Pride

Now Serving Psychiatry at its Finest (no sarcasm)


Maybe the difference between an addiction and a passion is that an addiction can jeopardize itself. Some people would play WoW through a lightning storm; some drug addicts would dope themselves broke.

Everything is a little diminished after a brownout, and moreso after the next. I think we went that way willingly, we of this community struck by brownouts. We got a little high off of our dazed electronic equipment, waking up in a stupor, only (on one occasion) to be smacked down before waking.

Without my computer, I'd be cut off from the ways of knowledge-gathering I know best. I'd be cut off from fascinating stories about people like Jerald Block, or things like this. I don't go out to buildings that house people and groups I'm interested in.

Everyone likes to talk about lightning storms as little microcosmic hubris tales, and I guess it's fitting. But I like it this way. I'm a human being, subject to the world I live in, who needs to know when and what to adjust in response to that world. I will die, after I've been a moving part of the world. This is something to be proud of.