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Dec. 21st, 2009 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamwitchThe NYTimes has this headline about HS students today: "To Deal With Obsession, Some Defriend Facebook," and apparently, people
spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people’s electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world.
and I'm just like... "...."
>_____>;;
Sometimes I wonder if I'm just old. But no, I'm just antisocial. Introverted. SOMETHING. Something that makes me just deeply not care about people's 'drift'. I mean, really, I don't care what your daily 'drift' is, even if I omg-love you. Am I just... a hopelessly asocial individual? I don't even know. I was so proud of myself for engaging in small-talk with what (for me) is ease today at work. I was totally patting myself on the back, but. Constant small-talk? DAY IN AND DAY OUT??! I WOULD. RATHER. DIE. You think I'm kidding? I'm sooooo not kidding. :/ And this is why I've yet to get a twitter, as well. It's like, the quintessence of small-talk. It's even defined 'small' for us as 140 characters. I mean. I don't even know what I have to say to anyone that's under 140 characters, ok, except 'shut up' and 'go away', and sometimes 'please' and 'thank you'.
So yeah, hi, I wanna be a HS teacher. >_____>; As in, dealing with groups of these people and holding their (scattered) attention daily. When my own attention is scattered (but not by facebook) and basically I like it when people don't pay attention to me. I swear, there are people who don't believe me (well, so far only a really hung-up nerd who thought even fellow nerds were really one of 'them'; WHY did I even consider dating him, seriously). He was totally like, 'psssht, you'll go to college and get a boyfriend in no time' and 'psssht, you totally do like the attention, I know you do'. And I'm like, NO, EXCUSE ME, I DO NOT, and I WILL NOT, and YES, PIGS WILL FLY BEFORE I SPONTANEOUSLY GET A BOYFRIEND [in a normal social setting], ok. Although... really, why am I still arguing with him in my head; he just believed what he wanted to believe, it's that simple; it had nothing to do with me.
Anyway, woo-hoo, quarter is over! And guess what, they didn't throw me out of school. >___>; I was here on academic probation & needed to get all my credits, which I thought was a close call 'cause I just baaaaaarely squeaked by with getting my assignments on time (several times giving my professor 'drafts', with on time being 'on the same day'), and also I just didn't finish one assignment at all. And maybe no one could tell, but I didn't really do a complete job on one of the major papers (toootally half-assed it 'cause basically I didn't finish the research), and I only read one book entirely (mostly read like a quarter, but that's what happens when I procrastinate *and* am a slow reader).
Still, this professor's a softie, it's basically English lit, and umm I'm good at bullshitting, so hoorray! :D Or something. We talked for like an extra half-hour/40 minutes at the end of quarter conference, too, so I have high hopes for next quarter, where I'll be doing more of those 'cause there'll be an independent project (read: I'll be writing a novella! about ancient Greek myth/Ariadne & Dionysus! yeay!). Anyway, I'm feeling like maaaaaaybe I'll actually graduate this time. Perhaps. *cough*
spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people’s electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world.
and I'm just like... "...."
>_____>;;
Sometimes I wonder if I'm just old. But no, I'm just antisocial. Introverted. SOMETHING. Something that makes me just deeply not care about people's 'drift'. I mean, really, I don't care what your daily 'drift' is, even if I omg-love you. Am I just... a hopelessly asocial individual? I don't even know. I was so proud of myself for engaging in small-talk with what (for me) is ease today at work. I was totally patting myself on the back, but. Constant small-talk? DAY IN AND DAY OUT??! I WOULD. RATHER. DIE. You think I'm kidding? I'm sooooo not kidding. :/ And this is why I've yet to get a twitter, as well. It's like, the quintessence of small-talk. It's even defined 'small' for us as 140 characters. I mean. I don't even know what I have to say to anyone that's under 140 characters, ok, except 'shut up' and 'go away', and sometimes 'please' and 'thank you'.
