more uncertainty: the crisis continues

[jess]

I avoid most of the applications on Facebook (though I'll install some temporarily to see what the fuss is), but there are a few I really like. Like Scrabulous, and the iLike application which lets me know which of my friends are going to the shows I'm attending. Catbook is just ridiculous, that I'll admit, but whatever, it's kittens, so it's cute. I also really like the one (SGO) that my genderqueer friends have that puts a section in their profile that shows all of the aspects of gender, sexual orientation, etc. that ideally these sites would have the option of displaying anyway.

My biggest problems with Myspace are that it's owned by Fox and the layout stuff. I hate that it allows people to have music and sound play immediately on loading their page, which I consider pretty much the worst web-sin ever. It's vaguely excusable for band pages, which yes there are plenty of those on Myspace, but otherwise? No no no bad. The graphic design on many of them is almost as big of a sin though. I'd take somewhat boring but not egregious over that any day.

[morgan]

Oh yeah, I hate the music thing too, but my flash is automatically turned off on Firefox, so I never have to worry about it.

Some people do have some SERIOUSLY awful layouts, though.  I can get behind you on that one.

[hannah]

I am finding tomorrow immensely stressful and am uncertain about every minute of it. I also feel lousy posting this on LPTJ when I've been neglecting the forums mostly and not letting my sympathy for everyone else ring like a goddamn clarion.

[jebreject]

hannah send me an email if you want

[nonotyet]

I made plans tonight to go out dancing for New Year's Eve (by myself, fuck everyone and the horses they rode in on)  but I just got an emailed party invitation from a friend who a) is practically computer illiterate so why is she sending me an email about it and b) I haven't seen her in three months because she keeps having Huge Dramatic Fights with her boyfriend and canceling plans with me at the last second because of said fights and I got tired of it and stopped calling her and it was a completely one-sided friendship, and now I am unsure whether I want to i) go out dancing because I already made this decision and I really like dancing ii)go out dancing out of spite and scorn and the resignation to the fact that sooner or later she is going to start canceling abruptly and last secondly and randomly and moreover give her the huge fuck-you speech that I've  been planning for months or iii) accept the fact that she is trying and making the gesture and probably spending time with friends, even if those friends have been awful to me recently, would be better than being in the middle of drunk strangers, all When Harry Met Sally style.

I have no idea what to do.

[Andrew_TSKS]

do you REALLY think that being amongst friends who've been shitty lately will be better than dancing in a crowded club full of strangers? because if so, do that. but like, i'm not at all sure i would really think so, especially if i was kind of excited to pursue my plan to do something new and unusual.

[nonotyet]

I think that I am mostly very curious about what her story is, for one, and I also think that practically speaking if I was going to go to this party it would be better because the place I am thinking about going to has a ten dollar cover charge. Also it is not exactly new and exciting because I went there last year, although I was not alone.
BUT: since when have I been practical.
BUT ALSO: Even though I feel like I've been gradually letting this friendship go we've been friends for almost a decade and part of me just wants to hang on at all costs even though I am still weirded out by and suspicious of the medium in which she chose to invite me.
I am so lame.   

[Andrew_TSKS]

nah, not really, it's an understandable dilemma, and it's made worse by the $10 cover. that's enough to make me balk at a lot of things.

[das kranke Tier]

I am uncertain...WHY THEY HAVE NOT TOLD US THAT WE CAN GO HOME FOR THE DAY YET!!

[milesofsparks]

I am uncertain...WHY THEY HAVE NOT TOLD US THAT WE CAN GO HOME FOR THE DAY YET!!

there's no one else here but me.  Imma finish this thing up and head home.  I am uncertain, however, whether I should come in on Wednesday.  the office calendar says we're closed...  maybe I'll work from home.  I am uncertain.

