Few things all randomly thrown together.

[conuly]

1. I'm seeing a lot of comments from people I don't know. Hi-hi! Who are you? Come introduce yourselves! Tell me how you found me!

1a. The rest of youse can do that too.

1b. You can lie about yourself if your real life isn't interesting enough. I won't mind.

2. I'm going to rewrite my userinfo soon. I think I'll model the form after book_icons, and stick it all in an entry somewhere. Much cleaner. Anybody have any questions they'd like answered?

3. How can something be the "very first"? Isn't that like being "very unique"?

4. We've been having blackouts. I don't get it. It's not even that hot yet!

5. Believe it or not, I'm actually going offline today for a substantial period of time. Going to the bookstore. The air-conditioned bookstore. Should be fun!

6. Okay. Since response was generally positive, who's up for a game of Calvinball this weekend? A real game, in Central Park (or another park, whatever)?

7. I need to buy some shorts.

Comments

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

If this was 2002 when I was still in college, I might believe I was smarter than you, maybe. Now that I've run out of money and done all but nothing to exercise my brain for the past three years, though...

Then again, you don't strike me as having a low self esteem, and I can't think of any other reason for you to underestimate your intelligence...

I've checked and my vocabulary has gone down over the past eight months. I've found things that I had casually written then and I now need to tote a dictionary with me when I read them. Do you have any idea how terrifying that is?

[conuly]

I can't imagine my vocabulary decreasing, so no. I'll just gasp in horror and shock. *gasps*

Saying that I'm probably not smarter than you isn't the same as saying that you are probably smarter than I am. We could have approximately equal intelligence, which is what I believe to be the case, even if you aren't using your brain as you ought.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

agreed.

Still, I'm jealous of hte ammount of knowledge that you must accumulate.

[conuly]

I have a good memory for some things. Other things, not so much.

And I'm still jealous of my dad. He read slowly, I always thought, but once he read something, he never had to read it again, because he remembered everything.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

Ah, then I'll make a point of being jealous of both of you.

You, in turn, can be jealous of me because I'm 6'5" and can reach things on high shelves, or you can be jealous of me because I have a job where I sit in a room for eight hours at $8.25 an hour and get to read and write most of the time. You can be jealous of me because I'm particularly good at finding four leaf clovers, if you want to. You can be jealous of me because by the time I was a sophomore in highschool I had written more non-school related fiction than most people ever do in their lives (at least 600 lined pages, most of them college ruled.)