Ideally, I'd be doing this on the train, but my schedule would never allow it. I'm beginning to understand exactly why it's easier for me to do these after the tutorials in question. Perhaps the delay between doing the readings and discussing them in class has a bigger impact on my thought processes than I imagined.
Or perhaps it's just that I'm not used to sitting at a desk and thinking like this. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that it's the latter. The pseudo-comfort zone one builds when on the move has become something of a drug for me. Blocking out the world with a pair of headphones and staring at a laptop screen in order to put down a series of ideas or enjoy an e-book is a habit I cannot say i would be comfortable breaking.
I am totally reliant on my mobile media. I'd certainly feel naked without it, and a good portion of my 'armour' would be instantly broken were my laptop or my mp3 player to disappear. It creates my 'place' and without it I'd be lost.
Unbelievable, isn't it?
Without that particular object; an inanimate object, I'd be as vulnerable as a newborn animal.
What's worse, however, is that much of today's society would probably agree with me. Without their mobile 'security blankets' life just isn't the same. The ability to send and receive information even while on the move has become so natural for us, we may as well have a mobile phone or mp3 player implanted in our heads.
People have thus found even more reasons to avoid making face-to-face relationships, preferring the reinforced digital walls of the cybersphere. More tribute to the evils of social networking.
Mobile Facebook? Almost enough to make agnostic me pray for the souls of all humanity.
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