Fab Friday: "I felt so powerless!"

Well, I am currently writing this at my favourite hang out spot downtown...obvi Starbucks at Bedford & Bloor. But unfortunately I failed to bring my laptop with me so I am updating on my iPhone. Forgive my mistakes for I am quite jittery and suffer from major "auto-correction"itis!

As I sit here, drinking a lovely upside-down grande caramel macchiato, surrounded by MacBooks, listening to the music that is playing, and sitting under a light source...all I can think of is how happy I am today.

But yesterday was a far different story. My Thursday, which can only be defined as if I was stuck in the past, plagued with a house full of unusable "future" appliances, was awful. That's right. I was without power all day.

And why was I at home all day on Thursday, since I have class from 9am until 4pm? Well, Having attended a TFC game the night prior, and drinking all afternoon, I woke up with a massive hangover. And with Logic class (defined by the University of Toronto as philosophical calculus) at 9 am Thursday mornings, I was in no condition to attend. And with a paper due in the near future, I thought a day off would serve me, and my headache, well.

About ten minutes after waking up, and nearly 5 minutes into what I can only imagine to be an amazing episode of Criminal Minds, the power goes out. At first I thought that I was simply without TV, and a little disappointed, I wandered over into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee. And I was in dire need of said cup of coffee! But a coffee maker requires power, and I was powerless, literally.

Realizing the multitude of the situation I was facing, I looked around my kitchen at a small room full of completely useless appliances and complete uneatable food. I was without a car, and in no state to be wandering to the closest restaurant, which would be Amazing Teds, to enjoy breakfast.

But I could survive the next hour without food or coffee, right? I could just start working on my paper, right? Yeah, that would be a good use of my time, right? Wrong. So Wrong. Not only did the power out last much, I mean MUCH, longer than an hour, but I had failed to plug in my laptop to charge the night prior.

And it hit me. I had no food. No coffee. No TV. No Internet. No computer. And as the temperature dramatically dropped outside, only to make this day worse, realization that I had no fan to circulate the heat throughout my house. "I felt so powerless!"

My only hope was my phone, which was at half battery. I tracked the outage on an interactive power grid online. The outage caused by a fire nearby, left me and many other people stranded in a world in need of electricity. It is funny. We grow up surrounded by these simple items that end up becoming so necessary. And you never plan a way to get around needing them, because they are so basic in the retrospect of our lives.



It was a rough day to say the least!

Things such as the News, which one would access via the Internet or TV, is simply out of our reach. And even appliances like a coffee maker become useless. What we would do if something occurred that actually changed the way that we needed to live? What would happen if we simply stopped making electricity.

Well, I certainly hope to never find out! As the world becomes more and more dependent on having power at all times, we are losing the ability to live without it, even for a few hours...or eight, EIGHT HOURS!

Is it a bad thing that we have become dependant on electricity? No, not in my eyes. As I look around the room full of people, I couldn't even imagine a time without it. This is the evolutionary path that Humanity has chosen to take. To invent electricity. And to make nearly everything reliant on it.

Well, anyways. I curled up on the couch with my Nano under a blanket and slept all day. I finally gave myself a day off. And at around 5pm when the power came back on, I had a big breakfast...and finally that cup of coffee!

xx*courtney.