only sleeping

Listening to: Escape on the Pig- Keven Manthei
Drinking: 3rd cup of chai
Eating: Hershys kisses with almonds

Lots of weird shit happening lately. Strange and unusual occurance number one? My coffee addiction seems to be waning, in favor of *gasp* chai. Since December, I've been drinking ungodly amounts of the stuff...which, you know, I *have* to do, since it doesn't have quite as much caffiene as coffee. Heh. I will use any excuse to help justify a new addiction...

Strange and unusual occurance number two? Well really, it's not so strange and unusual, but it definately falls under the heading of 'weird shit'. Seems like a couple of players were outed recently, at SOI- and I say, hey, GOOD. There's nothing that I hate more than finding some vague post on the cork about someone who's done someone else (or lots of someone elses) wrong, including a laundry list of all their past misdeeds...and no name. That means the rest of us dolts that are in the dark know there's a player roaming around, someone who likes fucking with people's heads, but we don't know *who* to look for. Might seem trivial, but you know, when you're as paranoid as I am...(I tend to look at everyone I meet, as a potential mindfucker) this is Not Good.

People always shriek "who, who! tell me who it is so I know who to avoid in the future!" The person who posted the expose in the first place usually comes in, smiling blandly, saying that no, they will not expose this persons name, because they are Good, Kind, and Upstanding...and even though they're doing nothing but making people speculate and fuel their suspicions, they will not stoop so low as to name names.

That, to me, is bullshit.

If you want to help people...if you want to *warn* people...then post what you know (only the facts, ma'am), and *tell* their bloody name. Yes, you'll probably take a few hits from people who think you're violating some rule or another...(SOI rules state that no Real Time information is to be given out without the other person's consent. They say nothing about naming a handle, or a screen name)...but again, you're supposed to be HELPING, right?

It's bizarre. Making people paranoid and suspicious is NOT helping.

To make a very long story short, recently it was discovered that two "lesbians" at SOI, were actually not real, and played by a man. Now, I had seen one of the ladies in question around quite a few times, and her posting style always struck me as that of a male who was pretending. (can we say cyber junkie? I thought so) People were not too terribly suprised to find this out, and most everyone thought it was rather refreshing that someone was *named*, instead of making a post filled with wild speculation and vague accusations.

The man playing these two ladies stole pictures off of the internet to use as "himself"...with me so far? Here comes the strange and unusual. A few dolts actually thought the women in the pictures were in on the scam. I mean, forget the fact that there are two people out there who had their pictures stolen by some depraved freak...they MUST have been in on it, right?? Discussion went on and on about how one of the women looked like a man (??), so it all made sense that it was really a guy, all along. I felt like wading into the crap so I could knock a few people over the heads with a clue or two...but I was good, and stayed out of it. (for the record, the woman in question did NOT look like a man...she was rather pretty) It just ticks me off, and makes me realize that every idiot under the sun is *not* confined to AOL.

Weirdness.

Time for me to move back to Word, where a whole different world of Strange and Unusual is waiting for me.