So much for savin’ it for your mama!
So apparently people read this thing. And by “people” I mean “law school people.” Who knew! I sort of feel like it’s common courtesy to give some sort of indication if you’re reading someone’s blog that you know in real life… I don’t think you need to wear a sign that says “I READ PETEHOLIDAY.COM” (though if you want a t-shirt to that effect, let me know) but… you know… something…
Commenting, linking to the blog (either in post or sidebar), or other things are more than sufficient. But anyway, for all of you lurkers out there… HI! Feel free to… umm… keep lurking, if you want to.
Anyway, be sure to check out the update to my last post.
Some people hate drama… I have my theories about why some people are almost militantly anti-drama (is that really any better than being dramatic?) but here’s one way a classmate of mine is trying to avoid it.
What I think is interesting about that post is the unspoken assertion that she knows why people are doing things. She writes: “It might not bother me that much except that these bloggers are writing with the hope that the person they’re writing about reads it and with the intention of causing more drama.”
This might just be projection, and she may or may not be talking about my last post, but that’s honestly not why I write about the drama. I write about it because, frankly, my friends and other readers find it interesting. They want to know what’s going on in my life and what I think about it.
The other side benefit to putting drama on blogs is that it gets the accusations out there in the open. It takes a certain something to post something about someone else on your blog when your name is attached. Your name is then attached to your post and you have to be able to stand behind it. It’s a little different than just bitching to your friends at your locker, anyone can come back to the post and say “Now wait a minute, that’s not true” and you have to be able to handle that. It gets it out in the open, which is one thing that petty drama won’t tolerate so, in terms of drama, it separates the wheat from the chaff.
But anyway… I guess my point is that one should be careful when assuming one knows the motives of others.
October 30th, 2005 at 8:58 pm
I want a shirt like that. :o] That would be sweet. I’d wear to school all the time. =-P
October 30th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
I’m sorry, Pete. You are sadly mistaken. I, nor any of your other friends, care what’s going on in your life or what you think about it.
Oh…and about giving some indication that you’re reading someone’s blog…who was it that read my blog for months before ever talking to me? Oh wait, WAIT…that was you.
October 30th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
Damn pete Busted. OK so I may be reading too much into it but doesn’t she seem to have this “better than thou” air to her post? And if you miss that subtlety it does seem apparant in her self portrait of being among the clouds having to jump down to the commoners. Again maybe I’m reading to much into it.
Regarding drama. Have you noticed that there are some people who have to have drama. I’ve experienced it here in Iraq. When there is absolutely nothing going on it seems the same people in my site team start shit. They get drunk and pass out in front of a brigade HQ building or get caught doing stupid things that you know they are smart enough to get away with. It seems that these people feed off of drama and when there is none around they must make their own.
October 30th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
FYI I am talking about the Seattle U student not KimHo.
October 30th, 2005 at 11:57 pm
Kim: Um, yeah, but I didn’t know you, did I? Nope. Sure didn’t.
October 31st, 2005 at 3:34 pm
You knew OF me…you saw me every two weeks when you came to class.
So close enough. Stalker.
October 31st, 2005 at 3:36 pm
Yes, but don’t you know OF everyone whose blog or LJ you read? So if we follow the “know of” rule, it means you have to notify the owner of every blog you read, which is ridiculous, because it’s only weird if you know the person… and I didn’t know you.
October 31st, 2005 at 9:48 pm
I for one, love to hear what’s going on, especially drama! so kudos for the drama…also, I want a shirt too!
November 1st, 2005 at 11:33 pm
I wrote in my blog that I was going to break up with my boyfriend before I actually did and then he found it. I’ve learned to shut the fuck up.
I also find it pathetic that you feel you must link others blogs and then make fun of them for the way they choose to live their lives. Law school?! HA! You all should be sent back to kindergarten where we learned not to talk shit behind other people’s backs. I hope to never be in a situation where I am forced to hire a lawyer from Indiana Bloomington.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:37 pm
I’ve learned to shut the fuck up.
It looks as though you haven’t learned that, actually.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:54 pm
Further, Vicki, is it fun for you to criticize people who are in a social setting you couldn’t even begin to understand, spending 8-12 hours a day at school, and watching their lives effectively revolve around class?
And all this from your lofty intellectual perch at Greenriver Community College… how full your life seems to be!
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:11 am
Green River is two words fucktard.
And for your info I’m perfectly happy with my life.
I really don’t have a problem with what you’re doing here, you just seem to be so happy about sucking other people in.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:42 am
You’re back? Really? Why?
My sincerest apologies for not knowing the exact formatting of the name of a community college 1,000 miles from here. Clearly that should be high on my list of priorities.
Also: who have I sucked in (aside from you, apparently), and what makes you think I had any intention of doing it?
Besides, people of even average intelligence don’t get “sucked in” — they choose to do things.
But nobody has been sucked in, and I was just pointing out that one of my classmates seems to think she knows what everyone is thinking, when she clearly does not.
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Wow. I can’t believe this is still going on. Some people (and I’m not referring to Pete) don’t know when to let go.
Okay, Pete says “one should be careful when assuming one knows the motives of others.” And yet even though he acknowledges “she may or may not be talking about my last post,” he assumes I am and defends his position. In fact, I hadn’t read his post before I posted mine; I read it immediately afterward. So maybe Pete’s guilty of the same thing that he’s accusing me of?
My post was an immediate reaction out of frustration. Everyone is entitled to their opinions - I’m not trying to talk down to anyone. Can we just leave it at that and move on with our lives?
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:17 pm
I wasn’t defending, I was offering an example to counter your generalization. Indeed you were talking about me regardless of whether you had me in mind or not. Writing in general terms leads to those unintended consequences.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions and frustrations… even those concealed behind a “Friends Only” livejournal post. Right, Nicole?
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Absolutely.