You see, there's this huge
electricity crisis going on in
San Diego right now, where electric bills are doubling and tripling and what not. This has caused us to
cut down on things as much as possible. For one, we now use candles here and there instead of lights, mainly to light the halls. Another thing is
turning off the computers when we are not going to use them for long amounts of time, such as going to work or going to sleep. Okay, no big deal, I thought.
I was wrong.
As strange as it may sound, the first night that I was forced to do this I lay awake
unable to sleep. I couldn't figure out why until I noticed
the stillness of everything. The total silence. The emptiness. There wasn't that
reassuring hum or that
crunch crunch as it tried to think. My computer is right next to my bed and it's been there since I was twelve. We've never turned our computers off. It's
too quiet.
It isn't right.