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SO I LEFT CLASS EARLY TODAY TO DRIVE MY DAD TO THE DMV, only to discover (in an ironic twist, seeing as I had his car) he was gone. I called him and he said something about "having two meetings" and he's going tomorrow instead, but he didn't want to bother me in class. WHICH, WHATEVER, but isn't telling your daughter not to come get you so she doesn't ditch her next class for no reason (especially after last week, OH GOD) what text messaging was INVENTED FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE? >:(
WHATEVER, WORLD, I AM GOING TO BE A STUDENT-DELINQUENT AND SIT HERE AND WATCH LAST NIGHT'S FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
Idk if you remember my purse dilemma, but I ended up buying the blue one from the place and about a week ago I got the package, and inside was NOT, in fact, a strawberry purse, but the ugliest little faux-leather crocodile wallet I have EVER seen in my life. I emailed them about exchanging the thing I got for the thing I bought, but I think the guy misunderstood me, because he was all "well we can process your return for AMICI ACCESSORIES STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE and refund you and then you can buy a new purse!" BUT I DO NOT WANT A NEW PURSE, I want to be free of ugly crocodile wallet, and I want the purse I bought. YOU FUCKED UP, AND YOU SHOULD FIX IT. I really just need to call them, but I keep remembering at odd hours :( Except for now, when it is actually the middle of the day. I have no idea why I am writing a whiny LJ entry instead of calling them right now.
But I actually didn't decide to post so I could be fussy, I wanted to make a poll about the pimping of new fandoms (and pretend, for the sake of argument, that the new fandom in question is not something you have seen everywhere already and have whatever preconcieved notions about-- it is new, relatively fresh, and you do not):
[Poll #1300985]
WHATEVER, WORLD, I AM GOING TO BE A STUDENT-DELINQUENT AND SIT HERE AND WATCH LAST NIGHT'S FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
Idk if you remember my purse dilemma, but I ended up buying the blue one from the place and about a week ago I got the package, and inside was NOT, in fact, a strawberry purse, but the ugliest little faux-leather crocodile wallet I have EVER seen in my life. I emailed them about exchanging the thing I got for the thing I bought, but I think the guy misunderstood me, because he was all "well we can process your return for AMICI ACCESSORIES STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE and refund you and then you can buy a new purse!" BUT I DO NOT WANT A NEW PURSE, I want to be free of ugly crocodile wallet, and I want the purse I bought. YOU FUCKED UP, AND YOU SHOULD FIX IT. I really just need to call them, but I keep remembering at odd hours :( Except for now, when it is actually the middle of the day. I have no idea why I am writing a whiny LJ entry instead of calling them right now.
But I actually didn't decide to post so I could be fussy, I wanted to make a poll about the pimping of new fandoms (and pretend, for the sake of argument, that the new fandom in question is not something you have seen everywhere already and have whatever preconcieved notions about-- it is new, relatively fresh, and you do not):
[Poll #1300985]
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Date: 2008-11-20 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:17 pm (UTC)i'm not sure this holds for other poeple.
also that fucking sucks about class, i'm sorry.
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:36 pm (UTC)by the way, have you seen last night's fnl yet? i just finished it and TEARS.
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 08:38 pm (UTC)And regarding class: my life is very difficult, you know.
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:54 pm (UTC)But I'm totally ambivalent about the whole idea of pimping shows, anyway. I will certainly say good things about a show or recommend it, but past a certain point, if someone doesn't want to watch a show I think is wonderful, then I can't sit down and hold their eyelids open. ALSO, I can get a little snobbish about it: for instance, I may talk about XF incessantly, but I never try to make people watch it, because I feel like, if you are awesome enough to deserve that show, you can find it on your own.
Wow, I'm really cranky about these things, apparently!
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Date: 2008-11-20 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 09:09 pm (UTC)ALSO, I can get a little snobbish about it: for instance, I may talk about XF incessantly, but I never try to make people watch it, because I feel like, if you are awesome enough to deserve that show, you can find it on your own.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:11 pm (UTC)Basically The X-Files has ruined me for all TV. I have had a few flings -- The West Wing, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, The Office, but they were just for fun. And they were over in a few months, and I either didn't get involved in fandom, or didn't like much of what I saw of it.
Except for Spaced! Spaced rocks.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:15 pm (UTC)There is definitely something about XF that makes it something of a crown jewel fandom, though.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:16 pm (UTC)One of my biggest pet peeves EVER is when someone tries to force a show on me. There is a difference between enthusiasm and obnoxious overhype. I don't think everyone realizes that.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:21 pm (UTC)in the end I'm much more likely to scroll past something I'm not familiar with. BECAUSE I AM A CRANKY STICK IN THE MUD.
ME TOO. Scroll, scroll, scroll, while I take one moment to get cranky about it. I apparently hate other people's happiness and joy if it does not involve me.
Sometimes, when I am incredibly cranky, I get upset when people who DO NOT deserve it do happen to find it.
Okay, this is not even a "sometimes" thing. There should be a test people have to take or something before they're allowed to start watching it. I'm so protective of it.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 09:24 pm (UTC)What weirdly bothers me more is something that becomes like the hot new thing. If I feel like everyone on my flist just started watching something, I like to be a rebel and refuse to watch it. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME, I DON'T KNOW. It's kind of like, so many people love that show, it doesn't need my love on top of it! But usually when I think like that, I'm missing out. (I DID THAT WITH FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.)
ANYHOW! Pretty much anything get me to watch a show, but it really depends on my mood. I'm open to most things (LULZ, EXCEPT NEVER SUPERNATURAL, sorry dudes) but most of the time, I don't get around to watching things because I'm either too busy or just plain lazy. Or I just get way too comfortable in my little TV niche. See: The West Wing. Which I know I'll love and have been meaning to watch for ages, but still haven't!
MEH. WHATEVA!
PS: I think my answers actually explain why people never start watching things I suggest to them or ask them to! D: D: THIS MAKES ME SAD.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:26 pm (UTC)THEY MUST NOT, OR THEY WOULD STOP ALREADY.
But the more I think about it, the more I realize how TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE the whole thing is. A lot of the time it will take a lot more than a picspam to make me want to watch something, because I skip them and I'm constantly forming weird opinions about things I don't watch in my head, but on the other hand, do you remember last winter and
But yeah, there's nothing more off-putting than feeling like some show is being shoved down your throat.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:34 pm (UTC)