So today was a good transition day from all the techy business of yesterday to planning and preparing for my technology detox starting tomorrow. I’m really excited to just reset and recharge and create a really significant experience for myself!
I am really happy with where my website is at. Again, just for now – I tend to change my mind like a mad woman!
I must say, I am thoroughly amused at most other quarantining people’s experiences being compared to a prison. I mean, yes okay there is a guard sitting out in the hall 24/7 and we can’t leave our rooms or talk to each other and we don’t get a say on what and when we eat. Still, a soft bed, bathtub and flatscreen isn’t exactly my definition of a penitentiary. But I would take yard time over access to the internet, any day!
Since the live streams is gone and although I stopped caring or thinking about what I was doing in front of it, I feel a little bit more alone in the space… so that was an interesting observation. But now I can dance around the room naked and completely carefree so really, I’m winning.
It’s really easy to feel like i’m the only human on the planet while in here and so whenever I hear a rap on the door indicating my food has been delivered, it completely startles me and I jump… every time. Then I go back to my little bubble. That and the retched loud ring of the phone when I get my daily call from the nurse checking in on me. I am impressed with their efforts and grateful for the concern but can I just slip a note under the door saying “don’t worry, i’m still alive” instead?
No, I kid I kid! I really do appreciate it. I just wish I could opt out of it for the next couple of days so I can really disconnect…
Which brings my thoughts aboard the next carriage… ‘switching off while being confined’. Like I have mentioned previously, I really don’t think I have the will to go without music for longer than a passing thought, unless silenced by the ambient sounds of nature. Alas, I am in a hotel room in the middle of a city so this is something I’ve had to consider. I decided that I will try and go as long as I can from the moment I wake up , without music and will use my small table fan as a buffer until I give in. I will then result to the radio (that very luckily came in the hotel room) but will limit myself to only the Fine Music channel which is predominantly classical music, which will probably be more beneficial than anything for this specific juncture.
To reiterate the plan of action – I will almost completely restrict myself of technology. No phone, no laptop, no TV. That plus no humans and nowhere to go. Just paper and pen. I won’t be completely unstimulated as I have books, paints and a yoga mat. I am giving myself a minimum of 24-hours for this experiment but depending on how it plays out, I would like it to go on for longer. This is also means no blogging (gasp – here’s me hoping someone will notice!). That means going back to writing my thoughts out on paper which is really two hobbies in one for me (note to self to do a calligraphy course). There’s something I really enjoy about putting pen to paper. Even if I just write my unnecessary, 32 character long name over and over, or a to-do list on a day I have nothing important or urgent to do or just amateur scribbles of whatever object is within my eye line! I am excited and intrigued as to where my mind and creativity will take me. But more than anything, just a forceful rest on all accounts.
I was very pleased with the menu today! I had a big baguette stuffed with smoked salmon, caper dill mayo, onion and cucumber, side of Lebanese salad, rice cakes with peanut butter and 3-mini donuts again (plain, sprinkled and chocolate). Then a crumbled smoked cod cassoulet with broccoli, an eggplant and lentil salad, Mediterranean antipastos (stuffed grape leaf, gherkins and more), pita bread AND another bread roll (the way to my heart), and a slice of coconut and mango cake. I already can’t wait for whatever they serve me tomorrow…
So anyway if you are reading and enjoying my blog (or even if you aren’t!), please feel free to go back and read from the first entries until now and come along this journey with me! Otherwise I guess I will be typing out my past entires once I emerge from my cocoon of (hopefully) creativity but more or less ‘regeneration’. And with that, adios and stay tuned…