evites

I just (finally) sent out all my invitations to my graduation party via evite.com.

The evite thing has me thinking...on the one hand I think it's an excellent idea, the ability to invite people via email, over the internet, but on the other hand, there's so many people I want to invite who don't have email, like my brother and his wife, or maybe they do and I just don't email them. I guess to me it's one more step in the direction of having our lives laid onscreen, online, in the digital world and it concerns me slightly.

I suppose it's a little ironic (or black pot kettle-y) that I'm even writing this online, but I am. I know I can reach five or so of you who read this and convey my thoughts to you. I could wait until we're face to face to say these words, but I might have to wait for a while in some cases.

Many people have wondered if books will become obsolete, and sometimes, when I realize how much I do online, I see the trend going in favor of online. And I actually don't think that books will be transferred completely to computers (the audio books still win over reading a book length's worth of words on a screen), but I do think people will eventually stop reading books because they're too busy with their computers to read, and there will be a movie of it anyway (i.e. popular The Da Vinci Code which was just released into paperback is closely followed by a theatrical version soon to be released) so why bother to read the book.

As a writer hoping to make a book someday, this is obviously a concern to me, but that is way abstract at this point. The truth is, I love reading books and I haven't read a book in over a month, and the last book I read was for class (Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina) and the last one I read before that was a long time ago. Okay so having five classes a semester leaves me little time for reading, but some people have far more pressing things to occupy their time. The idea that the market for books might dry up in my lifetime and I will watch people turn to their televisions, movies, and computers for something faster, condensed and visual is sad.

I will be a bitter old lady, I think.

and the evite process was eerily easy and free of problems. I think it took all of an hour. hope you can make it!