Personal Narrative: The Information Blackout

The information blackout was about as hard as I expected. I chose the day carefully so that I would have fewer issues than if I had, say, been out and about all day. Mother’s day was Sunday night and my mom, sisters, and I had a nice relaxed night in listening to music, making dinner, and hanging out by the fire. The hardest part was not being able to look up song lyrics, which occasionally we wanted to know. I did not force my family to join me in my project. If they wanted to look up the lyrics they could and just keep the information to themselves. Otherwise, this group is really fun to hang out with and making it difficult to ignore my phone. I rarely get on YouTube, sports channels, or watch documentaries. My main source of music is Spotify, which, with the student discount, I am able to get without ads. I often stay off social media other than the odd notification from someone that I am really close to and I had already previously decided I didn’t enjoy the constant buzzing of my phone so I rarely get on Twitter or Snapchat and am on Facebook even less. This part was as expected because there are days where I have gone without notifications from these social media outlets.
On Monday I went back to my job as a nanny, but it was a quiet …show more content…
There was one email from school that was urgent that I had to check and one of the apps I had not thought to turn off, Netflix, informed me that season 4 of Sherlock was now available for instant streaming. Finally, I had forgotten that my aunt had graduated with her masters and wanted to go out for a celebratory dinner. We went to El Mariachi and the room was covered with televisions that were online. This became an obstacle, but it was so loud I was able to ignore the TVs by doing my best not to look in that direction (who wants to watch golf at a Mexican restaurant