Today due to my stupidity I have come to work without my blackberry or my iPhone. I have left them charging by the side of my bed. I plug them in there every night and every morning I get them before making my way downstairs. I have no idea why I forgot to pick them up this morning. Well actually I do – I was thinking about why we’ve only had any sort of contact from the Labour and Conservative candidates in the General Election and nothing at all from the others and nothing about the council elections at all. Anyway I was thinking about that when I was packing my bag instead of thinking about what I needed to be putting in my bag. Apart from the total worry that something will happen at work and people will be trying to get hold of me and wondering where I am the worst part about not having either with me is that I’ve nothing to do on the train. What I’m actually doing is writing this post by hand so I don’t know how I’ll get on for the rest of the day. I won’t post this until lunchtime or this evening but as I write I am filled with dread at being out of touch an also sort of liberated that I’m writing in a note book instead of reading twitter or facebook. I have to say I am the only one writing – there are a few reading the Metro or a book but mostly people are phone focussed on this train today.
Of course once I get to the office it’ll be alright. I’ll have my laptop and my desk phone to keep me connected. This journey is only 30 mins or so on 2 trains but the need to feel occupied or utilising the time some way is really strong. I keep catching myself thinking “I’ll just check gmail when I’ve finished this” before I realise that I can’t do that. I’ve thought that 3 times whilst writing this. Am I really incapable of just sitting doing nothing. It certainly looks that way.
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