I'm starting to wonder if the internet is ruining my people skills. I find I'm doing more online via email and instant messaging than I used to. And I tend to go that route for communicating with people rather than just picking up the phone and making a call. I still like hanging out with people and am making tons of plans and all. But I set up those plans through email. And when I try to catch up with people I just write them an email rather than picking up the phone.
Now that can be handy. It's easier to email a bunch of folks for group plans than it is to get them all on the phone. And if I want to catch up with someone at 3AM, an email is certainly more considerate. But, that's not always the case. Sometimes I just want to grab dinner with one friend. Or catch up with someone during a slow day at work or on a Sunday afternoon. And then, the phone might make more sense.
I think I do like the multitasking aspect of it. When I'm chatting online or emailing I can do lots of other things. But when I do that on the phone I find I can't concentrate on the call or the other tasks as well. Weird. I think I might want to work on that. I really don't want to be heading down a slippery slope towards complete recluse.
Though I haven't been a recluse this weekend. Friday was dinner with Lovey, Muppet, Mr. Muppet, Muffy, Steph and even Monkey Man bothered to join us. We were trying for Otto, but the wait was an hour and a half and we couldn't get a table for wine and cheese ahead of time. With a group of six, soon to be seven, that's not a fun time. We were crammed around a pillar for about 15 minutes when we decided to say screw it and head towards an Indian place in the 'hood. And got sidetracked by a Pizzeria Uno. We're all so very classy. But onion petals, beer and pizza worked out pretty well and I had a good time. And some very random conversation. Which I will not repeat here. So I can try to stop the stem of inappropriate searches leading people here. So, then Muffy, Steph and I headed to Maggie's Birthday/Go Red Sox party in the slope. I only went for the birthday portion as I blame this Red Sox win for everything bad in life since that day.
It was okay. I think I was a little too tired to have a blast. And I got sucked into some conversations that were not Happy Manda Making. But Maggie's cat is adorable and sweet and fuzzy and soft and I went off to play with her for a bit. And I finally saw Maggie's place and caught up with her a little. I finally headed out about 2 or so with M &S.
Sadly I had to get up before 9AM on Saturday for my Fresh Direct delivery. Ugh. I would've gone for a later time, but there were afternoon plans. Vadar's birthday is Wednesday and she had a birthday lunch on Saturday. Which was excellent . There was a ton of lunch stuff at her place and then about six hours of Arrested Development episodes. She and Taylor are obsessed with the show and each got the DVD the day it was released. She got me a copy as well as an early Christmas present. Which is awesome. It really is a fabulous show and Muff and Steph had never seen it. I tried explaining some of it to Muffy once while I was wearing my Annyong Hermano shirt and I just didn't do it justice. The fact that I kept cracking up every other sentence couldn't've helped either. Anyway, they got to see it for the first time and now they feel the love. Oh yeah, baby. I hope that the show gets better ratings this season. It's oh so good. Anyway, on top of the awesome TV there were chips and sandwiches and beer and wine and soda and banana splits and fun people and a good time was had by all. I think. Certainly by me.
"Space Cowboy" by 'NSync just came up on my iTunes. Heh. I have no taste in anything. Ooooh, now the Solid Gold theme song. Oh yeah.
Now I'm just fussing around my apartment alternating spurts of super productivity with some ass sitting and kitty loving. I'm such a rock star. I actually did a little backyard work. Though I need to do more. The ivy on one fence is covering part of the walkway and easing into the yard. And the roses have gone mad. With the recent rain and current warm weather I'm sure. I think that's a project for next weekend or the following. I'd rather the ivy be a little less leafy before I attack it. Does Ivy get less leafy in the winter? I'm useless with my yard.
Anyway, gotta go rockout to my ELO/Xanadu soundtrack. Like the stud I am. And purchase my America Is Scary T-shirt.
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