Week 9 tasks

Frustrations of the fictional neo-luddite

Sophie was having the best dreams about winning scrabble to her flatmate tim last night, until she slowly drifted awake to the harsh sunlight beaming on her face. Crap, it's midday and she slept through her wound up alarm clock again. The quiet bell just isn't enough to wake her up from her good dreams anymore! Unlike herself, sophie's classmates had all been woken up by their mobile phone alarms at 8 o'clock promptly and had been in lectures all morning.

Sophie rushes out of bed and gets dressed to the quiet hum of the cars outside her window, every now and again catching parts of Britney Spears 'Gimme More' which is being played in the flat next door. She quickly leaves for the 40 minute walk into uni with only her thoughts to keep her entertained.

As sophie realises shes missed all of the day's lectures she walks into the library to try and make up for the lost work of the day. She cannot find a spare table anywhere to get her notebook out and write notes so she has to sit at a computer space. How the hell does she log into this?? She presses a few buttons and after an hour realises the password is her uni number. The library is filled with the mixing sounds of everyone's IPods and mobile phone conversations. She remembers the days when library's were strictly silent.

After constant struggling to get to grips with the computer, the patronising looks from the people sitting next to her get too much and she decides today is a lost cause and leaves. The long walk home gives her time to think about the day's frustrations. Maybe in today's society there just isn't room for a neo-luddite like sophie....