The redhead has been thinking about the research.

This is the internet. If you are reading this, you are on it, you are a part of it, giving and taking. The internet is a new form of media, bursting from socks and hats and hidden places we never knew were there.
    Good, now, with that in mind, in elementary school I learned how to use a library. We had to learn the Dewy Decimal System. We played a game of it, running from the bookshelves to the card catalog, the first to find all the books on the list and have it checked by the teacher won. I still remember my elementary school library, the tables, each with eight chairs, the shelves at front were the fiction section, Harry Potter always hovering behind the librarians right leg as she toldus stories. The books about mythology (a very small collection that I read very quickly) was at the other end of the library and around the corner, the biographies in the back. I could probably go in there and still know exactly about it all, if it hasn't been changed around (which i'm sure it has been).
     I remember once we had to do these presentations about animals and everyone was assigned an animal. Everyone wanted to do the presentation on a cheetah or lion, I wanted to do mine on the black bear, but somebody else pciked it first and I cried. I got howler monkey instead, which was actually ok. We had to learn about them in the library using the books and then talk about it in front of the class with a special puppet that the teacher had for each person to use. Before I left the fifth grade to go to the BIG SCARY MIDDLE SCHOOL, I was allowed to make a cover for my favorite book in the library-- I made one for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.... I wonder if it is still there.
    But we are off topic!
    I realized yesterday that I wouldn't know where to go for research today if there were no computers.... if i have a question I ask google or bing or ask.com (what was once ask jeeves, but as of now has no jeeves which saddens me thoroughly). I am so ridiculously dependent on computers that I can't even believe it. And I've been starting to feel guilty about it, like it is an awful habit, like I have no idea how to have fun or operate when it's not through this damn machine. I like day when I have been computer suspended, where I can go outside and breath air and move my body ormaybe just read a book, climba tree, talk to a PERSON.
    There are obvious benefits to the internet and computers of course, it is now easierto get information than ever before, but also makes it easier to get false information than ever before instead of the right stuff. The internet is democratic with voices spewing everywhere, but if the information that they recieve in the first place is wrong, how are wesupposed to have any valid opinions or words? How are we supposed to act correctly? Everyone seems to be running away with technology! Even books are being digitalized! And I ask myself what happened to paper and pencils? What happened to a bibliography that you slaved over for hours writing out by hand?
     But overrall I do love the internet, the internet makes communicating across an oceanmuch easier, makes communication in general much easier. Love andmiss you all at home, hope you have a great week!
Deni