Cut off from the outside world...

At about 5:00pm last night our internet on campus went down. It was a fairly stormy day with lots of wind and rain, even some thunder and lightning, so perhaps that had something to do with it. Anyway, we didn't have any internet connection and it seemed like every time I planned on doing something that I thought didn't involve a computer I realized that I needed the internet; for example, to look up a recipe, print off a picture to colour, or watch a movie (on Hulu). I got through yesterday evening alright, but then this morning I went in to the office and tried to think of things I could do without any internet. I managed to think of a few things but I was surprised when I went to listen to my favorite radio station (CBC radio online has become my connection to Canadian news) or look up some fact that I needed in order to enter something into the database to find that I was shut out. Much of my course material is also online and I began wondering if "my internet was down" would be a legitimate excuse for not doing my homework. To think, just a few years ago I could go for days without being online and a few years before that I didn't even know what the internet was. How things have changed. Well, as you can guess, our connection to the outside world was restored once again this afternoon, so now I have no excuse not to get my work done.

(Now be honest, how many of you thought that my title, "cut off from the outside world" had something to do with a crazy Mennonite separatist movement or something? --- I thought so.)