8 posts tagged “meta”

I spent about an hour of work time today editing my livejournal profile and adding LJ's I like to read...and I don't even keep a blog there.  Go me.

I do, however, think that I'm going to start to try and get involved over there more, like community wise and stuff.  I just...need to change things up a little.  I'm still going to blog here.  Just try to get an Internet Posse like I used to have back in the days of my heavy Fametracker and TWoP use.

I don't know about y'all, but the month of May....sucked.  I can't quite put my finger on any one particular bad thing (well, a couple do come to mind..); it's just that I have felt like the life has been sucked out of me.   As the TL and I keep saying, "BLAH."

So, here's to a new month and hopefully a new attitude. 

I've decided that I'm going to try and keep a running tally here of the Facebook Status messages I would write if I didn't feel like they would make my co-workers uncomfortable or get me fired.  Here's today's:

tortuga needs to stop finding sexual imagery in advertisements.

Look for the FB status tag to be making more appearances soon! 

You know, I'm a feminist.  I don't get squeemish about girly-parts.  Sure, I will occasionally will refer to them as "hoo-has" or "va-jay-jays", but I have also seriously considered writing into a couple celebrity gossip blogs to correct their frequent confusion over the difference between "vaginas" and "vulvas."   I even follow Eve Ensler's advice to take back the word "cunt." 

That being said?  I could never carry a Vulva purse. (NSFW.  Duh.)   I don't want to know anyone that would, either.

In other adventures in online shopping, I bought myself this Natalie Dee t-shirt today. I deserve it.  

I actually, once again, had other things to write that sort of relate to the sentiment of that Natalie Dee shirt *cough* Silent Bob *cough*  and the other things that are going on in my life right now that I forgot to write about yesterday, but the vulva purse really has just wiped my brain clean of any coherent thought.

A. VULVA. PURSE. Y'ALL!

I will say that it is easier to write today than yesterday because I don't have to worry about this getting posted on Facebook without my permission.  That would have seriously sucked.  Like, sucked sucked.   Actually, probably if one more thing had gone wrong with Vox this week (shady deal with Facebook Beacon, I can't have anonymous commenters so if people want to comment they have to register with Vox, and people starting to get friend spam), I would have pulled up stakes and just started a blog on Wordpress.  But I guess I'll stick around at this URL for a while and keep trying this whole "communal blogging" thing.  At least it's not LJ.

Okay, I did just remember two little TV tidbits I wanted to mention.  For the past couple of weeks, much to my shame except not really, I've been watching Amerrica's Psychic Challenge on Lifetime.  It aired on Friday nights because the programmers clearly understood that the type of person that likes that show would not have a social life. Anyway, it was awesome.  If it re-runs, you should totally watch it.  Also on the TV tip, I'm going to try and watch Tin Man tonight.  It's a "Sci-Fi Original Miniseries" which, if it's anything like the "Sci-Fi Original Movies" means that the special effects budget is about $52 and the script was written by some dude that lives in his parents' basement.   Let's hope it crosses the line to "awesomely bad" and doesn't just stay on "bad."

But I will end by saying I got two very nice complements on this blog this week (well, I guess it was last week now).  Thank you! 

Work is sort of kicking my ass right now with the run-up to school starting and all that stuff. (Some of the other stuff being two all-day faculty retreats I have to go to...why they couldn't do it in June or July is a mystery to me.)  So my posting will probably be few and far between for the next two weeks or so.  FYI.

Today's horoscope:

If you are uncertain about how someone feels, ask them for clarification. Even if this makes you a bit uncomfortable, it will be better in the long run if you know where you stand. But it won't work if the other person feels pressure from you, so approach the subject as gingerly as possible and without any attempt to coerce the answer that you might want to hear.

On a somewhat related note, did y'all notice that I have a counter map now?  That's about as close to a hit meter as one can get with Vox thus far.  I couldn't help but notice that there's a dot where Silent Bob lives.  So Silent Bob, if you're reading this, I think you should tell me.  Like, um, I did when I google stalked you and found your blog. *sigh*  Ain't life in the new millenium grand?

But anyway, comments and site counters are two things that I always swore I'd never have on my blog and lookee here, I gots them and everything's been cool thus far.  Huh.

Okay, first it was yesterday this morning with the Robot Chicken version of Star Wars.  And now?  A Hello Kitty Darth Vadar.  How awesome is that? 

From now on when I find something that combines two things I love, even if it's a completely idiosyncratic combination, I'm posting it here and giving it the tag "peanut butter cups".

Oooooo....what a provacative post title!  Aren't I a saucy minx? 

Well, no.  No I am not.  I sincerely hate blogging.  Yet, I somehow cannot stop.

It has made me friends, it has (possibly, recently) lost me friends, it has sometimes been my only friend.  Me and my blog...taking on the world, listing my woes and travails.

I've been blogging off and on for about 4 years now.  I most recently stopped about six months ago...I just needed to take a break from the self-analysis and navel gazing.  But due to recent events, I'm starting to think that I need to do a little more self-analysis and navel gazing.  I've been drifting along for a while now and, as I was re-reading ye olde blog last weekend, I realized that I getting myself back into some well worn ruts. 

Also, on a purely practical and selfish point, I need the writing practice.  I have to write a lot for my job and I find that if I don't stretch the writing muscles here, when I need them at work they don't come easily.  My main thought while reading ye olde blog - besides the "holy cow tortuga, look what you're heading for again if you're not careful" - was sheer amazement at the volume I was able to produce.  It wasn't all brilliant (although there were a few entries that made me think "good show, tortuga"), but it sure beats the hell out of staring at a blank sheet of paper, which is what I had spent the previous week doing.  

So, here we go again.  Let's see how long it lasts this time.