So much for hanging about the NaNoWriMo forums.
tsk. All of a sudden the NaNo boards are swarming with obnoxious children. And I think I know why.
The OLL staff have this blog ... and someone posted a blog entry in praise of Hufflepuffs ... you know, from Harry Potter. It got linked on this huge-ass Harry Potter site (I hesitate to call it a fan site since it's all Official and Endorsed by All and Sundry, incl. Jo Rowling) which is currently in beta, but is crawling with children who got to be beta testers by solving some sort of puzzle thing.
Guess what happens when you put a link from there to here?
Yup. So now there's so many dumbass posts on the NaNo boards, I can't even stand to read them any more. You know, I've got nothing against children, but I sorta like my Internet conversations to be at least marginally thoughtful. Those forums were already getting clogged with endless "Decide my plot for me" and "o noez my characters wont do what i say" threads, and it was getting lame. This just tipped the straw bale over.
sigh. Another web hangout bites the dust. Yes, perhaps I am being a snob, but what can I say. I have as much right as anyone to choose the company I keep, and I don't want to hang out with a bunch of preteens.
Also, I am extremely -- like, really really -- tired, on account of the dog being sick again, and not only keeping me up most of the night, but also having to go the vet and be babysat and his waste cleaned up -- repeatedly -- by yours truly. And school starts tomorrow. And Rosh Hashanah starts tomorrow night. And did I mention, frigging SCHOOL? The first time I've been on the UW campus in ... well, about six weeks, actually, but summer really doesn't count. This quarter is the real deal, and it's gonna be a rough ride, with a full course load and all of it high-level work. If I fail any of these courses, I don't graduate.*
The place is gonna be crawling with freshmen and jolly beaming moronic activities which are nauseatingly politically correct and which do not interest me whatsoever, except as I trip over the flyers littered everywhere. Possibly I will go to a few of these events and come away disappointed in my fellow man (fellow ... something) once again. Like that Hillel Rosh Hashanah dinner. I feel under pressure to go to it in hopes of meeting a) some Nice Jewish Boy, or b) some people to hang out with who remotely interest me as possible friends. Not impossible, but given my past record with Jewish social events, I'd say it's not bloody likely.
* Okay, so I could in fact graduate next spring, but I've been going around telling everyone I'm graduating in December, and I sort of feel a guilt trip in the matter of my grandparents as regards that deadline. Besides, remember how I'm sick of hanging around with a lot of kids just out of high school? The faster I graduate, the sooner I can move out and ditch this whole "living in my parents' basement" thing.
It's already a long week, and it's not even half over yet.
I suppose maybe things will look better after a night's sleep. Assuming the dog lets me sleep.
The OLL staff have this blog ... and someone posted a blog entry in praise of Hufflepuffs ... you know, from Harry Potter. It got linked on this huge-ass Harry Potter site (I hesitate to call it a fan site since it's all Official and Endorsed by All and Sundry, incl. Jo Rowling) which is currently in beta, but is crawling with children who got to be beta testers by solving some sort of puzzle thing.
Guess what happens when you put a link from there to here?
Yup. So now there's so many dumbass posts on the NaNo boards, I can't even stand to read them any more. You know, I've got nothing against children, but I sorta like my Internet conversations to be at least marginally thoughtful. Those forums were already getting clogged with endless "Decide my plot for me" and "o noez my characters wont do what i say" threads, and it was getting lame. This just tipped the straw bale over.
sigh. Another web hangout bites the dust. Yes, perhaps I am being a snob, but what can I say. I have as much right as anyone to choose the company I keep, and I don't want to hang out with a bunch of preteens.
Also, I am extremely -- like, really really -- tired, on account of the dog being sick again, and not only keeping me up most of the night, but also having to go the vet and be babysat and his waste cleaned up -- repeatedly -- by yours truly. And school starts tomorrow. And Rosh Hashanah starts tomorrow night. And did I mention, frigging SCHOOL? The first time I've been on the UW campus in ... well, about six weeks, actually, but summer really doesn't count. This quarter is the real deal, and it's gonna be a rough ride, with a full course load and all of it high-level work. If I fail any of these courses, I don't graduate.*
The place is gonna be crawling with freshmen and jolly beaming moronic activities which are nauseatingly politically correct and which do not interest me whatsoever, except as I trip over the flyers littered everywhere. Possibly I will go to a few of these events and come away disappointed in my fellow man (fellow ... something) once again. Like that Hillel Rosh Hashanah dinner. I feel under pressure to go to it in hopes of meeting a) some Nice Jewish Boy, or b) some people to hang out with who remotely interest me as possible friends. Not impossible, but given my past record with Jewish social events, I'd say it's not bloody likely.
* Okay, so I could in fact graduate next spring, but I've been going around telling everyone I'm graduating in December, and I sort of feel a guilt trip in the matter of my grandparents as regards that deadline. Besides, remember how I'm sick of hanging around with a lot of kids just out of high school? The faster I graduate, the sooner I can move out and ditch this whole "living in my parents' basement" thing.
It's already a long week, and it's not even half over yet.
I suppose maybe things will look better after a night's sleep. Assuming the dog lets me sleep.