internet anonymity

[ringsandcoffee]

I did a search for my high school on my Myspace page. Ended up finding a bunch of people I know; surprising to me, many guys have Myspace pages or blogs or both. So, I think, very cool, I found people online that aren't on Classmates.com or anywhere else I can find them. I sometimes want to contact people, but I have no idea what I'd say. The few people I still want to be in contact with, I *am* in contact with. At the same time, I wish people would contact me, even if just to say hi and not much else. I debated with myself, and finally put my HS and grad year on my profile. Basically, if anyone wanted to find me, they would be able to figure out from my first name and my grad year. I'm not afraid of stalkers or identity theft or anything like that, but I just have a few reservations about old friends finding me via Myspace or LJ. I mean, who I am shows in what I say on these things, but still, am I ready for everyone to know just how big of a LOTR geek I am? Or to know that I was stuck working at Starbucks for 3 years? Ok, so those are not things to be ashamed of. In fact, that's who I am. But, well, during my last year at Starbucks, when I wished I had a real job and my own place, I didn't tell a lot of people that. I would just mention that I was substitute teaching while I looked for a full time job.

Really, I'm not ashamed of being a LOTR geek. I love that, and I know there are many others like me out there, so that's even better. Geekdom helped me to connect with a really good friend at work. I love all my Starbucks knowledge. I have no regrets about what I've done and where I am now. I feel like a dork at the moment, realizing for a short time I slipped back into HS mode and actually worried about what people think about me. They are who they are, and it shows on their Myspace/LJ/whatever. I am who I am.

Go me.

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[orogenesis11.livejournal.com]

Totally off subject, but...what happened on Lost last week (if you have time to tell me)?

I was SOOOO sad to miss it.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

There was a TON of review of things we already saw. But...new stuff (as much as I can remember):

Locke follows Kate down the hatch, and ends up in Desmond's "lair." While he's poking around, he finds Kate. Desmond sneaks up on them both and asks Locke "Are you him?" Locke attempts to play along but fails when Desmond asks who Kate is. Locke answers questions about who they are and how they got there, and if "anyone has gotten sick" and then ties Kate up and puts her in a closet. Locke managed to slip her a knife so she was able to cut herself free. She finds herself in a large pantry, and helps herself to a candy bar, then climbs into the vent shaft. While crawling along, she sees Jack, but can't talk to him due to the loud music Desmond turned on.

Jack eventually goes down the hatch, setting off some countdown. Desmond makes Locke type The Numbers (holding him at gunpoint still) on that ancient computer, which resets and stops the timer. (My guess is if someone gets into the lair, there's a self destruct funtion) We get back to the confrontation with Jack, which Kate watches from the vent. Nothing new is shown.

Meanwhile, Michael and Sawyer find a piece of the raft to float on. Sawyer was in fact shot in the arm. They go back and forth blaming each other for what happened (raft destroyed, Walt taken, etc). Michael was acting like an idiot (like when he told Locke to keep away from Walt but never explained why) blaming Sawyer for things beyond his control. We also saw flashbacks of Michael's custody battle with Walt's mom. She took him to court to get him to give up all parental rights, so her boyfriend could adopt him. Eventually, when she knew she would lose in court, she convinced Michael to give up (I wanted to kill her).

Um, other random things: a shark terrorized Michael and Sawyer on the raft; Sawyer dug the bullet out of his arm; Michael shot the shark when it went after Sawyer, and in the morning they found they had drifted back to the island. Sawyer commented that the boat the "others" were on was a small craft that had to have come from the island, as it's range and size would not go far on open ocean. When they get back on the shore, Jin comes running out, hands tied, and the only word we can understand is "others"

Preview for this week: the 3 guys trapped in a pit, the woman Jack talked to in the airport lounge is there, and there's some black men. That's all I remember.

[orogenesis11.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks!!! I hope hope hope I get to see it on Wed.

[annebloom188.livejournal.com]

I'm far from being ashamed of loving The Lord of the Rings!
I wear the geekiness on my sleeve each and every single day and will always do so.
And I shall forever bore others on the fascination that only I and few others understand.
And I shall forever argue my way with Elvish words to those who don't think the books and movies were all that...
if only I spoke Elvish that is. ;)

Should we be ashamed?

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Should we be ashamed?

No, I'm not ashamed of that. Love my geekiness. I was actually thinking about this post today, and it's other things I write that worry me. Like, personal stuff or deep thoughts or ramblings. I mean, it's weird. Anything I post on here, I want people on my flist to read. Even though I haven't met most of you, I still trust you. However, if people that I wasn't friends with back in high school read some of the things I have posted, that was what worried me.

Bah, I guess it doesn't really matter anyway. A lot of them have their own blogs and/or myspace pages with their own bizarre contents.