Diary of a poly geek.

As written on irc: i now have a cute bf and a cute gf in the house, and what are we all doing? sitting in front of 3 separate screens, not interacting at all.

(I'm reading livejournal and browsing eBay, Richard is looking online for paintball equipment & Alexa's playing Fur Fighters on the Dreamcast. We are such spods, the lot of us.)

my train of thought as I tried to get to sleep

A couple of nights ago, I wrote a livejournal entry in my head whilst trying to get to sleep. Unlike most lj entries I write in this state, this one actually survived being carried around for a few days, due to its exceedingly high proportion of tenuous links.

I was thinking about old friends I haven't seen or heard from in a long time (for reasons that may become obvious if I ever get round to posting the extremely long friends-only entry that's been brewing awhile), and I thought about my friend Pete. He used to be a "baby shark diver" in Thailand, and I first met him when he was in the UK after the tourist season was over one year. Then he went to Germany to do a veterinary course and I've seen him sporadically since. That led me onto the topic of people who overuse the phrase "lol" (as Pete would always end his emails "LoL".). I wonder how many of the people who use "lol" as punctuation realise it's short for "laughing out loud"? Worse than LOL all over the place is "LOLOL" - what does that mean? "Laughing out loud out loud"?

"Laughing,
oh laughing
Out loud." ?

Back in my day, we had variants of "lol" for when something was amusing enough to warrant it. There was "rotfl" - "rolls on the floor laughing" and "fohcl" - "falls off his/her chair laughing". Back then, hatter used to use neuter gender all the time online. He wasn't making a big genderqueer statement or anything, it was just that it was amusing to deliberately refuse to give out gender information to idiots who were trolling for net.sex. Not many people had met him in real life, and those who had thought it was amusing to continue the joke. Also, at the time, he was using an account with username "buxmjp", which when fingered would give out a real name of "Mary Jane Petersen", and coincidentally looked rather like "buxom"! So he would always write "foicl" - "falls off its chair laughing".

hatter's gender neutral status was something of a joke amongst hardcore talker spods in 1995. However, later that year, it verged scarily into real life. He was accompanying narenek/Stuart to a function, and Stuart was spotted by one of his cow-orkers. Now, Stuart is straight, and Marcus is definitely male. But Stuart's cow-orker promptly congratulated him on "having pulled"! Somehow, when viewed from behind, Marcus's long hair was enough to confuse him. Oh dear.

The dangers of mixing mothers with livejournal.

While I was editing that last post, my mother came up behind me asking a question. I was busy thinking, so didn't answer it straight away. She went on talking at me, and my input buffer started to overflow. So to get my attention, she grabbed my hair, which is a bit wet, and said "I'm talking to you curly wurly", or something like that. *shudder*. I hate having my hair touched unexpectedly. I don't much like it at the best of times. So I just YELLED at her. And poor Alexa must think now that i'm evil violent h-l or something.

I can't really describe this. Surely she could see I was thinking? I mean, she's my mother, she knows how I work. She's had long enough to work it out, anyway. Now my stomach's all upset so I'm farting all over the room and gassing Alexa, and my mother's in a sulk. Hmmm.

Some health stuff, not very interesting.

Oh, marking my mood as aggravated has made me remember what I was going to post about before the mother incident happened. I usually have a pretty good sense of where I am in my menstrual cycle by how I feel emotionally - I have a very clear mood pattern presumably correlating with hormones. However, since I've been in this bad depression for the past three weeks, I have no idea where I am because I feel lousy all the time. Past two days, I've been having a couple of nightmares each night, and today I seem to be much more irritable than normal - plus I have low belly and breast pain, so I'm clearly premenstrual - I just don't know how premenstrual *sigh*.

My cold is getting better at the rate I expected it to. ( Even less interesting than the previous paragraph, but thought I'd leave it here in case you're very bored )