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[katallison]

Sometimes I have wished that LJ would develop a functionality that would let you bookmark a particular point in your friendslist when you log off -- planting a temporal stake, metaphorically speaking -- and then, when you return, go to that point and catch up on posts in actual, rather than reverse, chronological order.

And yet, that would cheat me of such strange temporal/topical loops as the Great Frienditto Imbroglio, which apparently appeared, flared to fever pitch, and has now subsided to steady burn state, all in the eleven hours between my departure for work this morning and my return from the gym this evening. I have a perverse love for stumbling on such things in mid-uproar, and then backtracking through everyone's posts looking for Entry Zero.

(And are there *really* people in the world half-witted enough to go around blithely giving out their LJ password out to strangers? Mercy.)

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[theseashore.livejournal.com]

Hi Kat! I ran across your journal from a link from Anna's, I think? I've been meaning to say hello for awhile. Was thrilled that you still have your XF stuff up on your page. (Motel 3:00 still breaks me seven years later...sigh.)

Did you actually find post zero?

"And are there *really* people in the world half-witted enough to go around blithely giving out their LJ password out to strangers?"

*shakes head in wonder* I'm sure the gene pool police will be around for them soon enough. *shakes head more*

gene pool police - good term

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I call those kinds of police by that quaint and unpopular phrase, "the laws of physics".
I just wish people wouldn't ask to be yanked up short by those kinda police quite so often while *I'm driving near them.*
And yes, there really are people that trusting, naive, dim, and clueless.
But you knew that...
(Cue the blank bovine stare, please.)
After the kind of Friday I had at work, I'm not merely certain of that. I'm sure that everything silly bit of funny behavior that Terry Pratchett ever wrote about will be done by somebody, at some point, right in front of me.
(No, we don't need drooling, too. Faulkner-style rural staring is plenty, thank you.)
Right now, I'm certain that there's people out there who will do ten unlikely things before breakfast, and look at you blankly when you point out that any one of such foolishnesses will lead to two dozen truly unlikely things happening to them before dinner. And probably evil ones.
"Oh, really?"
(Okay, that's enough footage of the staring. Really. Stop now, or I'll scream. And don't you hate it when you can't stop, once you got started?)
But enough personal drama.
Deep breaths.
Boring=good.

Re: gene pool police - good term

[theseashore.livejournal.com]

*Grins* I feel your pain. The gene pool police thing isn't mine, really. I saw someone with a button that said that once. A police officer with a whistle in his mouth, holding up a hand as if to say, Stop! And it said: Gene Pool Police; You, out!