The internet service at my employer was unavailable for nearly two days. Upon arriving at work yesterday, an announcement sent by the Information Technology team described the outage and that they were working on it with the hopes if it being restored by the end of the day. Yet, after arriving for work this morning and seeing that internet service was still unavailable, I was reminded of a conversation between my enrollment counselor and me nearly two years ago: He said: “What would you do if your internet service became unavailable and you had an assignment due?”

Funny…that scenario was intended for the home-internet failure scenario not the other way around. My response, of course, was that I would hop in the car and head to work because the internet service there is always available.

Not.

It became painfully obvious how much I rely on my internet connection at work to allow me to quickly accomplish tidbits of my schoolwork during breaks on the job. Five minutes here and there, during lunch and just as I shut down for the evening… I was unable to do any of that yesterday and most of today.

(Not that I should be…ahem…)

 The internet service was restored today about an hour ago. I immediately dropped what I was doing and logged into my classroom…what did I miss in the discussion forum? Had my instructor posted any grades? Any comments? What were those website links I needed for this week’s assignment?

It is like an obsessive-compulsive disorder…I need my classroom fix several times a day. Is that weird?