So... I'm working at the MSU Computer Store (high, high stress -- I hope I'll last!). The woman I'm working for/with was lobbying to keep me permanently on my first day, which makes me feel good... but gad, it's a zoo, and the pressure (combined with low blood sugar because I was so busy I forgot to eat) was nearly enough to send me away in tears this afternoon. My right leg hurt so much last night that I had trouble sleeping. Tonight I got Craig and Ken to rub my cable-like tense shoulders, and that helped some, along with a couple of "malt beverages". Dang. Smirnof "Twisted" turns out to be clear beer. sigh

Anyways... at the computer center there's no break room that a mere temp can get into, so I have been eating my lunch on a bench overlooking the Red Cedar River, and I noticed a curious thing. Of the people who passed me during the time I was eating my salad, most seemed to be wrapped in their own, isolated little worlds. Most were talking on their cell phones; some were listening to CD players, radios or tape players, but very few were interacting with the world around them.

I think we are living in an increasingly isolated world, aided in our insularity by technology.