You can see if I'm there though. If you haven't been active on your machine it says "inactive for 5 minutes" or whatev.

What brave new world that has such wonders in't!

Our system doesn't do that. Statuses are changed manually, and most people don't bother.

But now that were more spread out in this building, the cases of people shooting nerf arrows to get others' attention are down.

As in "I can't prescribe this drug to you because parts of it are harmful in the wrong amount"? IE, "the scientific discovery that small amounts of dangerous chemicals have life-saving abilities is a no-no because you shouldn't ingest icky naughty things that could be harmful, m'kay?"

That's my worry, but I'm hoping he knows better and was just being very inarticulate. Which, okay, still a problem for a writing class but at least I don't have to worry about his comprehension of science.

Walking through Target yesterday, I discovered the Intimates section has Avengers pajama bottoms for women!

...what?! Well, clearly I need to go to Target this weekend, because I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED.

Seriously!

jesus f, people. STOP SENDING ME IMs THAT JUST SAY HI.

SAME. I also have one who IMs me, "Do you have a minute?" I would have been done answering your question if you had just asked it already!!

Sour stomach all damned day. At least I was at home where I could manage it easily. But after my swim, got an amazing compliment from a fellow swimmer, so that was nice.

My city's awesome youth are protesting and pretty much a hundred times more accountable and grown up than the damn adults in leadership. It depressing right now, but gives me hope they'll eventually be the ones leading the city.

Cone free! Hopefully it sticks.

But it seems so abrupt to just IM someone "do you know yet if Toa is coming to Tucson with me next week?!?" But I usually write hi or hey or do you have a sec and then pretty immediately send a next one with the actual question. Unless I want a phone call for deniability reasons. Then it's "hey, got a second? I wanted to talk about Toa..."

Yeah, it's the waiting for a response that's annoying, IMO.

So I just accidentally watched five minutes of Jane the Virgin and now I definitely have to start watching it. Should I go back to the beginning, or can I just jump in?

I'm totally a "hi" person. I never realized it was such an issue! Thing is, sometimes if I have a question, my action depends on the result, and having it asked but not answered is a different thing than never having asked it, so I need to know the person's available before I ask it. That, and I feel really awkward saying, "Hey, [topical and timely joke, comment, or sympathy]" and not getting a reply for a week (or several years, which makes reigniting the conversation particularly weird.)

But I will attempt to be more aware of when I need a pingback and when I just want one so I don't feel awkward. Adjustment made, possibly fewer people annoyed.

I'm going to say this is just a thing at work, not my personal life. When you can tell I'm there!

But I usually write hi or hey or do you have a sec and then pretty immediately send a next one with the actual question.

That's totally fine. And I can see if they continue typing so I will wait for sec before getting my rage on.

But Hi and then nothing until I stop what I'm doing and respond? Nuh and uh. That's way more intrusive than email.

ETA = and yeah, this is all about work. Different rules apply.