1) Last year I set my MySpace account to “private” so that only people on my friends list had access to view my entire profile. Now my profile is viewable to the general public again, and I updated it with some new photos. Pretty much immediately after I did that, other users (meaning men) started sending me messages. Even though some of them are inevitably creepy (”Hey, hottie, send me MORE PHOTOS! Yeeeeaaahhhh!!!”), some of the messages are actually…nice. And the guys are…not bad at all. This might get interesting.
2) All of the printers at work (including the Xerox machine) have been given names by our IT Director. So if he sends an email saying, “Wonder Woman is out of order,” or “Use Flash instead,” we all know which machine he’s talking about. Still, yesterday it was quite humorous when my office-mate said, in a matter-of-fact tone while musing about which printer she was going to use: “I think this is a job for Superman.”
3) Wendy tagged me for a 6-word memoir. (Does she remembers my rotten attitude when I did a 6-word memoir in sentences?) Lucky for her, I’m not in a rotten mood today! So I’m going to take her lead and give six words that describe me, instead of sentences. In no particular order, I am:
Silly
Sarcastic
Independent
Calm
Hopeful
Careful
(Silly, but calm? And sarcastic? Yes, I’m all of those.)
4) MizFit left a comment on the post I wrote yesterday about names and egoism, saying she thought using the name Zandria on my blog was just “a play on Alexandria and you were rolling incognito.” For all the rest of you who are more recent readers and might have been wondering, yes, this is my real name. And when I moved back to Virginia from California in the summer of 2006, I posted a photo of my driver’s license to prove it.
5) I’m writing this post today from Richmond. I took the day off work and scheduled an appointment to get my hair done at 10am, so I drove down last night rather than leaving early this morning. Tonight I’m meeting my mom and sisters for dinner (my little sister’s 25th birthday was a few weeks ago, and mom’s birthday was yesterday, so we’re going out to celebrate). I’ll be back in Alexandria tomorrow and already have things lined up to do, and new people to talk to, so it should be a good time. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
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Thanks for playing. I like your description. Have a great weekend!
The printer names are far more interesting than the ones at my office where they just get called HP SErver, HP Color, etc…
Enjoy your day off and the time spent celebrating birthdays!
Re the memoir, “hopeful” is the one I like best. It’s a good quality.
If you end up with MySpace hookup stories, please post immediately. Thank you.
Girl, let me tell ya, I did some MS hook ups last summer – it is a TRIP! Have fun with it. It’s so funny, some of the men that come around on there are hilarious. Have a good time and maybe you will meet someone really cool.
I vacillate between finding MySpace supremely creepy and really really cool. The unwanted attention can get to be a little bit much, but I have a friend who met her fiance on MySpace, another who met her husband on Craig’s List of all places, (and I met my husband on Yahoo personals). You never know who’s out there…
I must be the only person left that does not have a myspace or other social networking account. I tried friendster.com at one point in time a few years ago. But it was mainly a bunch of people adding as many “friends” as they could. People who they never met, never message, and never plan to do so. To me it was a, “My dick is bigger than yours because I have more ‘friends’ than you.”
So, after I closed that account, I never bothered with the rest of them, MySpace, Orkut, etc… I had a flickr profile for a while, but deleted that in favor of using my .Mac account to share my pictures with my family.
I simply don’t understand social networking sites.
“this is a job for superman”
hahahhaa
love the IT solution at your work.
xo Tam
We used to have Disney named printers – Alice and Ariel usually pooped out right about the same time, if I remember correctly.
I want to move to Virginia so I can have a heart on my driver’s license!
I met my husband on MySpace (so it can happen).
I love the printer names, our IT dept names our servers after deceased clients…extremely creepy…
The only printer I’ve ever seen named at a job was named Demon Spawn. She was kind of a drama queen.
I met my boyfriend on Myspace! Yes, there are some creepy guys, but I’m sure that’s the case on match.com and the like (I never tried those, but I’ve heard). The thing I liked about Myspace is that you can see who the guy is friends with, who comments on his page, and lots of other stuff you wouldn’t get on a site specifically for dating.
Good luck!