I've been ranting a lot lately.

[conuly]

I'm going to try to pretend this isn't normal.

So. Um. Hey, I'm bored (as always), anybody want to introduce themselves to everybody else? Anybody who reads me but hasn't friended me want to explain why (I like to know how many people read this thing so I can brag to people who are far less obsessively geeky than I)?

Hm. Question. Why can you say "as always", but not "as often" or "as rarely"? I mean, you can express those concepts, but not with a handy idiom, you have to say "as I often am" or "as I rarely have been before" or something. Please do NOT post with quotes like "as often as I refill this, it still empties quickly" or something, that's not the same thing as saying "I am bored, as often".

Comments

Introducing myself

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

Introduce myself? Okay. I'm rainbow_goddess. I'm 36 years old. I am a geek. I have Asperger's Sydrome. I love cats. I'm bisexual. I have a boyfriend called "Monster." I am a fan of Farscape, Buffy, Lord of the Rings, Stargate and Due South, among other things. I love to read science fiction and fantasy. I have diabetes and do bizarre things when my blood sugar gets too low. Last time it happened, I tried to eat my clock radio.

A bad first impression

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I want to introduce myself, but I'm about to go to bed.
Right now.
I'll do it tomorrow.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Did you see this? http://www.mattblakk.com/dog.html

[conuly]

I certainly knew about service dogs for autistics. But no, haven't seen that article.

[electricshadow4.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm me, and I don't know what else I should say.

With regards to the "as always" v. "as rarely", I suppose that "as always" is a contraction of "as I always am/do". "As rarely" would be "as I rarely am/do", which wouldn't be said; you'd say something implying it is abnormal "which I am/do only rarely". Ditto for "as often", though "as I often do" does make sense ...

Introducing myself

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

Introduce myself? Okay. I'm rainbow_goddess. I'm 36 years old. I am a geek. I have Asperger's Sydrome. I love cats. I'm bisexual. I have a boyfriend called "Monster." I am a fan of Farscape, Buffy, Lord of the Rings, Stargate and Due South, among other things. I love to read science fiction and fantasy. I have diabetes and do bizarre things when my blood sugar gets too low. Last time it happened, I tried to eat my clock radio.

A bad first impression

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I want to introduce myself, but I'm about to go to bed.
Right now.
I'll do it tomorrow.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Did you see this? http://www.mattblakk.com/dog.html

[conuly]

I certainly knew about service dogs for autistics. But no, haven't seen that article.

[electricshadow4.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm me, and I don't know what else I should say.

With regards to the "as always" v. "as rarely", I suppose that "as always" is a contraction of "as I always am/do". "As rarely" would be "as I rarely am/do", which wouldn't be said; you'd say something implying it is abnormal "which I am/do only rarely". Ditto for "as often", though "as I often do" does make sense ...