Cobwebs, enthusiasm and Alphabeat

1. Days can pass with all sorts of beautiful and challenging things which happen or are acquired or which I see go past me. For some reason this week has been a bit of a blur. The last couple of days filled with little experiences which have changed everything about how I perceive the world and from my ego-centric point of view, me. I have spent many hours chatting on the Internet, discussing my day and flirting, keeping up-to-date with new information and trying to study Access database. My laptop gives me a great deal of joy and although I had a good chat with Ian about maybe buying one of those beautiful Apple Notebooks so prominently displayed in SATC this one is still good. It has been a great tool for breaking down my shyness, for meeting amazing people and working on discovering all sorts of possibilities in the greater universe. I have been a Internet fan since a very long time and it has changed socially in some ways out of all recognition from the early days of "The Well" (for anyone who can remember that far back) to the !beauty? that is MSN Instant Messenger and all the other associated social networkers.

2. OK, so that was my enthusiasm overload expressed. But not quite...networking ideas seems like a wining solution which ever way I look at it. I had a meeting with a colleague which set me off on a whole web of new connections. I spent useful time following up some of the contacts he suggested and found new connectors along the way myself. I was blown away, once again, (pretty much a daily occurrence since I can ever remember) by how keen people can be to network and support complete strangers. Perhaps I haven't understood the dark Machiavellian plots of evolutionary psychology but I'm grateful to their generosity and for their combined knowledge.

3. All of that is very wordy and enthusiastic but so what. It's just so easy to dribble. It's what you actually do that has considerable consequence. I'm wrestling with that today. My wrestling has been supported by Mr W's patient and generous time, advice and comments, letting me blurt it all out across the digital highway with him. I don't understand why anything happens? It's tempting to conclude that there is a reason for everything. But that seems to veer towards a line of magical thinking I thought I'd moved on from. So the third beautiful thing today was a new CD which dropped through the letterbox this week by Alphabeat "This Is Alphabeat". There's nothing of great purpose here, its very straightforward happy summer pop music. I like it. Nobody will know I'm listening to it, because I can hide the CD and I have it now on my iPod of humungous joy. Every once in a while a song (or two) seems to sum up the feelings and enthusiasms of the moment. This week, today, this hour their songs "Fascination" and "Boyfriend" along with most of the rest strike an embarrassingly juvenile chord. Oh well, the remaindered seventeen-year-old in me is dancing and dribbling and laughing out loud.