“Last night I played a blank tape at full blast.  The mime next door went nuts.” 

It’s all about perspective…isn’t it?  This past week I signed up for Twitter for the baby updates.  I might already have my own personal Twitter account and I might follow a famous bike rider/cancer survivor, but for this blog let’s just say I Twitter for the arrival of the baby. 

There are endless possibilities for social networking: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter just to name a few.  I don’t have a MySpace page.  I’m already bored with Facebook and really only use it to lurk.  I probably sign on to Ava’s page more than my own.  Her friends are crazier than mine so there are far more funnier updates/pictures. 

Then one day I signed up for Twitter, now this is more my speed.  One quick line item or a picture.  You can say “I’m off to the grocery store” and be done with it.  You don’t have to worry if little Bobby is feeling better, what Marc’s favorite beers are, if you really match your Zodiac sign.  Twitter just tells it like it is. 

Which is why I decided to do the baby updates in Twitter.  Its a quick 140 character text -> hit send and suddenly the entire world could know contractions are 1 minute apart.  Plus, knowing Ava as well as I do, if I take 5 seconds too long to send a mass text to all our friends, I’m out of the will. 

“HONEY…put the phone down and do something.” 

It might make for a funny story 2 months from now but not so good in the moment.  And in this ‘want results now’ world that we live in, I think I’ll have 3.2 seconds to tell everyone ‘waters just broke…holding steady,’

or ‘it’s a ______.’