Shir, could you go work somewhere else? Even if your computer is not a lap-top, just take the files you need and go to some library or university room?

You know, you could even come to my place, if you anyway need to come to the area later today - my home computer would love some company.

[Edited to wave at Cass.]

Nilly, I can't move anywhere. I'm on vpn connection to a backoffice, and they don't like the idea of using wireless connection while using the vpn thing.

I have earplugs which I use for noise rock shows I go to. It helps, somewhat.

Also, not sure I'm posting it in the right thread, but you guys seen this?

Oh, I'm sorry you have no choice. I hope the earplugs work.

Also, you know that there's a Firefly thread, right?

I know now, thanks.

And still don't understand how you people keeping track after all these threads.

You know you can subscribe to threads in your profile page, right?

Then they appear in your message center, indicating new posts when there are ones, or you can be directed straight to those new messages by clicking the Read New link.

[Edit: and now I wonder if I didn't understand your problem and just stated-the-obvious and your question was something else entirely. Oh, well.]

The Aztecs ROCKED.

This post is brought to you by the letters I (for insomnia) and B (for bloodlust -- seriously, how can a whole society be that hinged on offing people gleefully, and how badly do I want my sister to bring me back an Aztec knife from her current Mexico trip?).

Oh, dear, I know all of this, because you explained it so well in your emails the first time I tried to understand how this board works.

I'm just afraid that my brain will explode trying to keep track of threads and posts, if I'll add another tiny thread to my message center. Staying out of touch with a computer for more than 48 hours now seems quite impossible. It's like the term Fisheye.co.il uses, MMA (initials in Hebrew for Terrifying New Posts Monster).

ita, there's another "b", for "boo insomnia!".

Shir, um, how to break this to you? I don't think anybody keeps up. Skip and skim is your friend. Also, threadsucking. I personally love the message center, even if it tells me that I'm thousands of posts behind in the literary thread, for example, I still enjoy knowing that it's there and waiting for me.

Urk. Okay, maybe now I can sleep. I wish I had Benadryl or something non-narcotic and drowse-inducing around.

I used to read every post. Those days are LONG gone. Damned proliferation.

ita, I wish that by the time I type this, you'll already be asleep.

It's not fair that while one person fights every fiber of her being to stay awake, another has such a struggle to actually sleep. This is not the sort of balance I like.

I used to read every post.

I almost added "maybe other than ita" in my former post. Then I remembered that you once said that you had skipped, so I believed you and didn't.