[Andrew_TSKS]

yeah, i'm not really selling much stuff either, and i haven't gotten any deliveries today, so it is starting to seem like a pointless endeavor to continue to be here. nonetheless, we don't close til 3, so here i still am.

some local organizations are throwing a mini-times square ball drop in the neighborhood where my store is, too, and they've already closed the parking lot outside my store. they close the entire street at 4 pm. right now, in the parking lot, they're jackhammering. JACKHAMMERING. what the hell kind of temporary structure that will exist for one night requires jackhammering?

[das kranke Tier]

ALRIGHT!!

I'm outta here!  You guys have a safe and happy new year's!!

[elpollodiablo]

You too dogg!

[SPACERACE]

i just remembered that last night, one of the very first things i was badgered into doing, in fact when i was nursing my first beer, was that stupid challenge from beerfest, the strikeout or whatever, where you take a hearty bong rip, then chug a whole beer and take a shot, then exhale smoke. it was much easier than i expected.

i post this here because i don't know what this says about me

[auto-da-fey]

I have an interview on the east coast tomorrow morning, for a job I'm not really convinced that I want. On the grounds of that whole "better to regret something you have done than something you haven't" theory, I'm going for it, but because I have zero desire to even make the trip, much less spend any time out there (or get a hotel), I'm flying in on a red-eye, attending my interview, then flying back tomorrow evening. For various reasons, this strikes me as a monumentally flawed plan, but probably no worse than many plans I make.

[Greg Nog]

A friend of mine is also travelling on the East Coast for a job interview tomorrow.  And I may be getting a new job at the place where I work.  All of this is fraught with uncertainty.

[girl]

Despite the fact that you've decided to spend your entire time on airplanes instead of planning a small get-together with the east coast lptj contingent, I hope you have a good interview. Also, good luck to Greg and Greg's friend!

[jess]

Despite the fact that you've decided to spend your entire time on airplanes instead of planning a small get-together with the east coast lptj contingent, I hope you have a good interview. Also, good luck to Greg and Greg's friend!

[auto-da-fey]

Haha, no slight intended. I'll actually be far south of you two (and not all that coastal exactly: Washington, D.C.), in Dave/Beth/Andrew turf. And while I'd be quite pleased to meet up with anybody during my few brief hours there, I just didn't put much effort into planning such an endeavor, since I'll be hella exhuasted and probably dull and sluggish company. Plus when I did this last year in Atlanta and met Myke, I missed my plane (which was entirely my own damn fool fault, but it still sucked--a suckage mitigated by Melissa cooking me dinner, admittedly). I think it's just a matter of poor timing--after three canceled flights back here from Minnesota and some annoying delayage in Minneapolis, I'm just not too keen on more airports and flying, which sours my perspective on the whole trip.

[DCDave]

Haha, no slight intended. I'll actually be far south of you two (and not all that coastal exactly: Washington, D.C.), in Dave/Beth/Andrew turf. And while I'd be quite pleased to meet up with anybody during my few brief hours there, I just didn't put much effort into planning such an endeavor, since I'll be hella exhuasted and probably dull and sluggish company. Plus when I did this last year in Atlanta and met Myke, I missed my plane (which was entirely my own damn fool fault, but it still sucked--a suckage mitigated by Melissa cooking me dinner, admittedly). I think it's just a matter of poor timing--after three canceled flights back here from Minnesota and some annoying delayage in Minneapolis, I'm just not too keen on more airports and flying, which sours my perspective on the whole trip.

If you want to grab lunch I'd be up for it.

[auto-da-fey]

Sure, I'm in. Just don't expect too much sparkling, witty banter on my part. Bloodshot eyes, probably. I'm getting a sense of the geography right now, I'll drop you a PM later today.

[das kranke Tier]

So...I think I'm kind of on the verge of resigning from my job?

 

[DCDave]

I got slammed with work and won't be able to meet out with whit for lunch today.

Boo.

[jebreject]

So...I think I'm kind of on the verge of resigning from my job?

 

What's going on, bro?

[C of heartbreak]

Damn I didn't know Whit was coming. I usually sleep during the day but I've been kept up all morning by construction outside my window. But so you know Whit I am also near DC.