Toga!

We had a pretty awesome Toga Party at my house this weekend, the kind of party that despite only inviting close friends attracts random people off the street. The kind of random people that wander into my bedroom and decide they want my laptop more than the free beer we were already providing. So yeah, my laptop was stolen on Friday. I still have my desktop, but I pretty much haven’t used it since I discovered the joys of internetting from the comforts of my bed many months ago. Aside from the occasional, but increasingly rare need for a Windows machine I hadn’t turned on the computer I’m currently writing this on in close to a year.

In the last few days I’ve found it quite strange, and I suppose amusing, by how much my daily routine has been altered by not having my laptop. Any day I didn’t have to wake up early for something, which is generally well over half of them in my current state of post college laziness, I’d roll over around noon or 1 and grab my laptop off the floor. I’d then sit in bed and read up on gaming news, maybe write a blog post, and chat with a few friends for an hour or two. Around 3, I’d actually get out of bed and take a shower, then start whatever it was I wanted to do that day. Usually I just ended up migrating to the couch in the living room to play some games. My parents must be so proud.

I’d also generally end my days by crawling into bed around 3 A.M. and repeating my waking procedures before falling asleep around 4.

This morning however, or I suppose I should say this afternoon, I woke up and realized I had to get out of bed before I could do pretty much anything. I still ended making a few phone calls before getting up, but the point is I was forced to get out of bed before I could really start my day. As silly as that sounds, I have gotten so used to my laptop that I just laid in bed almost dumbfounded about what I should do. It eerily reminded me of when I quit playing World of Warcraft back in 2005. I had spent a few months doing damn near nothing but going to class, sleeping and playing WoW. Once I quit, on a total whim I might add, I was left wondering what it was I used to do to occupy my time for about a week. That’s how my day started today, though within minutes I ended up just getting out of bed and booting up my desktop.

God, no wonder nerds have such a social outcast stereotype surrounding them. Everything I’ve mentioned so far, aside from the toga kegger my roommates and I threw make me sound like a total recluse. Oh, and I guess the shower. If it makes me sound any better, I was actually busy enough that it took me almost two days to realize my laptop was even gone. Of course that might just make me sound worse, depending on how you look at it.

Anyways, I’m getting my desktop back up to speed and will soon be back into my pre-laptop routine of just getting out of bed and moving to my desk in the early afternoon. It’s going to be harder to find things to do when I visit my parents now though. Maybe I’ll actually start using my PSP again, or maybe I’ll get a real job using my education and be able to afford all kinds of new electronic devices. My sound system has been acting up since the party as well; perhaps this is all a sign for me to grow up. I doubt I’ll listen, I hardly ever do.