I wish I’d had all this photocopying to do last Wednesday, when I got drenched in the rain on my way to work and spent the day shivering and damp. (The copy room is a good five or ten degrees warmer than the rest of the floor.)
Like, I think, a lot of people, I pretty much gave up on Meetup.com around the time they started imposing monthly fees for group organizers. (With options like craigslist and Yahoo Groups available for free, I honestly don’t know what they were thinking.) It wasn’t a difficult decision, and it’s not like I’d had any luck actually meeting people there — Long Island being somewhat under-represented. I just closed the one or two groups that I’d tried without success to organize, and I didn’t look back.
Except, I didn’t completely leave. I still get occasional e-mail alerts from Meetup, letting me know that such-and-such a group is meeting, or that so-and-so has joined. And it occurs to me that they’re either running increasingly low on members in my immediate area — at $19.95 a month, I wouldn’t be surprised — or somebody there needs a quick geography lesson
Because New York and New Jersey? Different places.
I’m screwing around with the blog template, mostly with the colors above and in the sidebar. You may also notice the new image up top (borrowed from here). Feel free to tell me if any of it looks, y’know, stupid.
It doesn’t take a lot for me to remember why I love Mutts:
Earl: Mooch, I wish we had booksmarts.
Mooch: Ha! I have bookshmarts! I shlept on a dictionary last night and my back is killing me!
From the Sci-Fi Wire:
Emmanuelle Vaugier, who stars in the SCI FI Channel’s upcoming two-hour pilot Painkiller Jane, told SCI FI Wire that she viewed her character, Jane Browning, and her alter ego, Painkiller Jane, as variations on the same character.
Well, gee, I hope so. That’s sort of the definition of alter ego.