No work, anonymouse comments.

[slemslempike]

Maybe I won't do a phd after all. Because it turns out that I don't actually like doing revisions all that much, and in fact I simply just don't do them when I have to anyway. I've written rubbish, and I don't want to make it better, I just want it to be over. This is mostly just lazy whining. It could probably be fixed quite easily. I've had two weeks to do it, but I have written LITERALLY nothing in those two weeks. Bad idea, apparently.

I never post anonymous things, not least because whenever it occurs to me to do so someone else has already done it and I figure there wouldn't be any. But I haven't seen one for a bit. And I'm very bored. And I keep refreshing until there is something to see, and perhaps if there were occasionally comments I would do more work. So yes. Anonymous comments would be nice. Scandalous. Rude. Bitchy, oh, especially bitchy, or rambling, or just post whatever comes out with ctrl+v. I know this level of neediness is deeply unattractive, but I am past caring. I just want comments, so I have something to read that isn't the drivel I've written.

Comments

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

This is a non-anonymous comment when I empathise greatly with hating revisions. Sadly, moving into fiction writing rather than phd-ing has made no difference and they still expect you to revise the bloody things. I think this is a cruel and heartless thing to do.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I remember your posts of exasperation well with the editor with different ideas about punctuation! Although I'm sure, like me, you occasionally get to the point where you don't care what they want, as long as they tell you what do do, and you don't have to THINK.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

OH, so true. After a while I just didn't care and accepted all suggested changes whether I thought it made my book better or worse. Just to get rid of the damn thing, which by the time it was published I absolutely LOATHED. I got a good review and I worried about the sanity of the reviewer, frankly.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked your book! I am not very sane, but I have excellent taste.

[(Anonymous)]

On Friday, I had a random man yell at me for my car door apparently (and I beg to disagree) touching his car. If he'd been polite, I might have tried to sort out the problem, but because he offended me I took no notice and continued what I was doing.

I really dislike egg-plants and mushrooms. And those times when one keeps refreshing an LJ page in the hope that there may be something interesting to read.

There is a secret affair going on between two of your LJ friends, which would cause a big scandal if it came out.

When I am angry, I sometimes shake and I sometimes cry and I sometimes yell. On a particularly angry day, I can do all three at once.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oohhhhh - TANTALISING!!! I desperately want to know about the secret affair. I want to know if that was just to cheer me up or if it is in fact happening. I am of course interested in who, but frankly I think it would be more entertaining if I randonly matched up people on my flist and giggled insanely.

BOO yelling man. I also hate mushrooms! I am not too keen on aubergine either, though it is less of a hatred than the evil mushroom.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh it's true.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

OOOHHHHH. Do you know cos you're one of them, or did you find out through nefarious means, or did you see something you shouldn't???

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, okay, this is something I keep meaning to post in my journal but it's both petty AND boring. So I'd have to flock it even though no one would care. So I'm going to tell you instead. It's not interesting, though. Just so you know.

Okay. There is this guy - I'm assuming it's a guy, it SEEMS like a guy - who runs the ultraculture Adam and Joe website. Which is REALLY GOOD and has a lot of stuff that I hadn't seen before and all of that is fine. But the problem is that a few months ago he made this post in adam_and_joe being all, "this community is only linking to sites that never get updated! Why don't you link to THESE SITES (including mine) which are really good? (MINE IS THE BEST) Do that!"

And so I'm assuming he got his way because the links changed shortly afterwards. So that's all very well. Anyway, the only reason anyone actually reads the comm is because every week someone with an ugly icon faithfully posts links to the shows that someone else has uploaded from rapidshare. and, you know, they clearly don't put a huge amount of effort in (it's not like they're the ones doing the uploading or anything) but it's their job and they've been doing it since forever. But SOMETIMES the ultraculture guy posts the links. And he always does it with a special table and he puts a link to his own site at the bottom and OH GOD, I HATE HIM. I know that it doesn't actually make any SENSE to hate him as much as I do because, on balance, he's mostly doing things for the power of Good but I JUDGE HIM SO MUCH. And I think one of them mentioned his website on the show a few weeks ago and it filled me with rage. STOP VALIDATING HIM, OH GOD.

So, yes. That's my anonymous vendetta. It doesn't make sense and it's not all that exciting but it's good to get it out.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It does look very slick. And the icon of the other person is very ugly indeed. BUT HE'S STEALING THAT PERSON'S ROLE! Hmm. I JOIN YOUR VENDETTA FORTHWITH!

