T-3 Days

I am just off the phone with the insurance company and my bank, which always does so well by me. I have decided I am not going to stress. I am going to be responsible. I have my ticket there and back and what happens happens. I am going to buy myself a pair of running shoes that I cannot afford because I want to go running and my current shoes are a year old, and I do not want to return injured. I also need to buy a flash drive to store my photographs. That is the only battery-powered technology I am taking. And maybe my digital voice recorder.

I heard a quote from Betty White this morning when I was listening to WNYC AM820. She said how people love to complain and can get upset with her because she has nothing about which to complain. Betty White has always been one of my idols since I started watching reruns of the Golden Girls as a child. Now I know why.

I have paid my credit card bills. Finished a draft of chapter one of my dissertation. And am doing my best to tie up financial and personal threads before I leave.

The background color of this blog is black because that is the most environmentally responsible. The background color of my phone is set at black, which reminds me, I need to turn off my phone. I am really excited about traveling without a phone in my pocket. That used to be the way I rolled. I think it is important to remember the ability to travel and connect with people independent of the technology of a mobile phone. The internet and its technology is easily shared in public spaces. The technology of a mobile phone is much more private. For instance, I can check my email from a library; I can write a blogpost from a library; there is not a similar public access to the mobile phone. I am not going to be wirelessly networked for a few months...