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RANTS *frustration*
Feb. 14th, 2005 12:48 pmRANT ONE:
Oooh. I'm irritated. Hobbity just informed me that the Grey Panthers have reopened. What the frick is up with that???
Okay. Long story coming:
I was a member of an LotR-humor board called Elijah's Grey Panthers. (GP's, the GP, whatever. You get the idea.) All was happy and sunny there, jokes abounded, great source for new Lij pictures. It was a good thing.
And then sometime in, like...October, I think...yes. The last days of September, I think it may've been the 30th or 29th, the admins there declared that with 400+ members, the board had lost its close-knit family feeling like it had had originally, so they were scaling back--membership was no longer open and they were cutting back to their original dozen or so members. That was a sad day.
I applied to be let back in, kept checking back to see if they'd heard my plea. One day I found an ezinbox message from HobbityShoeSupply (aka Waffles/Waffley/Hobbity/HSS/she of many names) that basically said she wanted to keep in contact with some of the other "rejects." I ezinboxed her back and was all "OH! YAY! Human contact!" Lol. I reminded her that somewhere on one of the Official GP Messages, we were given permission to go start a new board for ourselves, and making my long story not quite so long, DLBE was born. On October 5th, we co-founded DomLijBilEans: Lord of the Onion Rings, our own spinoff board. It was basically the same board with open membership and only about five members. (We started with, like, five, and have grown to thirteen.)
It's been great! After about a month I didn't even miss GP anymore because we did just as much on our own. I dearly love the DLBE board.
And then today Hobbity emails me and tells me that GP has opened up free membership again.
That leaves us in a quandary--do we leave DLBE open? Do we let people go to both? Do we inquire about maybe moving our threads to the GP board? I mean, when you start something to counteract being thrown out, and then you're let back in...gah.
And we have our own in-jokes at DLBE that the GP crowd won't get. (I ate Waffles!) It's just--I'm very frustrated and confused and I have my email open in another window, debating what to tell Hobbity. Gah. And here back in October I would have rejoiced at this news.
So anyway. I just emailed Hobbity and told her that closing DLBE is NOT an option as far as I'm concerned. But what to do? It's not so much a matter of us being in any kind of danger or whatever, but it's just a matter of ettiquette as anything else.
RANT TWO (mostly copied from one of my posts on the plaza):
You know what irritates me? People who talk/act like they're huge fans (of Lij or Orli or whoever) and then DON'T HAVE THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT. I was talking to a girl at church yesterday and we were all happy because Orli broke up with Kate Bosworth, but then she insisted that the two of them had been engaged (which they never were, that was just a rumor that went around). And she was wearing an "I Love Orlando" ring. That just annoyed the heck out of me.
Now, see, I either look things up for myself or ask for a confirmation, or I pass it on as "I HEARD this, I don't know if it's right." If it's not one of my main guys (like, say, if it's about Viggo or Sean Bean) I'll admit that the bigger fan is more likely to know than I am. It's why I don't like to hang around my acquaintance Kira so much anymore, she talks like she's a huge fan of Orli's but then doesn't know simple things. (She has a pic of Orli where he had some temporary tattoos on, and she insists that they're real and that he covers them with makeup at all his public appearances. Shelly--you know the pic I mean, the B&W one with the skeleton tattoos.)
A true fan gets the story straight, and anyone who won't go to that much effort is just a casual fan--and there's NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. I admit I don't care as much about, say, Karl Urban as I do my precious Lij, even though I think he's really cute--but I don't try to act like I know all that much about Karl. Bascially, I feel *I* have the right to wear a "Mrs. Wood" t-shirt (if I could find one, anyway) because I know stuff about Elijah. (I've seen almost half the movies he's made and I'm tracking down the rest, I know what the rest are, I know where he was born, I know what films he's currently working on, so on and so forth...) I also feel that wearing something that said "I love Karl Urban" would make me a poser, because yeah, I DO think he's cute, but I don't care enough about him to research him. Not exactly adoration, now is it?
And it applies to people who pose as LotR fans (instead of an actor's fan). Like, say, Kade--she LIKES the LotR movies and she'll talk about them, but she ADMITS that she's not the hugest fan and doesn't try to act like she knows all about it. THAT is a good fan. I hate it when people who know what she knows about LotR try to act like they're loving adorers of all things Tolkien. ("Spell Silmarillion, b****!" Lol.) (Not that Kate hates Tolkien, mind you, she's tried reading the books and hopefull she'll finish them someday, but it's not #1 on her priority list--and that's cool with me.)
Anyway. Enough ranting.
