To float or...to sink!

That awkward moment when your phone falls into the toilet (of clean water ofcourse) and you stick it in a bowl of rice for a couple of days? Yep, that sums up my life right now! So let's talk about how I am sitting next to the bowl of rice helplessly hoping for a miracle... For the first time ever, I actually might have ruined my cell phone which isn't even 4 months old. Yipee...

First of all, when it fell, I just thought about, "hmm what would my English class say about this one?!" Yup, as Turkle says, we have grown up tethered. I have so much time on my hands, without constant connection to all my friends, that it's not even funny. I almost don't even know what to do with myself. Today I reached for my pocket a couple of times only to be reminded of that fact that my cell phone is in a bowl of rice instead of actually functioning and ringing in my nice little pocket. Why in a bowl of rice? Well, though I have never heard of the idea, a whole bunch of people told me it works to dry up the phone so I said, "why the hell not try it?!" I'm going to need a miracle for this phone to work. 1) I need to talk to my friends, ESPECIALLY since I'm going home soon. 2) I don't have insurance on it (yay me!). 3) I am missing my distraction, alarm, calendar, and everything else I do on my phone. I feel so free that it's kind of weird. I'm not going to lie, I like this peaceful, quietness that I've had since yesterday. But I really do need to be in contact with people. I like hiding out for a bit but man, I kind of wish I didn't have to wait on emails to hear back from people. I must say, I've been much more punctual when it comes to meeting up with people and being at certain places.

Turkle would probably compare me to those people as she stated, wait for a distraction, "interruption" in their daily life. I guess in reality, I probably am just like them. I wait for little things to entertain me and take me to a different zone inside my head. I like being able to do something and in the meantime think of other stuff like creating a whole little world in my head. Maybe, I'm just being a little weird. I need to talk to my family back home and my friends there too. My cell phone is the safest way to stay connected and especially when I'm so far away. So let's keep crossing finger that it works!!