Extra #3- Three days later

Hello all...it's been weird not posting for the past three days...I had gotten into a habit. Here's a Nicole life update from the world with the phone and FB access fully restored.

The night I turned my phone on, I was terribly disappointed after being text bombed 10 minutes before I turned it on, and the fact I only received messages from the 26th to the 30th because of some server holding thing that Verizon has on all text messages. So that was kind of a let down. I really did miss my phone. My text count was down by almost 6,000 messages on our last bill (February 20-March 20). I've been hittin the number pad on my little phone faster than people can reply. It's definitely nice to have that back. Facebook on the other hand, I could go another couple months without. I realized that it's a place for whining about your life...here's an actual status from one of my FB friends, "Ugh should not have stayed up so late cause I feel like a zombie and just wanna go back to my bed and pass out and not wake up til rehearsal." It didn't better my life any to know that he stayed up all night and now posted it for everyone to pity him. Yeah...that's what a month without Facebook did to me...made me realize I should censor what I post. Funny and important only. Stupid statuses are virtually worthless.

Goodbye fellow blog readers! Nicole is over and out :)

March 30th- DAY THIRTY

Today's the last day...the day I've been awaiting for thirty entire days. It's 10:41 now and now I just sit and count down the minutes until midnight. Morgan and I lived out our days together without Facebook and our phones. Her day went a lot how I predicted that it would. I asked Morgan how her day went and what her thoughts were about going an entire month without both, "I had a very peaceful day because my friends with phones are super annoying. I honestly think what I would miss most about my phone is my constant access to the time. Facebook's no big deal, but my phone is my security blanket." I'm ready to see who's missed me over the course of this month. I'll be writing one more post tomorrow and that's it. No more blogging for me. It's hard to believe that this month flew by so quickly and even more than that, that this semester is virtually gone!

March 29th- DAY TWENTY NINE

Hi blog readers :) Meet one of my bestest friends in the entire world, Morgan. As you all know from keeping up with my blog, tomorrow is the final day of this immersion project. I've only been whining for 29 days now how boring my life is. Well tomorrow, Morgan is being a trooper and giving up her phone and Facebook to live out my final moments with me. Tonight at midnight, she's gonna turn off her social technology and experience one day without it. Although this is only a very small portion of what I've gone through this month, I think that she will find her day peaceful without the distraction of others. Don't worry, I'll let you know how she feels about it and what her feelings are about going a whole month.

Now. Daily Nicole update. Today was surprisingly good. Tuesdays and Thursdays are the bad, busy, long days but everything went pretty smoothly. I went to the Students' Composers Forum with Morgan tonight for her music history class, so that took up and hourish of our night, came back, showered, dealt with some homework, doing this blog, and what do ya know, it's bed time! I like days like today. I think tomorrow will either drag on so slowly or go by really quickly. Morgan's returning my key to my lock on my desk drawer tomorrow. I plan to get my phone out early to charge it (not turn it on...don't worry), since it was dead when I turned it off. My roommate, Melissa, agreed to stay up til midnight with me and party on our futon until I get my phone back. Only 26 hours and 8 minutes until I'm texting my life away! I'll give you more of and update tomorrow! Good night!

March 28th- DAY TWENTY EIGHT

Before I get to the real blogging about boring stuff...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH!


I know she's out there, reading my blog to keep up with my life and the world needs to know it's her birthday! Now to my daily update. People are getting kinda funny. Everyone is counting down the days for me now and it makes me feel super loved, like they've missed me during my immersion project. March has flown by and I'm really glad for that. Today was an alright day to live without Facebook and my phone. I love Mondays. Only two classes and being done by 11 is what I'm talking about. I got to take a nap today and continue putting off the reading of The Communist Manifesto for my history test coming up too soon. I'll get it done, just not now. I've been warned by my roommate that she's gonna spam my phone and Facebook wall with lots of messages right before I turn everything back on, just to be annoying. Gotta love her. Anyway. Tomorrow is what I'm considering my last full day of this immersion. From then on out, I will be counting down the hours. Goodnight blog readers!

March 27th- DAY TWENTY SEVEN

There's not much to report, it seems like I've been having a lot of these kind of days lately, although I guess that's a good thing. It was just a lazy Sunday in my room. Finished up my math homework that's not due for seven million years, laid around and watching five episodes of Law & Order: SVU, and really that's it. I'm ready for Wednesday to get here. On the inside, I'm so secretly excited about getting my phone back and then get to go home on top of that to watch my little sister go to prom. It's back to classes tomorrow, thank goodness I was smart and only scheduled two classes on Monday so I'm done by 11. It should be a relatively easy day. 3 more days. Let's get it done.

March 26th- DAY TWENTY SIX

The count down is going fast; only four days left. I'm getting really excited. I talked to Morgan today and she agreed to give my lock key back to me Wednesday and at midnight I will be home free. I am willing to bet that on that Thursday I will be a grumpy lady from staying up all night catching up on my texting. On top of that Thursday is Seth's birthday and I'm going home after classes. It'll be like the best day ever. It's hard to believe that almost an entire month has past.

Enough future planning and reminiscing of the past; today was a decent day as far as the immersion project goes. I was reunited with my friends and that alone makes everything better. I've also come to a realization: my weekends seem exponentially longer when I don't have a phone or Facebook to waste my days away on. I guess it's both a good thing and a bad thing. Good because who doesn't love weekends, bad because I don't have anything better to do. Tomorrow's Sunday so we'll see how the end to my weekend is.

March 25th- DAY TWENTY FIVE

Today was THE ABSOLUTE worst day of this immersion project so far. You would think that with only five days left, things would be easy. No matter how often I tell myself there's only a little bit of time left, the more people seem to tempt me. I only had one class today, my 8 am math class, and afterwards I just came back to my room and slept until lunch. After lunch, I usually hang out with my other half, Morgan. However, she went on a field trip to Missouri so I was all alone all day. My room never felt so boring. My computer felt worthless. There was nothing worth watching on TV and my roommate was busy having a life. I watched so many episodes of Confessions: Animal Hoarding, I could predict that nearly every show would show someone with lots of cats and another with lots of dogs. There was a rare episode where a man hoarded chickens; that was considerably more interesting. I accidentally did my math homework that's not due until April 8th. Even worse than that, I didn't have any meal swipes left for the week and it is during Lent now, so eating a filling inexpensive meal downstairs became near impossible.

Finally after sitting around bored for eight straight hours, I talked Patrick into going to IHOP with me for some pancakes. It was nice after all that time alone with nothing to do to go out with a friend. We took it one step further and stopped at Dairy Queen for some blizzards. Really that alone made my whole day worthwhile. Lots of calories, but I didn't care. To show really how desperate I was for something to do, after IHOP and Dairy Queen, we came back to Patrick's apartment and I volunteered to clean his room and fold his roommate's clothes. Most people would say that this is a terrible way to spend a Friday night on a college campus, but it was just nice to have some company and not be alone. I'm ready for Thursday night...well really Wednesday to come so I can count down the hours and be able to cradle my cell phone between my two hands and let my thumbs dance across the keyboard. And really, I would like to see all the disgusting pictures of myself that people have put on Facebook and tagged me in so I couldn't untag them. We'll see how embarrassing that is when I get that back. As it is a little after midnight now, I guess there's officially four days left. :)