things I miss (and not)

Tuesday I made a list of things I miss. Here they are:

• hot baths for my achy feet and legs
• my bed
• blinds that block the morning sun
• calling people cheaply with minutes for which I've already paid
• my condo
• daylight until 9 pm
• Davis library
• my desk
• family
• friends
• being able to have guests over whenever I want, including crashing with me for the night*
• my guitar
• my gym
• fast, reliable internet
• my MacBook
• my neighbors
• feeling safe(r)
• sharp knives*
• hot, high-pressure showers
• even sidewalks
• yoga

Interesting that I miss comforts, activities and places. While I miss my friends, most of them are gone for the summer so I'd be missing them in NC, too. Same goes for family.

Then I made a list of things I haven't really missed that I might have expected to miss or that other people would miss:

• cooking
• the U.S. presidential election
• NPR
• NetNewsWire
• and the news more generally
• U.S. politics and political culture
• posting to Rulablog
• TV
• misc. websites
• Wii
• World of Warcraft

I find this list more interesting and illuminating than the other one. I'm sure I'd eventually miss cooking, but cooking for one can be tiring and it sure is nice to just have food appear three times a day. I also feel like my cooking is just starting to reach the level where I can really enjoy the process and not just the output.

Most of the other things have to do with information, technology and entertainment in some combination. I'll get caught up on reading my friends blogs via NetNewsWire when I return. I guess this makes me a bad friend, but right now I feel fine being out of the loop even though I'm sure interesting things have been happening in their lives.

When I return I'll go back to playing WoW with my uncle and some friends for a few hours a week, and I'll play the Wii a bit, mostly when friends are over. I haven't bothered with the other sites (goodreads.com, etc.) because it's a huge pain not having the passwords saved on whatever computer I'm using and waiting for slow load times). I'm sure I'll go back to them when I return, but I'll be sure to not get to sucked up. There's so much to life offline.

Enjoying tuning out the news is a subject for another post, perhaps.

I'll also do some more reflecting on if I want to keep doing Rulablog or not.

Apologies for spelling. Spell check doesn't work on this browser. I'll go back and fix it later.

* = Added since the original post.