i have, just last night, discovered the wide world of web design. not to claim i designed this page on my own. (unless you count cutting and pasting, which i don't.) no, the design is completely the work of a brilliant young lady. (check her out at lisdesign.diaryland.com.) suddenly i find myself puttering around cyber-space, trying to figure out things like "html" and how to make links appear like magic. i think i've just about got the basics figured out. just about. kinks will abound, i'm sure. but i have to admit, i'm pretty impressed with the progress i've made so far.

up until a few weeks ago, my technological experience was limited to hotmail and aim and the occassional search on yahoo. i loathed computers, convinced their innocent humming and tapping of keys was actually sinister plotting and a deranged sort of morse code only pc's could understand, all of which was a thin mask for evil plans to take over the world. soon lawn-mowers would be riding humans as our faces took on the greenish glow of the monitor. the computers would have had ample time to brainwash us into complacent compliance, considering all the time we spent in front of their screens. and i was not going to be a part of that, no siree. i was going to fight back, spend my days outside, reject all the so-called "progress", escape to an uninhabited island somewhere off the coast of south africa, wear a loin cloth, bathe in quiet lakes, be a nomad, a vagabond, a hunter-gatherer living off the earth, honoring it, not an electrical outlet in sight...

and look at me now. so excited about the most basic aspects of web design that it's almost pathetic. i'm sure there's a way to rationalize this.

i'm not jumping on the bandwagon, not really. the more i know, the better equipped i'll be to fight the computers when they take over.

this is NOT addiction. it's infiltration.