Awareness of the outside world. British Library: Keitai shousetsu: the first mobile phone fictions. Horne 2018. BTW, drupelets is the correct term. I should not have doubted the BL.
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It was horrible!
I had no cell phone! For over! a! week!
Phone store: Fabulous Offer! Sign here!
Us: This isn’t the same offer? It’s 6 times as expensive? Plus an extra line?
Phone store: We’ll adjust it later! Sign here!
Us: Noooooooooo.
Sure, we still have a land line (gasp) but make a phone call and sit on one place?! Like an animal?!
Is it going to rain? Do I have time to pick up hay?
Hey, what was the name of ….? You mean I have to walk aaaaall the way into my office to look up random factoids on a desktop? Next thing you’ll tell me to use an encyclopedia!
If I saw a cuteness I could not take a picture! The horror!
I’ll text the chef to see what he wants me to pick up at the grocery store. No, I won’t.
I had to ask an actual human being for directions to the nearest post office. How antiquarian!
Two-step authentication. With a phone currently impersonating a brick.
But, but, the points are all weird on the online version compared with the app!
This is temporary? Right? The new part will be in any day now? Right?
No timer to remind me to feed!
Phone store: Come back, please. We’ll be good.
Us, dubious: Okay.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
We live in the North Country.
We have snowstorms.
As in now.
We lose power sometimes.
But everyone does.
So we veg and take the day off.
I can’t imagine no phone alone!
Welcome back!
At least I got a blog post out of it.