So yeah, hi, I wanna be a HS teacher. >_____>; As in, dealing with groups of these people and holding their (scattered) attention daily. When my own attention is scattered (but not by facebook) and basically I like it when people don't pay attention to me. I swear, there are people who don't believe me (well, so far only a really hung-up nerd who thought even fellow nerds were really one of 'them'; WHY did I even consider dating him, seriously). He was totally like, 'psssht, you'll go to college and get a boyfriend in no time' and 'psssht, you totally do like the attention, I know you do'. And I'm like, NO, EXCUSE ME, I DO NOT, and I WILL NOT, and YES, PIGS WILL FLY BEFORE I SPONTANEOUSLY GET A BOYFRIEND [in a normal social setting], ok. Although... really, why am I still arguing with him in my head; he just believed what he wanted to believe, it's that simple; it had nothing to do with me.
Anyway, woo-hoo, quarter is over! And guess what, they didn't throw me out of school. >___>; I was here on academic probation & needed to get all my credits, which I thought was a close call 'cause I just baaaaaarely squeaked by with getting my assignments on time (several times giving my professor 'drafts', with on time being 'on the same day'), and also I just didn't finish one assignment at all. And maybe no one could tell, but I didn't really do a complete job on one of the major papers (toootally half-assed it 'cause basically I didn't finish the research), and I only read one book entirely (mostly read like a quarter, but that's what happens when I procrastinate *and* am a slow reader).
Still, this professor's a softie, it's basically English lit, and umm I'm good at bullshitting, so hoorray! :D Or something. We talked for like an extra half-hour/40 minutes at the end of quarter conference, too, so I have high hopes for next quarter, where I'll be doing more of those 'cause there'll be an independent project (read: I'll be writing a novella! about ancient Greek myth/Ariadne & Dionysus! yeay!). Anyway, I'm feeling like maaaaaaybe I'll actually graduate this time. Perhaps. *cough*
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:23 pm (UTC)GET A TWITTER DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES :D
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:28 pm (UTC)*raises Vulcan eyebrow at you*
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:31 pm (UTC)*notes that your comment is under 140 characters*
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 10:37 pm (UTC)*notes that you have lost me, but if we were ON TWITTER our friends could be following along with our discussion in REAL TIME rather than having to dig it out of post comments :D*
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:40 pm (UTC)*also notes that I meant this is messaging-- ie, a threaded one-on-one conversation that's also accessible to others-- while twitter is publically accessible and non-threaded, therefore registering as 'updating' rather than 'messaging' to me*
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:43 pm (UTC)it's really a hybrid of the two. If you were replying to me, only the people who followed both of us - really probably just Kara and Val being the only 2 friends we both have who use Twitter afaik - could see the replies. So it'd be like a real-time message thread that everyone watching can see appearing on their twitter feed.
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 11:02 pm (UTC)what, no! IT IS USEFUL FOR TALKING ABOUT THINGS AS A GROUP :( AND NOT JUST BUSINESS TYPE THINGS! I COULD SAY *OPINIONATED STATEMENT!* AND THEN YOU COULD RESPOND! AND THEN KARA WOULD GO :)) AT BOTH OF US!
and it would not take me 6 months to join the discussion bc i am 1800 posts behind on LJ as i am now! :( I AM JUST SAYING!
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Date: 2009-12-21 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 11:03 pm (UTC)VAL POSTS ENDEARING AND ENTERTAINING SHORT UPDATES ABOUT NEWTON ON TWITTER.
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Date: 2009-12-21 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 11:09 pm (UTC)hahaha, I AM PLEASED TO HAVE BEEN THE RECIPIENT.
p.s. i think the following quote sums up the current state of harry/draco fiction quite nicely:
Merlin, Potter was even better-endowed as a human than as a house-elf. I slipped a hand down between us for confirmation.
“Do you?” He ground his hips against me in slow circles.
“Er, no,” I gasped. Wow. So that was why my arse was so sore.
“It's almost too bad,” he said with a sigh. “You were an awfully cute house elf, Drakey.”
SO, YEAH.
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Date: 2009-12-21 11:12 pm (UTC)Thank you Aja, that was beautiful. ♥