Going Dark

The Urban Dictionary definition of "going dark" is as follows:

To disappear; to become suddenly unavailable or digitally out of reach for an undefined period of time.

I'm pretty sure it's intentional for most people who go dark.

It wasn't for me.

On Saturday, I ran a race.  In a torrential downpour.  And, ultimately, ruined my iPhone.

(Sidenote:  I really REALLY hate that the iPhone isn't water resistant.  Someone at Apple needs to fix that.  Pronto.)

Because I can't be trusted am practical, I have phone insurance.  So, they shipped me a new phone.  Which didn't end up in my hot little hands until Tuesday afternoon.

That meant I was without my cell phone for two-and-a-freakin-half DAYs.  (Cue the dun-dun-DUUUUN! music.)

This obviously is not a post about how you should turn off your phones and Be Here Now.  I am not THAT person.

But, I didn't know I was THIS person.

Fine, I couldn't call or text anyone.  That was cool.  It was the weekend.  I didn't have time to kill at work (not that I'm not diligently working all day every day, of course).  But, there were no less than 50 times during the day I went to grab my phone to:

• Check the weather
• Access my music
• Facebook stalk
• Look at pretty pictures on Instagram
• Confirm this guy on TV was the same guy who had guest starred on an episode of 90210 in '95
• Launch iBooks
• Access my music
• ACCESS MY MUSIC!

And I certainly couldn't run the last 3 days.  I didn't have my music and I didn't have RunKeeper to tell me how fast I wasn't.  So, while dark, I had become:

• a hermit (I can't go out if I don't know the weather)
• my mother (without proper knowledge of good music)
• a non-stalker (this no FB thing was actually a good thing)
• depressed (with no pretty pictures to look at)
• confused (where have I seen that guy on TV?)
• dumb (according to the kids' principal, I lose brain cells by not reading)
• fat and lazy (no running)

Now that I have my phone back, all is right with the world.  I checked the internet (on my new phone!).