Did Mercury or something just go into retrograde? I swear, I'm getting the most pissy customers today.

"This is the problem, it needs X to fix it. Do X."
"I need to confirm the problem, sir, I think it might need Y."
"No, I know what's wrong! Do X! Put me in contact with one of your supervisors so they can do X!"
"Can you tell me what version of the program you're using?"
"You don't know how to do your job, do you! Why don't you just do X like I told you! Fine, here's the information."
"X won't work on this version."
"I want someone who isn't brand new! Someone who knows how to do X!"

Friday. I can sleep in tomorrow.

Hi other Mes! *blows big Dating Game kisses*

Comcast is the debbil. It went offline for no apparent reason other than it could for a couple of hours this morning. Now, it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that they telemarketed me last night, asking if I wanted to bundle my cable internet with their phone service, would it?

"No, I really don't. I'm happy with my current phone service."

"But do you pay less than nineteen ninety-five per month?"

"Honestly? Have no clue. It's bundled with other services."

"But—"

"Sorry, gotta go, thanks ever so, ta."

And this morning, a mysterious two hour outage of my internet service.

Hmm...

Congrats, Daniel. Retroactive raises rock!

I think brownies and veggies are two thirds of a perfect dinner. The other third is wine.

I knew I forgot something!

Face it, folks. We are all a bunch of internet geeks. We are some of the shiniest, foamiest internet geeks on the planet, but we are still internet geeks. Introverted is just the beginning of that.

Heh. You know how at most parties there is a little room somewhere with two or three people being anti-social? They've found a computer or they're tidying the kitchen or they're having some earnest conversation about something they saw on Frontline? With us that side room is almost the entire party, isn't it?

Okay, I'm sorry, and I don't mean to offend, but -- I'm actually laughing my ass off at the Introvert Roll Call, because -- seriously, if we are ALL introverts, the F2F wouldn't have been stressful for me. IJS. *Someone(s)* has to be behind the WHO IS AWESOME??? WE ARE AWESOME!!!!!! LET US DANCE AND DRINK AND GROPE AND DANCE SOME MORE AND CONGREGATE IN LARGE PACKS AND DID I MENTION GROPE AND WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

(Okay, that's actually just how SF2F Prom felt to me. To be fair, SF2F coincided with some Teppy Personal Growth wherein I needed to start asserting my personal boundary of DO. NOT. TOUCH. ME. WITHOUT. WARNING. And no one really knew that, so when they grabbed/groped/unannounced-shoulder-rubbed me, I flipped out HARD CORE.)

And it's *really* difficult at such a grope-friendly event to tell people that you don't wish to be groped. Which is why whatever con it was that had the color-coded stickers for "Touch my boobs!" "Don't touch my boobs!" actually didn't seem like that bad of an idea, IN THEORY.

I feel very much the same way (and also dealt at one stage with a friend who thought that introverts were just being selfish. And ungodly, as this was in the FAC).

Oh, man. I have SO been there with my ex-FAC. Wanting downtime or personal space was selfish and therefore sinful and -- "But don't you value what THE LORD values??? Why *wouldn't* you want to do what THE LORD values????"

Asshats.

(Hm. Clearly I still have hostility about them. Fuckers.)

Or, who doesn't know my safe word.

::starts guessing:: Waterloo? Rutabega?

I did, in fact, use "rutabega" once. No, really.

To no one's surprise, I am an extrovert. I am also a nurturer, so that means if think I see someone I care about being unhappy, I try to help. At an F2F, this will sometimes translate to seeing someone off by themselves, and me bounding over to make sure that they're okay. Which, if they're trying to take a break, is not helpful. So, if I've done that to anyone, I apologize.

Ha! I remember I was crying in the hallway at the SF2F Prom b/c I was so stressed, and Vortex came up and -- the order of events is VERY important here -- (1) hugged me, and (2) asked what was wrong.

Me: "People keep *touching* me and invading my personal space and I can't STAND it!!!"

Vortex: ".... Shit. I guess I shouldn't have hugged you, huh?"

Which made me laugh and laugh and did actually make me feel better.

Man, I feel like crap. Just allergies and tiredness.

Been on the phone for EVAH dealing with my tivo's issues with digital cable. (Well, it's issues with 3 digit channels - they just happen to all be digital cable.)

I think we figured it out. But the problem is so random that I won't know for sure until it fails.

Also, started my scarf for the Ravelympics. And I love the yarn - alpaca/silk - both soft AND flexible. Also a gorgeous shade of red.

Believe it or not I *can* be an introvert.

Not usually, but I can.

F2Fs don't count because not only do I feel I know most of youse guys, but there is usually copious amounts of Liquid I Love You, Man.

But I have had those moments at F2Fs where something in your hind-brain goes "too many people, no space, NO AIR, TOO LOUD, TOO MANY FUCKING PEOPLE RUN RUN RUN AAAAIIIIIEEEEE!!!"

But then I go have some more Liquid I Love You, Man and get over it. Which may not work for everyone.

Sometimes, this results in stripey-tights, so don't try this at work.

F2Fs are kind of a special case, for me anyway.

And anyway, while we may all be running off to hide out heads under the covers every so often, we're not doing it at the same time, so the average room density doesn't change all that much.

Sometimes, this results in stripey-tights

beams

Very few of you have ever seen me go into Convention Mode, which is something I did while working for WotC. The first time Pete ever witnessed it, he was a little freaked out.

*Someone(s)* has to be behind the WHO IS AWESOME??? WE ARE AWESOME!!!!!! LET US DANCE AND DRINK AND GROPE AND DANCE SOME MORE AND CONGREGATE IN LARGE PACKS AND DID I MENTION GROPE AND WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

raises hand Again, gregarious introvert who is happy and relaxed among people she knows. Okay, maybe less "relaxed" and more "Tigger on speed AND ecstasy", but you get the drift.

But! I also did stay at my own place for most of the SFF2F, just because I knew I'd need my cave.

there is usually copious amounts of Liquid I Love You, Man.

There's that, too.

Tep, I don't know if I ever said exactly how sorry I was that I invaded your space at SFF2F. That's kind of stuck with me, and I feel awful for making you so uncomfortable.