Picnicked in Europe

Technology is awesome. There is no better way to say that. Yesterday, Picnic Day (if you are reading this and you haven't heard of it for whatever reason, click on the link. It's pretty much the best day of the year in Davis, CA), I was nearly 9000 kilometers away from my friends, my band, and one of the greatest traditions ever. The days leading up to the epic event, Facebook was covered with excited statuses (statii? status?), which I probably could have done without. It just made me feel so alone over here and wish like no other that I was back in Davis. In that respect, technology can suck it but the day of, I was able to text a good friend (interesting conversation, that one ;p), and keep in the loop on the day through facebook and whatnot. As terrible as it was not being there for the first time in five years, not being able to tell someone to get some sleep before hand, not being able to see updates when people were waking up or during the welcome break for lunch or when freshmen, finished with the day, posted about how amazing their first Picnic Day was, would have been so much worse. I can't imagine living before internet; coming over here for ten weeks would have been like a death sentence (not actually that bad, and maybe it would have forced me to dig deeper than I already have over here, maybe it would have forced me to connect in an entirely different way, but that's all a different train of thought).

I'm really bad at keeping in touch with people that I don't see on a weekly basis. I've haven't spoken to anyone from high school since I graduated, except my best friend and that's most likely because she ended up going to the same college as me. But with technology! I can see what's going on in people's lives even though I'm not actually there. While most of the stuff you see on facebook is pretty trivial ("haven't finished my paper due in 2 hours but soooo tired", link to lolcat, etc.) you still get to see the major triumphs and events in a persons life. I know, a lot of the stuff that has happened to me over here, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to tell more than six or so people about. But I put up pictures and a status every now and then and I'm connected with not just my close group of good friends but also the outer rings of my social circles as well. It's different than past ways of socializing, definitely but I wouldn't say it's better or worse.

Ok, I've totally gone off from where I started here and I forget exactly where I wanted to go other than I'm glad I got to talk to who I got to talk to and that I've been able to see pictures of a place that I miss the day they were taken and that technology is awesome!