Old-Fashion Girl

No one sends me email anymore. I have really begun to feel unpopular. However, now I realized that no one sends anyone email anymore. Email is so last year. Text Messaging is the new email. I don’t really text message. The best I do is to send my daughter a “BRT” when I’m on my way to pick her up from wherever she is. She laughs at me because my English teacher mind is paralyzed by the shorthand of texting. I spend untold numbers of classroom hours railing against texting and how it is destroying my students’ ability to write. Now I find out that texting is the best way to keep up with my adult friends. What’s a woman to do?

My friends have sent me repeated requests to join Facebook or MySpace, but I refuse. I don’t have the time to keep up this blog or write let alone “tweet” or post my every move on Facebook. Besides who wants to read, “BRB changing dirty diaper” or “banging head against the wall; student wrote UR in a paper.” Just the fact that I used a semicolon in that example shows that I’m not a texting, tweeting kind of person.

I think I’ll try to bring back letter writing–anyone up for an epistolary* relationship?

*Epistolary: Relating to or denoting the writing of letters, or literary works in the form of letters.