Ever just feel the need to write?  I usually keep a journal, have this blog and write letters to friends to quench my need to write.  However, for the last month and half I have been out of the country working at a summer program in Switzerland.  Due to time and several other factors I haven't gotten my dosage of writing that I like to get.  Therefore I am here, feeling the deep desire to write something but not knowing what to write about.  So, lucky readers (or reader, or maybe this is just for me) you get to have a dose of my mindless drivel.

Some thoughts on my mind at this moment include, heavily, the new job I will be staring in the fall.  I am really excited about the move that I am making.  It is definitely up the ladder and at a better location, but the need to prove myself, or at least to meet expectations, is weighty.  I have a lot of work I need to be doing and to catch up on and to begin and to figure out.  Ack.  Plus there is planning and decision making that needs to be done.  Yay!  Overall though I am just plain excited to see where the year takes me.  I'm pretty sure it will be epic and an emotionally and spiritually healthy change for me.

I have also resolved to get rid of facebook.  A friend of mine here in Switzerland said that if I did it he would.  I was on the fence about it then he said he was definitely doing it at the end of the session before he heads back.  It inspired me to stop just talking the talk and do it.  So it is good-bye facebook.  The reasons for this:  I am tired to shallow relationships that are harbored on facebook.  Sure it is nice to contact people that I perhaps wouldn't contact otherwise, but it is almost always just to say, "Hey, long time no see!" and that's it.  From now on it will be a deeper conversation because it will be over email.  Or maybe even a hand written letter, or a post card.  Who doesn't like to get a post card!  If there must be a quick message, send a postcard so the person also get a picture of something!  I am also getting rid of facebook because it is getting a little too big brother for me.  It saves everything, tracks everything and knows exactly what you search for.   Anyway, it's a big step and a big choice, but one I am feeling pretty good about.  About a week from discontinuing it I will start putting up status updates saying, "In one week I will delete my facebook page.  If you'd like to talk to me, please email me.  If you don't have my email address message me before Friday and I will send it to you."  Then after five days or so, it will be over.

This is something I have thought about doing for a long time.  I think it will be difficult to live in a facebook world without facebook, but I think, in the end, it will be for the best, for me.  I know facebook is good for some people, but I don't think it's good for me.  I need more than facebook can provide.  The next step after getting rid of facebook?  Maybe I'll get rid of my cell phone.  Then maybe I'll ditch my lap top.  Who knows, my life may become wonderfully simple.  That or it will become horribly boring.  We'll see.  It's an experiment.  A worthy experiment.

Anyway, I guess that's all I have to say for now.  I am off to do some of that work I was talking about earlier.  Wish me luck!