hmm

Nanowrimo is causing me to not go out at all. I sit in front of my computer all day and night. So I've IM'ed with something like 30 people in the past three days, but I've talked to no one outside of work.

It's weird!

some of my friends are apparently much freakier than I am

"We did some crazy stuff last night."

"Like what?"

"Freaky stuff."

"Were you cutting each other?"

"No! [looks away in thought] That's interesting though."

"Okay, then what kind of stuff?"

"For example, I actually threw up at one point during it."

"What?? [shocked pause] How did he react when that happened?"

"I don't think he noticed."

"What???? What on earth were you doing?"

"I'm telling you, crazy stuff."

hehe

IM with my guy friend "Randy".

niniane: a lot of guys start going to the gym more when they start dating a girl
randy: they do???
randy: i've been pretty good about going to the gym...but that's cause i consider myself single
randy: but once i meet a girl, this gym nonsense can stop

tip to headhunters

If you are trying to headhunt two people who work at the same company and went to the same 900-student university together, perhaps you should send slight variations of the email! They might talk to each other, and laugh at how tacky it is to send out the exact same email to every person.

A worse example happened at Caltech though, when my friend John received an email from the Oracle recruiter which was addressed "Dear Niniane".