Stuff and business

[amberdreams]

Just a drive-by to apologise for being largely absent - Gishing is swallowing up my week, and I doubt I'll ever catch up with all your posts. Especially as I also need to finish my second BB art work, and read two long awaited Big Bangs PDQ!

But I wanted to come on to have a whinge. Then a moan/squee.

How come even online, I can still feel like the boring kid in the corner that never gets included in the cool kids' discussions? How come those horrible feelings from schooldays can linger when over forty years have gone by? I guess I'm just not cut out to be interesting enough that people want to email me to chat about stuff. You'd think at some point we'd grow out of this crap, wouldn't you. *sigh*

However, I refuse to let these stupid feelings of inadequacy get me down.

Gishweek is going rather well! Though I've failed to persuade my dentist surgery that they need a string quartet in the surgeries to calm their patients down. Which is sad, especially as I know other teams will manage that one. It's bugging me because I know two dentists, one in the US and one in Australia, and I have one friend in a string quartet and another whose kids are in the local Youth Orchestra, so it felt as though I should have been able to finagle it somehow.

Now I'm off to create an album cover featuring an animal rock star. Byeeee!

Comments

[sillie]

How come even online, I can still feel like the boring kid in the corner that never gets included in the cool kids' discussions? How come those horrible feelings from schooldays can linger when over forty years have gone by? I guess I'm just not cut out to be interesting enough that people want to email me to chat about stuff. You'd think at some point we'd grow out of this crap, wouldn't you. *sigh*

Omg, this. I've started to resent Twitter more and more these days. It's taken away so many awesome people from LJ. I can't check Twitter during the day, and way to much has been posted by the time I get home to catch up. I feel like I'm missing out on so much. Also, when I do try to participate in conversations, I usually get ignored and that only intensifies that feeling of being the outcast. :/

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, timing as well as time is a bastard for Twitter 'conversations'. And I don't think it's being ignored, it's that you can tweet a reply to something and it just gets lost in the noise because Twitter doesn't display threads logically.

[sillie]

But people do get a notification when you reply to something, so it really shouldn't get lost. But yes, I really hate how Twitter shows threads, so I haven't really used the actual Twitter site in ages. I use Tweetdeck. :3

[sillie]

Hmm, maybe. But when you reply to something, it also should end up in someone's notifications, and that way it should be not as hard to miss...