Re-Entry

Lest this blog should lie dormant for another year, I’m reporting back from vacation. Well okay, I have been back since Sunday, so I did my bit of procrastination as usual, but three days is not really that bad, is it?

I had a great, relaxing time with some fascinating new experiences, almost never wearing shoes (other than flip-flops), going everywhere on my bicycle, feasting on seafood, reading loads of great books, tumbling about in the surf, and best of all, taking some kite-surfing lessons. What fun! Not that I’ve mastered the art yet, but I’m not going to rest until I can do it properly.

It felt weird logging on to SL for the first time after my return. The first weird thing was that I waited a whole day before I did, not because I was making a deliberate effort to exercise restraint, but just because there were all sorts of other things to do and I just didn’t feel like it.

When I finally did log on on Monday, I noticed that it felt different. My main interest was getting in touch with my friends, and I found my attention was all focussed on IMs and chat, to the point that I hardly looked at the visuals. One symptom of this is that Dylan is still wearing the same clothes he had on when I left three weeks ago. Somehow, I can’t be bothered to change. I said to a friend that SL doesn’t seem to feel as immersive to me as it used to – she thought that is a good sign, considering my history. Maybe she’s right.

At least, I didn’t log on on Tuesday either – the weather was too nice, so I preferred being out in the garden, battling my old enemy, the bamboo. (Did I ever mention that the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was shot in my garden?)

Off now to go swimming.