I saw Grandma yesterday, we came over while Aunt Diane and Uncle Norman went to church, ended up bringing our dinner over and eating there. She's doing about the same as last time. (But that's better than a turn for the worse!) Apparently the seizures were what was causing the dry heaves that were plaguing her all the time. They've told her that they won't take her to the hospital anymore because the hospital doesn't know what to do with her, that if they take her anywhere it'll be a nursing home. I know it sounds really cruel, but at the same time, I really think it's making her fight to get better. (And of course if she was suddenly taken up with symptoms we WOULD take her to the hospital, we're not torturers or anything.)
I went to Carissa's for the weekend. (She's the one who picks me up for church.) On Saturday she called and asked if I wanted to come over, since she was having a birthday party and she said I could just stay overnight and they'd take me to church in the morning per usual. And I had nothing to do, and I was gonna get cake, so I went. (You have to understand. Me and Carissa are not close. But I'm nice to her because she drives me to church, and she's nice to everyone because she's sugary. I'd call her a friend. But not a GOOD friend.)
It was all right. It was mostly her family and all, the only people I knew were her and her parents and boyfriend. (Lucky girl. But I'll get to that in a minute.) Not what I'd call a party in the strictest sense (in the strictest sense I've only had like four birthday parties in my life, lol), but not a bad time.
Most of the family left around ten or so, and me and Carissa and Justin watched a movie (She's All That, I'd seen it), and then just talked for, like, forever. He didn't leave until 2 AM. (Which was okay because I was with them the whole time and they were totally kosher.) They don't even kiss. They're THAT kind of couple, which is irritating, sort of. I don't go in for that whole 'courtship' movement.
But anyway. I don't know what it is with Justin, but it's really hard for me to be around him. Not that I can't stand him. I don't have a crush on him, but I keep accidentally saying things and I'm paranoid he or Carissa will misinterpret them as me having a crush on him. I totally don't. I mean, he's cute, but he wants to be a youth pastor and I SO swore that off. I'm not being my mother or putting up with what she puts up with. Not happening.
But I AM jealous of Carissa. Not because of Justin, I don't want Justin. (He's cute enough, but the youth-pastor thing killed any possibilities of me even remotely liking him that way.) I'm jealous because she has a BOYFRIEND. They're so cute together! But it drives me nuts to see him hugging on her because THAT'S what I want--a boy that'll let me hug him and be in love with him and all that jazz. (Yes. I know I'm in love with the idea of being in love. I don't care.) Gah. Anyway.
Happy Single Awareness Day. I'll talk more about that tomorrow when I find out if I'm still Valentine-less or not.
Oooh. I'm irritated. Hobbity just informed me that the Grey Panthers have reopened. What the frick is up with that???
Okay. Long story coming:
I was a member of an LotR-humor board called Elijah's Grey Panthers. (GP's, the GP, whatever. You get the idea.) All was happy and sunny there, jokes abounded, great source for new Lij pictures. It was a good thing.
And then sometime in, like...October, I think...yes. The last days of September, I think it may've been the 30th or 29th, the admins there declared that with 400+ members, the board had lost its close-knit family feeling like it had had originally, so they were scaling back--membership was no longer open and they were cutting back to their original dozen or so members. That was a sad day.
I applied to be let back in, kept checking back to see if they'd heard my plea. One day I found an ezinbox message from HobbityShoeSupply (aka Waffles/Waffley/Hobbity/HSS/she of many names) that basically said she wanted to keep in contact with some of the other "rejects." I ezinboxed her back and was all "OH! YAY! Human contact!" Lol. I reminded her that somewhere on one of the Official GP Messages, we were given permission to go start a new board for ourselves, and making my long story not quite so long, DLBE was born. On October 5th, we co-founded DomLijBilEans: Lord of the Onion Rings, our own spinoff board. It was basically the same board with open membership and only about five members. (We started with, like, five, and have grown to thirteen.)
It's been great! After about a month I didn't even miss GP anymore because we did just as much on our own. I dearly love the DLBE board.
And then today Hobbity emails me and tells me that GP has opened up free membership again.
That leaves us in a quandary--do we leave DLBE open? Do we let people go to both? Do we inquire about maybe moving our threads to the GP board? I mean, when you start something to counteract being thrown out, and then you're let back in...gah.
And we have our own in-jokes at DLBE that the GP crowd won't get. (I ate Waffles!) It's just--I'm very frustrated and confused and I have my email open in another window, debating what to tell Hobbity. Gah. And here back in October I would have rejoiced at this news.
So anyway. I just emailed Hobbity and told her that closing DLBE is NOT an option as far as I'm concerned. But what to do? It's not so much a matter of us being in any kind of danger or whatever, but it's just a matter of ettiquette as anything else.
