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slemslempike ([personal profile] slemslempike) wrote2008-11-05 09:28 am
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Juding by most of the rest of lj, this is where I make an overwhelmingly condescending post about the US election.

I went to the dentist at 9am this morning. Unfortunately my appointment was yesterday.

I have to go to Preston for a meeting. This is much less enjoyable now I can't combine it with meeting up with [livejournal.com profile] nerdcakes.

I looked up MANY celebrity birthdays yesterday and NOT ONE of them came up in the pub quiz. I was livid.

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well of course people have the right to comment on anything they please. I'm being irritated by the cloying and patronising nature of some of the comments I've been seeing, which is also my right.

[identity profile] sabethea.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
To be honest, recently I've had the feeling that everything I personally say irritates you. Which is a pity, but I shall endeavour to stop commenting on your posts until I feel more confident.

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to start by saying that I'm very sorry that I've given that impression. There is literally no-one I know who doesn't irritate me from time to time, but that's about me and not humanity in general. You do not irritate me all or even most of the time.

I'm not sure where you get the impression that I'm irritated by you. I've just been back over all our comment exchanges since the start of this year, and there's only one that I could class as being written less than friendlily (this one, just so you know), and it's certainly the only one where I intended to convey any irritation with the comment.

I'm certainly not telling you that your feelings are invalid, because if you feel that way then you do, and I'm truly sorry for anything I've contributed to it, but it's not intentional, and I don't recognise it in anything I've written.

If you will feel better not commenting on my posts then of course don't - I'd rather you did whatever makes you comfortable, even if I feel sad about it. I'm not sure how to phrase the next bit because it seems somehow very wanky, but I'm worried about upsetting you in your journal too, because I seem to be conveying something in my writing that I don't mean, so would you like me not to comment on your journal too?

oh, thank goodness for that. I really did feel like I was saying rubbish things all the time

[identity profile] sabethea.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*g*

Funnily enough, that wasn't at all the one I had in mind. Because I was just throwing it in as another possibility, and since you were there, I thought that you were likely to know best. Which probably shows my inability to know what's going on. I think, after the exchange with someone in my journal who very nearly told me that if I didn't have only 2 weeks to live I had no right to complain, I've been slightly paranoid about everything.

Which might also have something to do with agitated depression, I suppose. Just possibly. And the fact that you have (probably wisely) not commented much on all my recent whinging which always makes me wonder if people are sitting there and thinking oh for GOODNESS SAKE! and thinking it loud enough that I ought to be hearing it. Then, of course, I start seeing it in everything I read.

Oh good.

No, that is fine. And I feel so much happier about everything that you should be Very Grateful you are not within hugging distance as I would probably be doing the cuddling and crying on your shoulder which would certainly embarrass me later and probably you too.

Re: oh, thank goodness for that. I really did feel like I was saying rubbish things all the time

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no! Now I'm wondering which one came off as abrasive to you. Sorry about it. And if someone had left me a comment like that I'd be feeling more than slightly paranoid too. FFS.

I'm glad I won't have to stop commenting on your journal. I know I don't comment very often - I'm not doing very well at managing to comment to everyone at the moment, and often it's my issues that are similar to yours showing up - reading what I'm about to post, thinking it's the worst thing anyone's ever written and so just not saying anything.

And if we were within hugging distance I would totally cuddle you and not mind the crying at all. XX

Re: oh, thank goodness for that. I really did feel like I was saying rubbish things all the time

[identity profile] sabethea.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs and cries with no shame*

[identity profile] sabethea.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
And another comment to say that you have totally improved my day. Thank you.

*is a bit wet sometimes*