I'm eating Krispy Kreme AIFG!

I'm on Facebook and keep intending to set up a MySpace account mostly because I've been told they're a good free publicity thing for author types, and maybe someday I'll actually sell a book. I'll need all the free publicity I can get, and I figure already knowing how to use the sites will help. But I can't imagine using them in preference to email to communicate. They're just not as direct, unless I'm missing something. I mean, my niece who's getting married in January is on Facebook, and I've been using it to keep up with her wedding plans, and when we talk about AB being a flower girl, half of it is on my page and half on Rachel's, and it's just so disjointed compared to if we were doing it in email and it was all neatly threaded in my gmail account as God intended.

Let me here reveal my scaly dinosaur skin and the tiny peanut-sized brain in my tail by saying that I completely don't understand Facebook. I'm signed up on it, and I'm always getting vampire and greening the earth and virtual cupcake offers from Buffistas and other friends, and I attempt to respond but then I feel like I'm spamming everyone I know with useless shit, and I don't understand how to send people messages, and I don't get how the communities work, and I've derived no networking benefits from it at all other than being added to the friends network of a co-worker in my now-ex-boss's Columbus office who is looking for no-strings-attached atheist sex playmates and possible bowling buddies (really? You post this "Looking for" request under your professional profile? Um, okay).

JZ is me. Well, except for the sexing and bowling parts.

somehow they (a) seem like a chore in a way that just picking up the phone isn't

Man, I am the exact opposite - I almost always find it easier to text than to call.

sits with Jessica in the "text rules! phone drools!" corner

Holy ass -- Coco Cox Arquette is almost four! t /watching Ellen

Text is the shiznit. Phones are awful and should go away out of my world.

Phone haters of the world unite! (We'll plan the meetup on Facebook...)

All I know is that I keep hearing threatening noises about cell service in the subways, and I really really hope they can do it data-only, because the idea of everyone yapping away makes me cringe.

I was confused by my first text message but I caught on quickly. I just texted my roommate. It's great because we can communicate stealthily while he's waiting tables.

I don't like Facebook, and the longer I go without logging in the less I want to. I didn't have texting on my phone plan, but I just added it because my brothers use it and I'd rather not have to pay per message for them if I'm forced to use it.

I was all relaxed after a massage and facial with my mom, and then I came home to discover the dog had chewed through a corner of her crate and destroyed it. WTF.

Happily, I had an ALL METAL crate in the garage, left over from the old dog. I think she will not like it as much. I just wish I knew why she'd freaked out: she's never done that before.