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Going Off the Grid
By Betsy Richter | 6:03 pmI’m on vacation as of 5:01 pm today.
It’s been a break that I sorely need. A break that I’ve been longing for. And it’s coming just in time (my poor co-workers have felt the sharp edges of my crispy-crunchiness for days now.)
So tomorrow morning, I’m setting off for this place. I’ll walk along the beach – a lot. I’ll decompress, de-stress, and just generally unwind some of those tightly-wound knots in my psyche. I’ll even dive into a few of those arcane printed devices that some might know as ‘books.’
While I was talking to a colleague today, he told me that although the surrounding hotels didn’t offer much in the way of wifi, I could always walk down a few blocks to a very nice library with free Internet connectivity. He was stunned and amazed to learn that I’ll deliberately be going (mostly) computer-free for the next nine days. (“You? Really???”)
In fact, I’m going off the grid. No work email. No work phone calls. No personal email for days at a time. Phone calls? They’d better be important ones.
I’m even going to pull the plug on my beloved Twitter connections for a few days.
It’s time to set my digital life aside for a bit and reconnect with my heart… mind… soul instead. Hopefully, I’ll feed the parts of me that need sustenance, and water some long-untended gardens.
And with any luck, I’ll like the person I meet when I’m done!
Topics: I'm *Serious* Here | 2 Comments »
August 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Sweet! Diana and I just did Sylvia Beach Hotel last weekend. The decompress in the Shakespeare room was much needed.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I’m in Virginia Woolf first night, Jane Austen on the second night (they told me that most people want to switch rooms if possible, so I went with it…)