Because sometimes people ask me what I've been doing and what my plans are. (Hi Mom.) Since hopping out of my Lower East Side apartment two weeks ago, I've been crashing with my friend Ken in the Seaport -- as detailed in my last post -- and now I'm up in Westchester, sequestered away in suburbia as I catch up on writing things. I just turned in a story for an e-anthology coming out this fall, I'm trying to get some projects ready to sell, and I've been doing some heavy duty catch up on Internet related things.
Most of the latter consists of answering emails, removing half of my RSS feeds, mucking around with blogs, and trying to get back into some equilibrium before I head off again. At the beginning of next week I'll be heading to Pennsylvania for a sec before breezing through Washington DC and Ocean City, Maryland. Then it'll be August and I gotta figure out where I'm gonna live and where I'm gonna be. The only thing I know is that I'll be back in Southern California around Labor Day. That's pretty much the outline of my life for the next month, thanks for asking. Yukon ho.
So far the evenings with my cousins prove that we are clearly related. The three of us sit on the same long black couch, with power cords tethered to each of our laptops as we browse around doing our various webby things. Chloe is generally Facebooking or Tumblring, with occasional lean-ins to show me a video or something I just have to see. She keeps me updated on teen-ish trends and makes fun of me for things I don't know. In turn, every time I visit I try to revamp her online life by demanding that she try Turntable.fm or download Adium. She got her Spotify invite two days before me, which was mortifying and perhaps a sign that my #1 tech cousin days are numbered.
My younger cousin, who's still in high school, is always watching or reading her various manga series online. Her computer is a hand me down that loudly churns -- the fan is broken -- as it serves up her addiction. Sometimes she gets sent out for art lessons, or daily pipa practice, but otherwise she's just hanging out this week, in-between squash camps. For both of them, eating meals is a big imposition that requires the lugging of laptops from the couch to the dinner table.
In the other room, my aunt and their mom is similarly attached to a computer, watching her favorite Chinese soap operas and news. Basically this entire family is Internet addicted and it serves me perfectly. Surge protected power strips in every room!
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