Don't you hate it when people tell you they have some really exciting news, but they're not allowed to tell you what it is?
So do I.
Next week, I am happy to be participating in an online class discussion with a group of MFA students at Western Connecticut University. This will be really cool, and I'm certain the students are going to be wayyyyy smarter than me.
By the way... Students of Western Connecticut University: I am a writer, not a typist. This is perhaps the singular reason why I do not participate in chats, twitchats, whatever those things are -- I obsess over words on screens, punctuation, and such.... and this makes me agonizingly slow in doing these things.
Just saying.
I suppose they're all going to think I'm drunk or on heroin.
Again.
It's also why I don't text message. Well, if I do, I'm the guy who actually spells out EVERYTHING, uses upper- and lower-case letters and... yes, punctuates, too (but I don't think I've ever used an exclamation point in a text message).
I mean, what's the point in using an exclamation point in a text? Text has to be the least-emotional form of communication on the planet.
Mr. Spock would probably be a good texter.
WTF, Captain Kirk? :/
LOL
See? That does nothing for me.
I also never use emoticons.
So Western Conn, prepare yourselves.
3 comments:
I hate texting too. Then again with my primitive phone it's really slow. I tried a TwitChat once and it stunk. It's like if you tried to hold a literary discussion in a New York subway station during rush hour. Just a bunch of overlapping noise. Never again!
LoL!
I love to text (with spell check and proper use of caps) and I LOVE(!) exclamation points!!!! bwahahaha ;)
Your dark books are a nice opposite for me - I'm not sure if "nice" is the best word choice. I'm sure with your creative word skill you can come up with something more colorful than nice.
Never heard of TwitChat but then again I don't Twitter.
connie
I could easily send you all of our addresses so you could quickly FedEx us all a combination of booze and heroine, thereby leveling the playing field.
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