hello. i'm here. i'm listening to new radicals because they rock. i'm serious.
my foot hurts like a bitch because last night when i was running around naked i stepped on a damn sick. it stuck me.
be happy. do what you want. fear nothing.

I prefer the list to the blog.
Blogs you read out of order, and that drives me crazy.
Although I haven't been posting to the list much lately, for I have been ill.
I prefer relating information about MYSELF only through my own personal blogger. :)
So I answered NaTHan's question.

Bridget: Okay, I guess I can see that (your thing about being used to blogging rather than writing e-mail, that is), but it still strikes me as a bit odd. Oh, well. If you prefer writing here to there, then do so. I am curious, however, as to whether anyone else feels the same way. Who prefers this to the list, and why? (You can leave out the "why" if you like, but that would make it more interesting.) Personally, I prefer the list, for several reasons, but I have no problem with this blogger being here, and I'm probably going to keep posting, as long as I have something to say.

Leigh: I'm not sure extra credit would have helped much, considering how low my grade was. And I don't know much about how they make pencils, but I would hope they aren't still putting lead in them.

jim: I pick choice F: "Bob Scott's Funhouse."

Bridget: If blogs are killing the list, it seems to me like a list blog wouldn't end up being very successful, unless people abandon their personal bloggers in favor of this (which I certainly don't plan to do). That is to say, if people don't want to post to the list because they've already said everything they have to say in their bloggers, then they wouldn't have anything to say here either, would they? Perhaps I'll be proven wrong, but I'm not sure a list blog is really a logical development from the list being killed by blogs, as you seem to imply it is.

Just so you don't think all of my posts here are going to be about how posting here is pointless, I might as well say that I've never had a pencil point lodged in any part of my body, but I DID once run a needle from a sewing machine through my finger. It was in my seventh grade Home Economics class, the only course for which I've ever received a failing grade for a marking period. The needle actually came out fairly easily, but the doctor (or was it the school nurse? I really need to remember these stupid moments in my life more accurately) didn't know if it was entirely out, so I had to get X-rays taken. No permanent damage was done by either the needle or the failing grade, however; I ended up with a C for the course, because the sewing segment had been preceded by one on babysitting. Fortunately, we didn't have to practice on any actual children; it was all just written tests and stuff.

Anyway, that's my tale of a stupid injury. Thank you, and good night.

In response to Leigh's pencil post:
That sucks!
When my brother was about 13, he sat on a couch in nothing but tighty whities, and sat on pencil. The tip went through the fabric, and into his butt. Since it's actually graphite (it hasn't been lead for a long time), and it wasn't hurting him, they didn't do anything about it. Too bad it's graphite, and not lead, just for the fact I could say, "My brother's really got lead in his butt." But I wouldn't want him to get lead poisoning.
I ramble because I'm sick.
*nods*

hello! i'm here!
... it's about damn time too, huh?

leigh:
waugh and expletives! boo on pencils getting lodged in your hand! gor blimey!

naFan:
i'm not neglecting the list in favor of this, and i'm not sure the list will move here. i think that *maybe* this will split off into it's own thing (at most), and *maybe* some of the people here will leave the list, but i don't think that this would replace it. different things go on here than there, and by that nature, anyone who wants to keep up with the list will have to stay on it ...and we are all, after all, still checking our mail, are we not?
besides, the list has made itself into a sort of institution, beloved by it's members. maybe we *should* feel loyalty to it, i mean, we *are* very close-knit...
anyway, that's a bit of what i think about it, i haven't thought up the rest yet...

It just seems to me like, jim's point aside, there's no real advantage to this over the list, and there are several disadvantages, so why not just stick to the list? And Kristina, while there might not be a POINT as such to your relationship, there are certainly advantages for it over your NOT having it, aren't there? I really don't see the advantage to a group blogger when we have a perfectly good mailing list. If pretty much everyone else decides to neglect to the list in favor of this, though, I'll post here, because it's better than nothing.

Why do people insist on pretending they have a speech impediment when they mention Beth's name? Or mine, for that matter?

Kristina: I didn't exactly say posting here was stupid; I just said I didn't see the point. If you do, maybe you could tell me what you think it is.

I can see jim's point, although, like Leigh, I've never had problems with getting a lot of e-mail. In fact, I've been disappointed with the amount I've been getting recently. As for Bridget's comment, well, I really can't see why one forum would be any more inspirational than the other, but to each her own.

eriKa: Two posts isn't a whole hell of a lot, but it's probably more than an "Am I hot?" site deserves.

I guess I could understand why you might want strangers to think you're hot if no one you know thinks that, but I don't think eriKa is in that situation.

I'm not entirely sure I see the point to this. If I have something for which I want replies, isn't it easier to just post it to the list? It's hard to reply directly to things here, and, if I don't want any replies, I'll just use my own blogger. Since a lot of other people seem to like the idea, and I have replies to some of the comments made, I'm going to make at least this one post, though.

Why does eriKa care whether total strangers think she's hot? And, if she doesn't, why did she make so many entries about it?

I don't really want it to be February, although I wouldn't mind speeding up time to the point where I've finished graduate school and have an actual job (if that's ever going to happen). The whole situation raises some pressing questions, however. If time speeds up for everyone, including me, would anyone actually notice it happening? And, if time speeds up for everyone other than me, wouldn't that leave me right where I am now? And what would be good about being where I am now a few years in the future, at which point the rest of the world will have expected me to progress beyond this point? I think the best idea is just to avoid the whole issue by leaving time at its normal rate of progression.

If you can't believe anything on eriKa's Jude list, does that make it a pathological liar? Sort of like Al Gore?

"When the pathological liar lies, he's not really lying." --Hypnotic Clambake

Good morning, all.
Welcome Karen.
I'm trying to decide if I want it to be February 10th, like Kristina.. Hmm.
I kinda like the holidays... but... in theory, Jay'd be living in Lexington by then, and that'd be all cool, too. hehe.
Eh, it doesn't matter anyhow. None of us has mastered enough physics to be able to speed up time, have we?

Personally, I think the "Am I Hot" thing is... bad. Maybe that's just me.
It seems like a way to be judged by the least important of all one's attributes: Their outward appearance.
I know, I know. I sound preachy... I don't mean to. I had to talk Jay out of doing it yesterday (he might have done it, anyhow.)
The whole thing just seems insulting to me. :) Erika, what you look like says nothing about the cool person you are.... to have strangers judge you on a snapshot of a millisecond in time seems futile.
Besides, you can rarely get a good idea of how someone looks from a single photo anyhow. hehe. Maybe I just say that because all pictures of me SUCK. :)

So Bridgie.. what's this Voteswap2000 thing?

i'm here, too.

i made something work! :D

Ahhhhh! NO! the time is your freaky non-EST time!
Oh, well. I'll live. :)

i just invited everyone. i hope this like, works.

so guys, email me your blog identities and i'll add you, and we'll all be happy, and i'll be happy. and the blog will be happy. and right now bridgie is a tired swan, so i go now.

bwahahahahahahaha! IT LIVES!