Control 2009

So, a few days ago, I turned on my goldenberry, aka blackberry, as part of my usual morning routine to read emails and the news. There was an email from an address I did not recognize. Generally I would just delete but listening to my instinct I opened and read the email. The email was from goldenberry stating that I need to update my password. Questioning the authenticity of it I moved forward anyway. I went to my computer and could not get into my email there either. Same kind of message popped up on the monitor. What in the blazes is going on?

I need my morning fix of emails before starting my day. It matters not to me if its junk or not. Can Daily Candy survive without me reading their daily updates. Surely there is a new fantastic cookware or gadget I need to know about from williams-Sonoma. And most beneficial, I need the latest coupon from Lord & Taylor. It could be 50% off everything in the store, no exclusions. I need everything they have NOW!!

After trying to access my email account a few times (the number of times is not really relevant of my sanity) by repeating the same exercise I figure its time to get pass my crazy loop and move on to solution mode. It did not help following the instruction on my goldenberry. So I went back to the computer and still nothing. OK, what next? Let's try help from Earthlink and see. There is a live chat option so I got Nicholas who was very polite but totally useless because I still could not access my email account at the end of the session.

It became an obsession. I should be getting ready for work instead of freaking out about this situation. At first, I thought it was about not feeling connected with humanity as if I was adrift at sea all alone, this is early morning high drama. But as my frustration increased I had to stop and examine what was going on with me. It was not about feeling out of touch with the world. It was not about isolation. It was about the most basic of emotion, feeling in control.

With some real help from a second live chat session later that morning, situation was solved. My email account was hacked into and it would take up to 24 hours to fix.

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