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^^^ tragically, this may be true.

I had a feeling I was gonna be reprimamded. it's MY fault for not checking in five times a day - so...I'll remedy that.

And I'll bookmark it.
I apologize.

No reprimands here. Just :D

And Abbott there's LOADS of good stuff up there. You should check it out.

So, anyway. I was at a birthday party for my friends daughter (she's TWO!) with Skot S.'s best friend, who is immortalized on his '80's thread, and I met TWO ilx lurkers!
The number two is actually not significant. But it was weird - two people who "read ilx all the time" at work, but don't post because they're "afraid they would lose half of their productivity" if they did so.
I didn't reveal my identity. (For MANY good reasons; I just met them! Let's start off on the right foot, etc. :))
I mean, they talked about different threads, and were explaining ilx to the uninitiated in the group - meanwhile I'm like, dying to burst in and really explain it all, but...it's fun to hear someone explain ilx to people who have no idea (and potentially no interest) in it - except for the fact that there's a bunch of pictures of Maggie, from the '80's, posted on a thread.

This was a first for me.

I explained ILX to my son with something that I'm pretty sure someone at ILX wrote: It's a website about nothing! (I believe that person was riffing on Seinfeld being a "show about nothing.")

I have never run across lurkers, though. How crazy!

I have had lurkers introduce themselves to me at gatherings, at concerts and online. Then again I am me, so.

I thought so! I was like "Do you post?" - sort of trembling to have some strange screen name revealed, in the flesh! Nope - just lurkers. BUT - they lurk a lot, I think! Definitely know the ins and outs of the various boards.
Not ITR, however. I was able to be silently smug on that one. (They know ILM, ILE and Noize). Also - I don't think they know Skot IRL.

It was just very out of context. And I felt like I was having sort of an intense response: "Ilx? What? When? Screen name?" - because I know Maria, Beth and Scott, but otherwise you're all very dear strangers to me, really! I have been around here for enough years to feel pretty strongly about my online friendships. But I haven't actually met anyone from the boards, yet.
I should be going to Seattle in the next six months, so I'll hope for a FAP there - I would LOVE to meet Jaq and hang out with her in my old stomping grounds.
Oh, and we're all coming over to your house, Sara - when exactly?

And Abbott there's LOADS of good stuff up there. You should check it out.

Oh yeah, I've read most of it. I concur. But like if I haven't read in a day and there's some things from last night stuck in there, I'm not gonna look. Unliess it is HI DERE SPIDERMANGS.

I miss Beth. :(

Sorry ned, that was an xpost.
But, yeah, I am not surprised that lurkers (and semi-lurkers)would see you and recognize you. After all, that purple tie is a dead giveaway. (Kidding!)

But you are very much a public figure on ilx and ilm. I was looking at a picture that you posted, wondering if I would recognize you if I saw you in some random way. I'm not sure I would. And yet...maybe I would, in the right context - the right random context.

That would be a good band name. The right random context.

Shit, another xpost.

I miss Beth here too. Maybe we should get her to come to ITR.

Abbott, your perfect party thread has gone nuts, settled down, gone nuts...I'm so befuddled by certain folks insistence on "the Rules!". We have to go back to posting about the RULES, guys!

The RULES for a perfect partY!!!!!! You're not playing fair!!!!!

What rules?

xp I don't know when you're all coming to my house. I hope I'm not buried under 20 piles of books and a bunch of classes when it happens, though. I hate it when I miss the fun parts of my life!

I'd better check out that perfect party thread, too, huh.

We are going to wisely wait until you graduate so as you can fix up all the busted toes and bloodied noses.

Yours included.

Good point. I'd better stock up on gauze and medical tape in the interim.

Also ice packs, because they double for swelling and for booze.

Plus, if no-one gets hurt we can all pretend we're MUMMIES!

so that wanted movie. huh. not going to rave about it, although there are some points where its great, but most points of it were...not.

wine was great though! discovering that i prefer a good claret to just about anything else.

it is my favorite non-fortified kind of wine.

Drunk.

oh hai

Morning.

I am grumpy and wanting a nap. But I'm making notes to have ice packs and apparently claret on hand someday.

grumpy yes! nap yes! work no! :( :(

After I drop J at camp I'm going to get 4lex involved in watching tv or reading a book or playing a video game or SOMETHING and then I'm going to get that nap.

How many more days at that job, tehresa?

2!

Yay two days! I'm thinking of going to see a movie by myself today. Anything mainstream that's worthwhile?

Only two days? Not too bad!

Ms. M, the only movie I've seen in a theater this summer was Wall-E. It was cute. I hope you find something good.

Okay, naptime for me...

I'd like to see "Brideshead Revisited" but I don't feel like driving across town to an "art" theater. I might have a bootleg copy of Wall-E from my brother, not sure.

boss is not here again... wtf. i wish i was home in bed.

i am jealous of your movie time, m!
i have only seen BATMANG this summer.

That might have been all I've seen this summer too. I think I'm not going now though as I've just gotten a last-minute doctor's appt. Seeing movies by yourself in the daytime seems so decadent.

WALL-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Seeing movies by yourself in the daytime is probably cheap, though!

I gave up on my nap. Every person in the free world has decided that it Thursday morning is a good time to call us. NO, I don't want to change the times for the kids dental appointments... grrrr.

i finally dropped my app into barnes and noble last night, no bookseller positions available but the goddamn cafe is looking for staff :(

guess a bookstore cafe is better than a dumb restaurant or a starbucks.

i thought barnes and noble cafes were starbucks?

hmmm i don't think so but i could be wrong. it didn't look like a starbucks?

and i guess cafe work has got to be significantly easier than restaurant work.

I hear Starbucks is a fairly decent place to work. They have benefits.

I really want to change my username. I'm really not pure misery anymore.

except for the ones where the employees sued for managers stealing their tips.

I think I would like to work in a coffee shop, actually. Because COFFEE.

I'm glad you're not pure misery anymore, Ms. M!

both of my sisters worked in a coffee shop together. they seemed to enjoy it.

Do most of you tip at Starbucks? I'm always torn on this one.

I haven't been to a Starbucks in too long to know the answer to this question. I think I failed to tip last time I was at a coffee shop. But I think it's partially a function of almost never using cash. Certainly if there's a cup and I use cash I am happy to throw my change or a dollar in sometimes...

Yeah, I have no idea what the answer to that is.

having no cash is often my problem too. Tipping sucks (being unsure when/how much).

you think you've got problems tipping - I HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE

so far, i have just let jordan take care of all these matters, but i guess i should learn.

General rule is 15-20% depending on how much you liked the service. I like 20% because that boils down to "$1 per $5". I also tip $1 per drink when I'm out at a bar.

No, the general rule is do not tip and only go to each place once.

oh btw 9 yrs of marriage today ^_^

Seriously, is what I am not being. Listen to Dan.

AND WOW CONGRATUMALATIONS.