BIG BAD WEB

Its been ages since Ive stepped foot on cyberspace.

Rewind to a couple of months ago...

Dawn breaks over the perpetually hot and

smoldering city. Even if the term hot..hotter..hottest

has been done to death in describing the city's weather,

nothing else conveys the true fact so bluntly and

effectively.

Ive hit the snooze button for the umpteenth time.

Ah, the pleasure of a few stolen moments of sleep...

I open my eyes a crack and check if there's sufficient

light flitting through the curtains. Oh not quite-so time

enough to turn over and snooze a wee bit. That's when

it dawns on me-literally and figuratively-I haven't set

foot on cyberspace for eight long hours at a stretch now.

OMG!! Horror of horrors!! I make a mad rush to the

bathroom, slosh some water over my groggy eyes and

dash over to the PC. Here comes the tricky part...

Now, I would seriously suggest having a silencer while the

system boots. The wretched thing makes an assortment

of noises-whoosh, pop, blip, beep....guaranteed to bring

even the heaviest sleeper crashing onto Mother Earth

from La-La Land. The shrill beep of the UPS brings

some faint stirrings from the bedroom which I successfully

quell with some soothing words.

When all is safe and sound, or rather, soundless,

I merrily start checking my all and sundry mail accounts,

blogs, tweets, facebook, orkut, minglebox etc. etc.

By the time Round One of this ritual is complete, I get a

feeling that someone must have logged on by now and

posted something interesting somewhere in my cyberscape.

So its Round Two now of mails, blogs, tweets etc.

Time flies by...

Daughter's lunch bag stands by desolately neglected...

she looks even more so. But not bad..not bad at all...

Today Im only an hour behind schedule.

And so, then started my de-addiction program....

No more setting foot in cyberspace. Power corrupts

and cyber power corrupts absolutely. Im determined

to stay away from the corrupting influence of the big

bad web...until my hubby relents to all my cajoling,

threatening, pleading and our Net connection is restored.