2 posts tagged “twitter”

COME ON, BRAIN!  WAKE UP!  If we do what needs to be done today, we'll be sitting pretty for tomorrow's meeting.  *SLAP* WAKE UP!!!

Twitter is vexing me.  I still don't know what I have to say that would be worth twittering, and with only two tweets out there, I'm collecting more camera whores, skanks and spammers than I have real friends following me.  I'm not sure if it's even worth the trouble to keep blocking these people, but I HATE that they're there.  I wish that when you blocked someone, they'd drop from your list of followers.  I've heard it said that with twitter, like with almost everything in life, you get out of it what you put into it.  Fair enough.  I just don't know what to put into it.  I'm not a talker.  Blogging is one thing: I see it mostly as talking to myself.  Tweeting feels more like shouting at the world, ...and I got nothin'.  I am enjoying following Eddie Izzard, Wil Wheaton, Nathan Fillion and Neil Gaiman, but even then, catching up on tweets when I've been away for a few hours feels like such a timesuck.  I'm thinking this is one service that's just not for me, but I'm going to ride it out a while. Maybe something will eventually click.

It's cold this morning.  I have on socks, pants, and a sweatshirt, and I've gone back to hot coffee.  It's weird for July.  My brain knows it's July, but I keep slipping into September.

Still no rain.  I hope we get some.  My garden isn't terribly dry, but I'm sure it would still like some rain.

Speaking of my garden, I have flowers on my peas and tomatoes, the zucchini is ready to flower, and I've seen one huge bloom on one of the pumpkin vines growing beside the compost pile.  The lettuce is growing like crazy.  I pull some every day, and the lettuce bed still looks packed solid.

I'm excited for the long weekend.  I've so much I want to do, and I'm really looking forward to the fireworks.  That's one of my favorite events of the year, one of our favorite traditions.

Ok, so I'm starting to feel some enthusiasm for *something*.  I must be waking up finally.  Time to get some work done.

My ear and the left side of my head still hurt like crazy.  Now I'm getting those jolts of stabbing pain too.  Fun.  Stupid allergies!

I'm twittering.  That is to say, I've created an account.  I'm currently thinking I'll only be following at the website, since my phone is off 99% of the time and I like it that way, but I may some day opt to tweet *shudder* from my phone or my kindle.

I gave in because of Caitlin Kiernan first.  She held out against twitter with all the confusion and contempt that I had for it.  And then recently she opened an account seemingly out of the blue and started twittering her newest book, one sentence a day.  I have the book on pre-order, but I still wanted those sentences ASAP!

So I was thinking that maybe I should give in too.  Not only was I wanting to follow one of my favorite authors, but one of my nearest and dearest is about to have a baby, and I'm way too many miles away from her.  She twitters, and I'd long ago considered that I might sign up when her due date got closer so I could get the baby info ASAP.

Still, I procrastinated.  And then Algernon admitted to twitting this morning, and I thought, "Everyone really is doing it."

I'm really starting to feel like I'm missing out on a modern phenomenon.  I held out against LJ at first too, and MySpace.  ...I was right about MySpace though.  I'll be deleting that soon here.

So there I am now.  Will I use it?  Probably.  Often?  Maybe.  *shrug*  Like I said, I don't keep my cell phone on, but then again, since I don't use my phone, I have a ton of time banked up on it that I could use.  I probably won't be following too many people because I don't need another major distraction, but again, who knows?  I'm currently planning on using it first as a micro-blog, for big thoughts and things that can be shared in few words, and secondly to extend outing invitations to local friends and hopefully get more quality time with my peeps while still being able to make spontaneous plans.

So, yeah.  Twitter.  Seriously.  I'm still skeptical, but we'll see how this goes.

When I was creating my account, it told me my name was too long.  My *legal name*.  HA!  I KNOW!!!  :)

AGirlofGlass

Don't feel obligated, seriously, but there it is if you wanted to know.