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Clio, a vibrating mass of YES! ([personal profile] jlh) wrote2004-07-14 01:17 pm

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I simply cannot focus. I'm not bored, exactly, as there are things I could be doing. But, there haven't been a lot of people on YM lately, and I didn't realize how much vaguely chatting with everyone gets me through the workday. So instead, I've been perusing friendsfriends. What I love about that is seeing some totally crazy community or person ranting and you can click through to their info to see who the bloody hell on your flist has them friended. My results so far are:
  • People who don't want kids enough to be in a community about it seem really angry. Dude, you have my total support. There is nothing worse on this earth that people who don't want kids, having kids. But seriously, is the hostility necessary?

  • There are a lot of Alton Brown fans out there and thank god for that. I love that on his blog he said "The fact that "Dr." Phil has the number 1 cookbook on Amazon.com makes me want to end it all."

  • I need Photoshop now now now now now because I am suffering from severe icon envy and now I want to sit around making icons of everything I think is cool. Which is a lot of stuff, let me tell you. Luckily I have connections.

  • Silly entries are fun from friends and entirely uninteresting from strangers.

I am going to put friendsfriends on my link list for ease of use. Further proof of my lack of focus:

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I am hugely loving the "indie rock" channel on YM radio. Also, thanks to [livejournal.com profile] the_snoo my new catchphrase is "gay gay gay." As in, "I watched a documentary on Peter Allen last night and wow, was he gay. Gay gay gay."

[identity profile] wordplay.livejournal.com 2004-07-14 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Following your suggestions (Thanks so much! That was exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for!) I ordered Emma from Amazon last night, and PSP 8 was also in my shopping cart when I made it to checkout. My, my, how did that get in there? *tries desperately to look innocent* It should be here in a couple of weeks, and then the world needs to watch out, as I will be an icon-making fiend. I so cannot wait.

I also get that childfree community on friendsfriends a lot, and it just makes me feel, well, like shit. *shrug* Nothing like reading a lot of random and unfocused hatred being turned toward one of your most important and personal life choices to brighten your day. :)

[identity profile] skg.livejournal.com 2004-07-14 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I have seen the CF communities out there. There is a lot of anger.

Of that anger, I am totally with them on the (aka I am sick of) "you'll change your mind" or "you're unnatural" and especially "that is so selfish" responses when you tell people you aren't having children (after being prodded into discussing it).

*sigh*



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[identity profile] kay-taylor.livejournal.com 2004-07-15 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
People who don't want kids enough to be in a community about it seem really angry.

Personally, just need somewhere to rant when people who claim to KNOW me spend ten minutes going all "awww, you'll change your mind when you get older!". The constant patronising "all women want kids, honey" thing drives me around the bend, and I like to know that there are people I can whinge to when it happens. I'm not angry about kids or the lack of them per se, just the assumption that I don't know my own mind simply because I have a uterus.

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