Day of slack
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badgerbagMy mom and I sorted through all the kids' clothes and got rid of things. In her view I should get rid of much much more like anything with a hole in it. But whatever... those sweaters will get lost 5 minutes from now anyway, I'm not going to toss them and replace them with something from the Boden catalog... ffs.
I forgot to take the cymbalta this morning and then kept getting dizzy and twitchy and my leg hurting like hell. Then realized it was forgetting the meds. Duhhhh!!!
Came home from the hardware store and then just sort of fell over for the afternoon. I didn't swim. Maybe tomorrow.. my mom made us spaghetti. The house smells awesome. I have heard a lot of gossip. There are a lot of projects that we now have the stuff for, from the hardware store - hanging pictures, fixing up various things -- i have no energy though. One thing a day. We laid around in the sun in the back yard reading and my mom is working on her needlepoint bird.
Read halfway through Neesha Meminger's Into The Wise Dark. It's very good! I love it so far!
Then, omg, I read up on a very complicated online hoax, Warrior Eli, that was just uncovered a week or so ago. The perp started blogging under a fictional identity when she was eleven years old and now is 22. Her protagonist, a young man named JS, had 11 different children by various girlfriends and ... uh... was a Mountie... I forget what else. Cybered a lot of lonely married women. Gave a lot of cancer advice and blogged about his son with cancer. Then his wife Dana the trauma surgeon was hit by a car and gave birth while brain dead and on life support. On Mothers' Day. Yeah. At that point the hoax hit the fan.
I ate so much spaghetti I can't even lie down. Ahahahaha! fatal! there is ice cream.
Zond7 is obsessing on arduinos and I may join him soon... i made one blink which i have done a million times and then not gone any further.
Thinkig of writing that hoax/sockpuppet book. I would love to really highlight the methods people use both to do the work of maintaining those identities, and the work of uncovering hoaxes and debunking. And the aftermath years later. But it is the processes and the MO that really fascinate me (and no one talks with the perps about it really -- mostly about their emotional state, or their intention, or pathologizing them.)
It's really a good thing that cats exist. that's all.
I forgot to take the cymbalta this morning and then kept getting dizzy and twitchy and my leg hurting like hell. Then realized it was forgetting the meds. Duhhhh!!!
Came home from the hardware store and then just sort of fell over for the afternoon. I didn't swim. Maybe tomorrow.. my mom made us spaghetti. The house smells awesome. I have heard a lot of gossip. There are a lot of projects that we now have the stuff for, from the hardware store - hanging pictures, fixing up various things -- i have no energy though. One thing a day. We laid around in the sun in the back yard reading and my mom is working on her needlepoint bird.
Read halfway through Neesha Meminger's Into The Wise Dark. It's very good! I love it so far!
Then, omg, I read up on a very complicated online hoax, Warrior Eli, that was just uncovered a week or so ago. The perp started blogging under a fictional identity when she was eleven years old and now is 22. Her protagonist, a young man named JS, had 11 different children by various girlfriends and ... uh... was a Mountie... I forget what else. Cybered a lot of lonely married women. Gave a lot of cancer advice and blogged about his son with cancer. Then his wife Dana the trauma surgeon was hit by a car and gave birth while brain dead and on life support. On Mothers' Day. Yeah. At that point the hoax hit the fan.
I ate so much spaghetti I can't even lie down. Ahahahaha! fatal! there is ice cream.
Zond7 is obsessing on arduinos and I may join him soon... i made one blink which i have done a million times and then not gone any further.
Thinkig of writing that hoax/sockpuppet book. I would love to really highlight the methods people use both to do the work of maintaining those identities, and the work of uncovering hoaxes and debunking. And the aftermath years later. But it is the processes and the MO that really fascinate me (and no one talks with the perps about it really -- mostly about their emotional state, or their intention, or pathologizing them.)
It's really a good thing that cats exist. that's all.
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Date: 2012-06-08 02:54 am (UTC)and it kind of spectrums into more "normal" people too-- like I developed a new persona on the internet and then became more like that person in real life. I honestly do not know if I would have grown this much without being able to.. rehearse" my growth, sort of, under the safety of pseudonymity.
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Date: 2012-06-09 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-09 08:49 pm (UTC)