A common buzz phrase you hear now is "stay connected". The strange thing is that I find it to be a daily struggle to stay truly connected- to actually have personal genuine human interaction on a day-to-day basis. Sure, I can talk to all my friends from college in one mass email, I can almost anyone, almost anywhere, and I always know who's on IM when. But it becomes a series of digital friends. I could have hundreds of relationships with people whom I've never met, and my primary interaction with those I *have* met ends up being yelling about work across a table cover in beer over the din of the stripey-shirted pretty-smelling sausage party quickly overtaking the bar. Going back to my apartment alone with my guitar then doesn't seem such a bad existence after all...