Technological Intuition

It's no big secret that a lot of the older generation (ahem, parents) lack a little of what the millenials are calling technological intuition. I don't even know how or why it exists - could it be that computers were such a large part of my formative years that they are embedded in my brain? Or is it that I grew up alongside the computer so we are on the same level? ... Regardless, I find it pretty easy to pick up a new program or computer and just figure it out - something that seems near impossible for Mom to do. Whenever we discuss the computer the notepad and pen come out. There she goes scribbling down "USB, cord for camera, on-switch" to know how to move photos from her camera to iPhoto. Maybe it's just me but something like that is second-nature.


For her birthday this year we got Mom a new macbook, it's beautiful, I am in lust with it and try to play with it any chance I get, which usually means teaching Mom something about it. So yesterday we first tackled how to create a playlist on iTunes and burn it to a CD. After multiple tries I began to feel incredibly subpar for not getting it right on the first try, I mean how many freaking times have I burned a mix CD for that guy in class!? It's the new mix tape which was the new love note passed in class ... which I guess was the new "stand at your window and throw stones" thing. Finally I realized Mom had her iPod plugged in and the playlist I created was in her iPod not iTunes ... duh. So then I had to explain how one cannot burn a CD from an iPod or transfer music from an iPod to anywhere but can put music from iTunes onto any iPod or CD ... complicated shit.

So we tackled that and moved on to putting music onto her own computer instead of always using the family computer. Ahhhh that big monster machine full of random school files and lacrosse team photos.

This is my life, seriously. I teach my parents how to use electronics. Go to yoga and the grocery store with my mom (which, let's face it, are kind of my new hobbies) and listen to music. Right now Big Jet Plane but Angus and Julia Stone is my favorite, it's so beautiful - check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTvbcNhEgc

And their songs where Julia sings more than Angus are so ethereal and strange, some of my favorite qualities in female singers.

So other than that, yesterday my mom and I went to the mall, debated over the differences between wireless mice (mouses?) and finally purchased one, perhaps today's excitement will be educating my mother on the terms "nano chip" and "cordless mouse"

My life has become utterly thrilling in all aspects. This little sanctuary of four walls and a door that can close has become the place I am twenty-two in because otherwise I watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey with Dad and grocery shop with Mom.

Who knew graduating from college would be this promising?

Eventually I'll go on an adventure beyond Wegman's and the Bravo Channel, beyond yoga at the JCC and the apple store. Eventually ... I'll take a ride on a big jet plane and follow my dream to be more. But for now I'll stick to living rent-free.