I have to come up with a subject, too?

[brigdh]

Blah, what a day.

It's in the low fifties and it's just a miserable, grey, drippy sort of day. I got an IM from a high school friend, just now thanking me for helping her with her paper a week or so ago. I haven't talked to this girl in months, possibly a year, and yet she felt it was perfectly appropriate to IM me and, without even pretending to have a conversation or asking how I'd been or thanking me, told me to look up references for her so she could write some report on the night before it was due. There are so many reasons why I deliberately cut off contact with most of my high school friends as soon as I entered college, but this is... Well. I can't really say that this is new. This is the latest.

I had to write an email to someone for whom I do care deeply, and yet it's quite likely I will never hear from her again, because of real life problems. And then I noticed that I'd been defriended by someone else, probably because I don't comment on enough of her posts.

I am never going to get the hang of this whole social thing.

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[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Let's just look at this again, shall we? Some person who doesn't bother to stay in touch with you IMs you out of the blue to demand that you do her academic work for her, and you think you're the one who doesn't get this social thing? Because I'm thinking it's her.

And I'm not just saying that because I like you, while I am predisposed to hate all your high school friends for having voted for George Bush.

But to continue the theme of social phenomena that one doesn't understand: I am never going to understand this whole friending/defriending thing. Especially if you're right about the person you're referring to, because how could anyone possibly comment on everyone else's posts all the time? How are there enough hours in the day? It isn't a matter of affection or desire; it's a matter of physical possibility.

-- But no. I'm not going to think too hard about this. Or the idea that people are keeping track of who comments on their journals, and how regularly, and then defriending some of them based on the scorecard is going to make my head explode.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, see, there you go being all logical. How am I supposed to angst now?

Heh. If it makes you feel any better, most people don't keep track of who comments and who doesn't. Which is such a good thing, because I get shy and won't comment to people's journals for months, despite reading every post. It's kind of an immature thing to do and, for whatever reason, in my experience it seems to be limited to people who also have friends-locked journals. But I know that she does, because she's outright said that she does, and that people who don't keep up get defriended. And I've gone through this exact thing once before with her.

...but right now there is the biggest, brightest rainbow I have ever seen outside, which must be some kind of sign.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

How am I supposed to angst now?

Well, you know how I feel about angst. If it's not going to lead to the hot sex, what's even the point?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha! *dies*

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Seconded. On all counts.