RANT TWO (mostly copied from one of my posts on the plaza):
You know what irritates me? People who talk/act like they're huge fans (of Lij or Orli or whoever) and then DON'T HAVE THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT. I was talking to a girl at church yesterday and we were all happy because Orli broke up with Kate Bosworth, but then she insisted that the two of them had been engaged (which they never were, that was just a rumor that went around). And she was wearing an "I Love Orlando" ring. That just annoyed the heck out of me.
Now, see, I either look things up for myself or ask for a confirmation, or I pass it on as "I HEARD this, I don't know if it's right." If it's not one of my main guys (like, say, if it's about Viggo or Sean Bean) I'll admit that the bigger fan is more likely to know than I am. It's why I don't like to hang around my acquaintance Kira so much anymore, she talks like she's a huge fan of Orli's but then doesn't know simple things. (She has a pic of Orli where he had some temporary tattoos on, and she insists that they're real and that he covers them with makeup at all his public appearances. Shelly--you know the pic I mean, the B&W one with the skeleton tattoos.)
A true fan gets the story straight, and anyone who won't go to that much effort is just a casual fan--and there's NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. I admit I don't care as much about, say, Karl Urban as I do my precious Lij, even though I think he's really cute--but I don't try to act like I know all that much about Karl. Bascially, I feel *I* have the right to wear a "Mrs. Wood" t-shirt (if I could find one, anyway) because I know stuff about Elijah. (I've seen almost half the movies he's made and I'm tracking down the rest, I know what the rest are, I know where he was born, I know what films he's currently working on, so on and so forth...) I also feel that wearing something that said "I love Karl Urban" would make me a poser, because yeah, I DO think he's cute, but I don't care enough about him to research him. Not exactly adoration, now is it?
And it applies to people who pose as LotR fans (instead of an actor's fan). Like, say, Kade--she LIKES the LotR movies and she'll talk about them, but she ADMITS that she's not the hugest fan and doesn't try to act like she knows all about it. THAT is a good fan. I hate it when people who know what she knows about LotR try to act like they're loving adorers of all things Tolkien. ("Spell Silmarillion, b****!" Lol.) (Not that Kate hates Tolkien, mind you, she's tried reading the books and hopefull she'll finish them someday, but it's not #1 on her priority list--and that's cool with me.)
Anyway. Enough ranting.
I saw Grandma yesterday, we came over while Aunt Diane and Uncle Norman went to church, ended up bringing our dinner over and eating there. She's doing about the same as last time. (But that's better than a turn for the worse!) Apparently the seizures were what was causing the dry heaves that were plaguing her all the time. They've told her that they won't take her to the hospital anymore because the hospital doesn't know what to do with her, that if they take her anywhere it'll be a nursing home. I know it sounds really cruel, but at the same time, I really think it's making her fight to get better. (And of course if she was suddenly taken up with symptoms we WOULD take her to the hospital, we're not torturers or anything.)
I went to Carissa's for the weekend. (She's the one who picks me up for church.) On Saturday she called and asked if I wanted to come over, since she was having a birthday party and she said I could just stay overnight and they'd take me to church in the morning per usual. And I had nothing to do, and I was gonna get cake, so I went. (You have to understand. Me and Carissa are not close. But I'm nice to her because she drives me to church, and she's nice to everyone because she's sugary. I'd call her a friend. But not a GOOD friend.)
It was all right. It was mostly her family and all, the only people I knew were her and her parents and boyfriend. (Lucky girl. But I'll get to that in a minute.) Not what I'd call a party in the strictest sense (in the strictest sense I've only had like four birthday parties in my life, lol), but not a bad time.
Most of the family left around ten or so, and me and Carissa and Justin watched a movie (She's All That, I'd seen it), and then just talked for, like, forever. He didn't leave until 2 AM. (Which was okay because I was with them the whole time and they were totally kosher.) They don't even kiss. They're THAT kind of couple, which is irritating, sort of. I don't go in for that whole 'courtship' movement.
But anyway. I don't know what it is with Justin, but it's really hard for me to be around him. Not that I can't stand him. I don't have a crush on him, but I keep accidentally saying things and I'm paranoid he or Carissa will misinterpret them as me having a crush on him. I totally don't. I mean, he's cute, but he wants to be a youth pastor and I SO swore that off. I'm not being my mother or putting up with what she puts up with. Not happening.
But I AM jealous of Carissa. Not because of Justin, I don't want Justin. (He's cute enough, but the youth-pastor thing killed any possibilities of me even remotely liking him that way.) I'm jealous because she has a BOYFRIEND. They're so cute together! But it drives me nuts to see him hugging on her because THAT'S what I want--a boy that'll let me hug him and be in love with him and all that jazz. (Yes. I know I'm in love with the idea of being in love. I don't care.) Gah. Anyway.
Happy Single Awareness Day. I'll talk more about that tomorrow when I find out if I'm still Valentine-less or not.
