Chloe - LOL. By no means am I that mean off-line, I'm just much more rampant with my cynicism and sarcasm. It's probably because when I am like that in real-life, people know it's a joke because I'm a really a nice person, but sarcasm and cynicism don't really translate well on the net.
Hey everyone! I know I kind of "fell off the face of the earth" (as Lexi put it) this summer, but I'm back now
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms
I'm also more sarcastic in person, because like Connie said, sarcasm doesn't really translate well online.
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -Gilda Radner
Count me in with the "more sarcastic in person" camp. I tend to be more comfortable letting that side of me come through when I can be reasonably sure it won't be misinterpreted.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms
I'm pretty much sarcastic all the time. It's only caused a couple of misunderstandings on this board because most of the people I talk to here already know I'm hardly ever serious.
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -Gilda Radner
Chloe - It's so weird that the tickets went on sale today because from this article, http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=4600, it seems to imply that "individual tickets [would] be on sale approximately two weeks prior to each performance." Maybe the person writing the article was misinformed or I just interpreted it incorrectly. Thank goodness a fan was able to check this morning and tell me about it.
The other side of the coin in the huge information explosion on the internet is the equal opportunity for misinformation to spread. It's so easy to put things out there, and people don't seem to be taking the same kind of precautions to make sure the information is correct as they might have in the past, before you could correct it with a couple of keystrokes. (I'm referring to whoever wrote the article you linked, Connie, not you. You're very good about checking things.)
Has anyone else noticed how difficult it is to proofread something you've written in one of these message boxes? I don't know how many times I've gone back to correct a typo. It's the same with material I print out. Only after I've expended the time and paper do I see those little mistakes that mean I ihave to print it out all over again.
I've been going through part ten of the thread because I'm making myself a new desktop collage. It's been so fun to read all the wacky conversations. & all the pictures Amber posted of her food
I start school tomorrow!
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -Gilda Radner
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