[(Anonymous)]

I was perplexed, but I went to the community and it made a bit more sense. I don't know, sometimes also people are just f$&king annoying, you know? Like, "power of the good" and whatever, but at the same time you kind of want to punch them in the you-know.

[(Anonymous)]

There are some people on my friendslist that I want to PUNCH in the FACE, for no reason other than that they are really earnest and wrong.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

On what subjects?

[(Anonymous)]

Take them off your friendslist? Or tell us why you keep them. I want to know what is > wanting to punch them.

[(Anonymous)]

I like cava better than champagne and Lambrini better than cava.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think I do too. Whenever I have had champagne I feel like it is wasted on me because I am too unsophisticated to appreciate it properly.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't care even a little bit about the US election and resented the hell out of every last post a non-American made about it.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ha. Which was worse for you - the lead-up, or the aftermath?

[(Anonymous)]

The aftermath. The patronising, never-ending, it's-a-brand-new-day aftermath.

I find myself oddly looking forward to the New-Boss-Same-as-the-Old-Boss wake up call that I'm sure is just round the corner.

[(Anonymous)]

I had been assuming for years that a person on my friends list who occasionally mentioned their partner was talking about a same-sex partner, until they suddenly used a pronoun, and it wasn't the one I was expecting. I now feel hugely embarrassed for no reason I can explain.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've had that disconnect too!

[(Anonymous)]

like someone above some of the people on my flist shit me to tears. they just complain all the time! about boring things like their housemate being a grot! it's not my fault, when i started an lj i thought of it as a blog, i didn't know it was full of angsty teenagers (and angsty really-not-teenagers-anymore-and-should-grow-up people). i want to defriend them but i don't want to offend them as i do sometimes see them in real life.

also i actually want to split a feminist/activist group that i'm involved in because most of them are old and just don't get it and i'm fed up

and finally i don't want to walk against warming on saturday and maybe i don't care about the environment as much as i care about other things and i'm worried that makes me a Bad Person and my friend's grandchildren will die because of me. worse, my boss seems to think i'm this big greenie and i have a crush on her and feel i need to live up to her expectations/idea of me. (on that note i am also unable to make normal conversation when i see her and i fear she's starting to think i'm boring)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Aw! I like complaining, so I'm quite happy when my flist complain about things. But then I also like that lj isn't a blog. I like the community aspect of lj, and blogs seem to think of readers as an audience instead. I AM NOT AN AUDIENCE.

I have to lecture on postfeminism soon, and I'm wondering if the students will think of me as not getting it because I'm old(er), rather than it being me knowing BETTER because I am WISE AND EXPERIENCED.

I'm sorry you have to walk. I don't like walking very much. Also I don't do well at conversation and it's just as well I don't know anyone I fancy, because that would be unimaginably dire.

[(Anonymous)]

well, that depends on the blog i think. there are quite a few that i read that are almost obsessed with the 'community' thing (or maybe the real problem is they sometimes try and achieve it in fairly naff ways e.g. throwing a question at the end of the post but not shaping the rest of the post as if it were part of a conversation. the test is whether the bloggers or writers reply to comments i think)

funny you should mention age and feminism as i was just reading an article which argues that it's normal for feminists (across ye ages) to start off in the movement when middle aged and to stay relatively in it into old age - that the yoof are the exception. interesting.

yes. fancying is bad and should be avoided at all costs.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know anything scandalous. I only find out about scandal six months afterwards when it's just a faintly embarrassing memory.

However, this news article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7720979.stm) amused me. It's the last but one paragraph that did it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't give a toss about Remembrance Day.

[(Anonymous)]

I am really broke at the moment - like, so broke I can't even afford to go out for a pint, because I am living at a loss from month to month - and yet a while ago I donated some money to a group present thing for an LJ friend's birthday, because they were having a hard time financially and it seemed like a nice thing to do (not a lot of money in the great scheme of things, but a lot for me at the moment). The person in question hasn't acknowledged the gift at all - I'm not wanting an individual acknowledgement, but there hasn't even been any sort of acknowledgement on LJ at large, and I would like to be the bigger person, but I admit that it has soured things, particularly when the person in question posts about doing things and going places I could never afford at the moment. I am petty! But I needed to vent.

(NB - this isn't about anyone on your flist, slem.)