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Daily Post Day 38: Life Without the Internet

Post author By helene
Post date February 7, 2011
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I wonder if any of us (who’ve grown up with the Internet) could live without it.

Ask me if I could live without the Internet.

……

Yes and no (I tend to answer this way a lot).

YES, I can live without the Internet because it distracts me to no end to get things done both on/off the computer. If I didn’t have Internet, I would certainly accomplish more tasks and stuff-I-want-to-do than aimlessly surfing the web for random tidbits.

NO, I can’t live without the Internet…for the fact that it keeps me connected to many people who are not physically close by. Text messaging/SMS has become more prevalent in US culture in the past ten years, but I’d rather not be charged money for an international text if I can just easily message a friend online.

Then again, I wonder….if we didn’t have the Internet, would I still even remember some people from my past?

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Hot Dog Days My San Francisco Chronicles

Daily Post Day 37: “The One Who Got Away”

Post author By helene
Post date February 6, 2011
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Summer of 2008

I was a hot dog vendor (remember those days?).

I didn’t think too highly of my appearance at that point in time, because I was in the midst of weight-loss mission #2 (#3? I can’t recall now…).

Short-haired and not enjoying the heat coming in through the back of the hot dog stand. We had the shades on but that didn’t help. I was alone at the cart that day, standing in front of Juicy Couture close to Union Square (San Francisco).

He approached me in a clouded vision. I looked up and was face to face with a man I had never met before, but he was quite attractive to me. Tall, wavy brown hair, surfer-type. He spoke his words with a smirk as he uttered his order in a unique accent. A European?

We exchanged our sheepish smiles and then he walked off to wherever he was going. I figured I wouldn’t see him again. That cart rarely got return customers, and he looked like a tourist to me.

But then he showed up again the next day, again by surprise. Shy smiles exchanged once again. I remember gushing to a visiting friend that I hoped he was a local.

He visited the next day again, and he actually dropped me some tip money at the very end after we stared at each other intensely and smiled the same way.

Those moments brought my work mood up and I looked forward to seeing him again the following week.

Monday came, and no sign of him.

Tuesday came, and the same result.

He must have been a tourist after all.

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Note: In case you’re wondering, oh curious reader, no, I am not pining for this mystery man anymore. An amusing few days of our mostly-silent flirting, but it made for a good tale.

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Daily Post Day 36: Life in New York

Post author By helene
Post date February 5, 2011
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Drizzly, cold rain.

Earlier I took a stroll through Union Square to check out the Green Market. I’ve been here in New York for the past week, and so far the week has been an eye-opener on what I enjoy and what I don’t enjoy.

Yes, I left San Francisco. And even though I feel sadness for leaving my loved ones and friends there, I had to leave.

Being back on my home coast feels comforting. I also got myself registered for a Gotham Writer’s Workshop (1-day Intensive) at the end of the month. I’ll study Food Writing; exciting! Perhaps that’s my calling, at least in the nonfiction realm.

Well, back to the family for now.

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Daily Post Day 35: Teleport, now!

Post author By helene
Post date February 4, 2011
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Teleportation is something I want to be reality so badly. I get a thrill out of traveling (who doesn’t?), and it’d be so much easier (and more affordable) to have teleportation around.

First place I’d go to? Where my heart is currently residing.

Next, Palau.

And then, wherever our hearts will take us.

Of course, teleportation should only be available to people who knew how to use it. But that probably won’t happen–it’ll eventually leak out to the masses. And that’s when chaos will occur.