So, I forgot how boring morning lab shifts are. So, I decided I should write a blog thing. Here I am. Let's see... what should I talk about? Well, I should be graduating this term. It's kinda scary. I'm not sure what I'm doing after school, but I'm not worried about it oddly. I think I've finally come to the realization that God knows where I'm going and He will provide.

I have a couple of options. What I really want to do may or may not work out. I'm hoping to do the teaching masters program here at Corban. But my GPA is kinda low so that may not be an option. I'm also looking at the masters program at LU. Or the possibility of going to an Asian country to teach English and pay off loans. We'll see.

I got a new cell phone last week. Verizon's "New Every Two" program is nice. I got the Cherry Chocolate for free. I like it, the Bluetooth is nice since my computer has it as well. So I can wirelessly transmit files between the two.

Being back at school is nice, but seems different. That's all, I'll talk more about this at some point. Anyway, here it is. I'll talk to you all later.

I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.

This subjective view plays odd tricks on us, of course. For instance, ‘interactivity’ is one of those neologisms that Mr Humphrys likes to dangle between a pair of verbal tweezers, but the reason we suddenly need such a word is that during this century we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television. Before they came along all entertainment was interactive: theatre, music, sport – the performers and audience were there together, and even a respectfully silent audience exerted a powerful shaping presence on the unfolding of whatever drama they were there for. We didn’t need a special word for interactivity in the same way that we don’t (yet) need a special word for people with only one head.

I expect that history will show ‘normal’ mainstream twentieth century media to be the aberration in all this. ‘Please, miss, you mean they could only just sit there and watch? They couldn’t do anything? Didn’t everybody feel terribly isolated or alienated or ignored?’

‘Yes, child, that’s why they all went mad. Before the Restoration.’

‘What was the Restoration again, please, miss?’

‘The end of the twentieth century, child. When we started to get interactivity back.’

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