection to the outside world. Basically, it is like lopping off ones arm. I find this comical, since I sat in many a boring lecture in college. Not only did I not have internet, but I did not have a laptop. I wonder to myself, as I sit here, just how in fact did I survive the dark ages of laptoplessness.

And then I realize that I had the equivalent of all the toys I have on my laptop, just in a less technical form. IM? I had that in college. Ask my friend trish, or look in the margins of my notebooks. They were FULL of conversations, as we sat next to each other and “talked” through notes allllllll during class. Diversion games? Hangman was popular in my genetics classes. And there was always the diversion of doodling in the margins.

About the only thing I couldn’t do in college that I can do now is check my e-mail and surf the web. And honestly, I need to do those things less. I am a compulsive e-mail checker, and thus I get 1 or 2 messages at a time. In college, I would leave for the day, and would come home to like 30 messages. That was kinda fun. Nothing makes you feel cooler then 30 some odd actual messages from people who need your attention (we are not counting spam. Spam sucks.)

Happily, my network is back up (I typed this on word, so as to avoid that crazy listening thing in class.) Maybe I’ll listen to class now. Or answer a question or something. Sure…