That episode sounds like one of my many horrible dreams (I used to die so frequently in them that I eventually developed the defense mechanism of killing myself in my dream before anything else could get to me).
A while ago the author of the Animorphs book series and I were emailing back and forth.
Oh man, how'd you get his e-mail? Ages ago, before I knew Animorphs was jointly written, I tried hunting down his wife's e-mail to tell her how much the series meant to me and how it really kicked off my reading obsession--but apparently they're very private people and don't just leave their contact info out there. (Maybe that's changed! I haven't looked recently.) It's pretty cool that you got to chat with him.
Edit: And in more scary news? I lost my cellphone a while back, but I only use it once or twice a year, so wasn't rushing to replace it. Twice last week my car didn't start on the first try. Talk about scary, not having a phone in that situation... No pay phones around, would I have to walk in a store and ask a clerk to borrow theirs? c.c I have a new phone now.
I had something like this happen to me a couple years back. I got real lucky that time and the person who found it replied to the last friend who'd texted me and agreed to deliver it to them; until I returned home and learned that, though, I was just barely functioning. Didn't help that I was in an unfamiliar part of the city at the time.
It's funny, though; just ten or fifteen years ago most of us wouldn't even have cell phones, and any worrying we'd do would be about the cost to replace it and whether or not we had any sensitive information that might be accessed. Now we're expected to be available for calls or texts 24/7 and feel completely stranded if we lose or forget the damn things.
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Date: 2012-08-28 07:32 am (UTC)A while ago the author of the Animorphs book series and I were emailing back and forth.
Oh man, how'd you get his e-mail? Ages ago, before I knew Animorphs was jointly written, I tried hunting down his wife's e-mail to tell her how much the series meant to me and how it really kicked off my reading obsession--but apparently they're very private people and don't just leave their contact info out there. (Maybe that's changed! I haven't looked recently.) It's pretty cool that you got to chat with him.
Edit: And in more scary news? I lost my cellphone a while back, but I only use it once or twice a year, so wasn't rushing to replace it. Twice last week my car didn't start on the first try. Talk about scary, not having a phone in that situation... No pay phones around, would I have to walk in a store and ask a clerk to borrow theirs? c.c I have a new phone now.
I had something like this happen to me a couple years back. I got real lucky that time and the person who found it replied to the last friend who'd texted me and agreed to deliver it to them; until I returned home and learned that, though, I was just barely functioning. Didn't help that I was in an unfamiliar part of the city at the time.
It's funny, though; just ten or fifteen years ago most of us wouldn't even have cell phones, and any worrying we'd do would be about the cost to replace it and whether or not we had any sensitive information that might be accessed. Now we're expected to be available for calls or texts 24/7 and feel completely stranded if we lose or forget the damn things.