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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : Change for the Better, I Hope"

Change for the Better, I Hope

After the incredible stress that I've endured from the computer crash and having to make the major paradigm switch of losing the phone number I've had since 1989, I'm nonetheless very happy. Both Stan and I have felt as if we've been forced down a windtunnel or tube, and come out the other end extremely quickly. We've both been extremely exhausted. It's been so fast, this changeover in technology and all. Stan got his iBook the other day, and I've been teaching him things about OS X. Now that he can connect to the internet at the same time as me without having to ask me to get off line, he can now read this journal too, so I better be good.

The ironic thing is that our friend Bill in Colorado has decided to dump his landline (losing his phone number he's had since 1979!) and go cellular too. This has all been independent of our decision...he found out about what we were doing in an email I wrote to him last week, and he was going through the same thing. This is all very weird, but I think Bill and I are psychically connected as we both bumped our head in the same place (not just on the same place on our heads, but against the same place on the van) during one of our visits out there. We would also lose sleep on the same night, not knowing the other was losing sleep too.

Something very wonderful has happened too. The guy we met at my opening, Perry, went out with Tim the other night and they got along great. At the opening, Stan suggested we all meet for dinner some time (thank you Stan, for speaking up on behalf of everyone!), so last week Stan, Tim, Johanna, Perry and I met at the gallery and went out for dinner. It was sort of a going-away party for Johanna, as she left for Italy just the other day, where hopefully she will get to teach English classes. We all exchanged numbers, and then Perry called Tim earlier this week to go out for coffee. I just hope hope hope everything works out...they are both great guys. And we're all from the same generation, so we all have that sort of ironic born-under-the-sign-of-Kennedy and early-Johnson-administration sense of humor. And Tim and Perry both come from small towns and grew up on a farm, which sort of makes them different than the more urban born-and-raised gay man. I'm just so happy they met...I just hope it works out. I hope things work out for Johanna too. We'll miss her, but hope that we don't see her too soon because that will mean things are going well for her in Italy. She's already taught in Germany once before, but it still sounds like an extremely hard thing to do by yourself. Hell, even the move from Fort Collins to Madison was difficult, and Stan and I even had eachother. But you know, maybe it was so difficult for us because we just assumed it was just a lateral move to another part of the USA and weren't expecting the cultures to be so different. I guess if we had expected a total change in culture, it would've been easier to deal with.

I love being able to get on the internet without doing anything, I love being able to talk on the phone without static (our landline is now disconnected completely...it was just unbearable its last few days). I love being unlisted too. No more strange calls about my business from people who looked up my phone number via an online search who do not want to email me instead (if I wanted to have my telephone number as a contact on my website, I'd have put it there, right?) No more phone calls from people wondering what happened to such and such web designer who no longer has a site (like I'm responsible for that and know what's up?), and most of all, NO MORE TELEMARKETERS!

5 Comments

It's good, that at least something change to the better around here (on the web ;o). Never thought about that, that the telemarketers will be gone with a cellphone. Means less phonecalls, good thing.

Posted by Nico @ 07:27:2002:06:55 PM CST

Oh I hope everything turns out great for Tim and Perry. It really seems as if they were made for each other, doesn´t it?

Posted by Nina @ 07:28:2002:05:24 AM CST

omg...no land line??? i can only imagne that one, but i know you've had alot of trouble and no help it seems. Damn! good for you! Although, i can sure remember the trauma i went thru when my parents gave up their old phone# of 30 yrs...i loved that number! Sheesh...i gotta get out more.

now about this being good hting Ann...hey, now i like your onery self, i'm sure Stan would understand. ;)

Posted by Lori @ 07:28:2002:10:33 AM CST

Didn't Perry use to be the one you just chosed to call Mark? Great it's working out :)

Posted by Nico @ 07:29:2002:05:16 PM CST

Nico,

Uh...yeah! (ssshhhh) Same guy. :)

Yeah, I hope things will work out...we'll see. :-/

Dunno.

Posted by Ann @ 07:29:2002:05:34 PM CST

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