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[valis2]

Drove all night...got home at 2am this morning so that I could be at my sister's house at 10:30 this morning to help her out.

Am quite tired.

Flist is way over the top. Had to skip back to 450 entries to get caught up...am now at 240 to go. Wow. (I'm starting to see why people go through mass de-friendings.) That's after unfriending twenty-one communities. I think I need to unfriend little_details as well. It was described as a place where you could post a writing question about anything and the community would try to answer. At first I thought it would be really interesting...especially given LJ's international audience...but it's been flooded with questions like do horses eat olives and I have a crystalline entity that is asexual, but is insulted by being called it, what sort of pronoun should I use. (I'm much more interested in questions that could be easily answered by LJ writers, such as which classes of British men most commonly still wear nightshirts and how angry do Australian men get when one of their mates gets away without purchasing a 'shout' during a hard evening's drinking. And let's not even get started on who really makes the donuts.)

Look, I don't need to know about martini-drinking equines. And may I just mention that if you have an asexual crystalline entity in your fic then I would imagine that its first language---if a spoken, word-based language was actually involved at all---would not be English. And I can't imagine that it would particularly care what pronoun you used to refer to it. Honestly. I really don't think it would feel constrained by our general feelings of gender, seeing as it has none. And it's your fic, so if this is such a problem, make up a word...it isn't that difficult. Refer to them as "zumwerger" or "kl''m". Problem solved. Hee! I'm such a nasty little wench sometimes.

I won't even get started on the so-broad-they're-unanswerable questions like what was Paris like in the twenties. That's what research is for. Rawr!

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[virtual-gravy.livejournal.com]

So why do you hate that community?

Sorry I couldn’t resist.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, I don't hate the community...it just isn't exactly what I thought it would be...I just need to not monitor it, and then I won't have to read questions that should have been answered by the author. ;)

I did sound a little strident, didn't I?

Love, love, love your photos, they are wonderful. I just came back from Australia and it is so nice to see such beautiful reminders of the trip. It's so interesting and awesome to see a professional photographer's set of pics.

[virtual-gravy.livejournal.com]

I knew what you were getting at. If I don’t look at me friends list every day then sometimes I miss all of their posts because someone in a community got really busy posting stuff I don’t care to read.
Then again, maybe my posts are doing that to someone else.
So, who knows?

Thanks about the photos. Australia is the coolest. I first sailed into its harbor in 1998 and have been hooked ever since. There is magic here I tell you.

[snapesforte.livejournal.com]

~smirks~ You feel better now, don't you?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it really wasn't even supposed to be a rant...I certainly should have scaled back Teh Sarcasm. Heh.

[mortifyd.livejournal.com]

Glad you're back! <3

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks!

[gypsyjolie.livejournal.com]

And let's not even get started on who really makes the donuts.

LOL! I missed you!

I won't even get started on the so-broad-they're-unanswerable questions like what was Paris like in the twenties. That's what research is for. Rawr!

I still think that my dream job would be to be a professional research minion. I heard an NPR interview with this guy that is just that. he's done research for Grisham, Koontz, and a ton of other authors. On just about everything. he writes it up, has discussions with the writers, and then gets a new assignment. Awesome. Anywho... /pointless rambling.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I do research at my day job...on the internet. It is one of the most fun jobs I've ever had. I cruise all over state websites and find statutes pertaining to the medical field...it sounds boring, but it's not. Every state has a differently organized website, so it is actually kind of a challenge, and always new.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

As an Australian, if that was a serious question, then skipping a shout (doing a Copperfield) is a pretty serious social crime!

If he skips, he'll be talked about, when he turns up again he'll be razzed. "Ah, yeh cheap bastard!"
Repeatedly. The only way to forgiveness would be to buy first round, or maybe even two rounds next time.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

"Doing a Copperfield"? That's great. Slang can be such a fun use of language...my friends and I are now obsessed with the phrase "stiff bickies" and use it constantly now that we've been to Australia.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Doing a Copperfield, you probably already guessed, means to disappear when it's time to pay/shout.

I've never heard Stiff Bickies, but it sure sounds like something an Australian would say.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

According to the "slang guide" in one of the hotels "stiff bickies!" is the equivalent to the phrase "Tough!"

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

I figured, coz it's just like the Stiff Cheese I know and used to use 20 years ago. I should go back to using it...

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and the person who leaves without paying is called Copperfield.

[absurdwords.livejournal.com]

The questions asked on little_details are sometimes hilarious, but I also don't always appreciate the flist spam when I want to catch up with the things that really matter.

And I seriously hope some of those authors are doing research besides posting their questions there.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I have now un-friended it, and added it to the bookmarks...I guess I just didn't expect it to be so popular. I'd rather read about what my flist is up to...as you say, the things that matter.

I agree about hoping the authors would do research first, but it's obvious from some of the questions that they're not. I think it'll be a good resource in some ways, and I'm glad they're being so careful about classifying everything in the memories.