Thank you for everybody who reads my blog and for everybody who comments. You are all pretty damn cool.
On why I don't subscribe:
Back when I was janedivided, I subscribed to a lot of the cool
people. That was good news. Then I got a bit obsessed and,
in my then infinite downtime at work, I would click from my own
comments to each of my subscribed to see if there were any
updates. While I can still be quite obsessed, I find that joining
blogrings helps me look at communities as wholes, to read different
people's blogs, etc. Also, I am forced to better remember the
names of people's blogs. (I must also admit that, when I forget
some of you, I go to jeri's blog and read through her comments to see
who posted them... that's how I met a lot of you in the first place.)
I'll end that rant for now and thank my sweet God that it's Friday and
that the week is over. Though only four days for me (and most in
this country, I suppose), this week was a long one, full of work and
ideas and energy and lots and lots of crap to do.
Today I had a 10:00 meeting with one of the counselors, the head of a
committee to recruit and hire a new counselor. Well, she didn't
promote me, but she did do what I hoped and mostly expected. She
told me that she's glad I applied and, basically, that I'm not ready...
but she wants to help me become ready for when the next position becomes available. She's talked to my
supervisor about slowly adding training and new counselor-like
opportunities, including sitting in on interviews, going to college
fairs, and even learning how to and then reading applications for 20
hours a week of overtime. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's
what I've been begging for from the beginning - "Give me More!"
"Can I help you with anything?" "Show me/teach me something so I
can make your job easier."
Life is good. Music is good. The weekend will be
good. Tux shopping, getting a posterboard for a class project,
and birthday present shopping tomorrow; birthday party and
finish-my-homework on Sunday. Oh, and maybe church (I'm awful;
it's true).
Listening to:
Placebo - Every You, Every Me
No Doubt - Simple Kind of Life
Kiss - I Want to Rock and Roll All Night
Comments (6)
Well, this was interesting. How do you know Jeri?
I wish I heard music when I came to your site because you have such great taste. Not that I know how to do that either.
:( If I had a nickel for every time I heard this...
Luckily, I got my step up this time.
Oh, and "infinite downtime" is usually a BAD sign...but you knew that already.
Good job on not subscribing.
I don't keep up with mine very well, subscribed or unsubscribed. Eh.
Dear Emily,
I do remember the name "janedivided". I was just thinking this morning about the many people whom I have met through Xanga the last year who just "disappear". Sometimes a blogger writes long comments on each of my posts, and they seem to always be at the computer, and then everything shuts down. They don't even send me an email. I just thought of four or five people this morning who seem to be "MIA". Since I'm always meeting new people, and there are always enough interested people leaving comments on my own blog, sometimes I don't even know I'm "missing" someone, and then I back track and see that they have disappeared. I even have one correspondent who disappears, then comes back, seems like she spends each and every minute in front of the puter, then disappears again for weeks on end.
Cyber life is weirder than real life. I finally figured out how to use a subscription list to my best advantage. I can easily see who updates and gauge my blog reading accordingly. I joined a lot of blogrings and then found I couldn't join anymore, so I shuffle those around. I even have my own, the ElectricPoetry ring, but I asked the first round of poets I asked to join to ask another poet to join, so I could get a large ring but nobody did this and then I went on to other pursuits. I used to run a poetry group on Yahoo, but dropped out recently because blogging takes up all my puter time as it is.
I am going through my list of "comments" right now trying to find people to whom I don't subscribe yet (I usually subscribe to a site if the owner/writer has left me a substantial amount of comments. I rarely look at the list of people who subscribe to my site, because there are so many who subscribe and never comment, and I don't like to leave long detailed "messages" to people who aren't going to "communicate".
Too bad you didn't get promoted , but here's wishing you do the next time around!
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool