I love my BlackBerry.
Tomorrow and Wednesday, I’m going to try going unplugged.
I’m a little nervous.
I am an email addict.
Facebook beckons.
I just don’t know how it’s going to go.
I’ve done it before, both times by mistake, sort of. The first time, I took the thing with me to the wilderness of Maine, only to find that I had no service for the entire 3 days… I returned to hundreds of emails.
The second time, I forgot my charger on a trip to Ogunquit, Maine… so I had to shut it off so it would actually be functional if I needed to actually make a call on it… again, hundreds of emails come Monday morning.
Now, you might think that this is how it should be… people shouldn’t do work all weekend.
But it makes me feel better to have it with me, to know if something major is happening with one of my clients or my colleagues, and the thing is damn handy with that little camera on the back of it. Who knows how many missed photo opportunities there will be without it in my pocket?
And that little Facebook application? VERY handy for entertaining one’s self when in line somewhere… or sitting in the car waiting for Megan to come out of Starbucks… those kinds of things.
Now, I understand that it’s not, nor should it be: love me, love my BlackBerry, and I’ve gotten more than a few eyeballs from just about everyone I know for my overzealous usage.
So here we go, straight into my discomfort zone. I may get a severe case of the DTs.
Or, *gasp*, I may find that I rather enjoy not being connected 24/7… and then whatever will that mean?
