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JetBlue coming to Pgh!

Yay! Finally!!

2 things about pittsburgh...

1) I went in to a post office today for the first time. It was amazing. there was no bullet-proof glass separating the patrons from the postal workers!!! It was a nice long counter where you could interact with the teller without speaking into a microphone and having to alternate putting the sides of the glass cage where the package goes.

...I just realized that my bank also doesn't have crazy glass cages for the tellers!

2) Living in NYC for the last 2 years, I was very fortunate to be spared driving. No one needs a car in NYC. Now that I'm in Pgh, and have to drive around, I've remembered how many horrific drivers there are in the world. The major problem Pgh drivers have is they don't understand the concept of "lanes." They think they can just drive down the middle of any road, whether there's traffic or not. Sometimes I want to honk at them and yell "PICK A FUCKING LANE!" but I have (so far) been able to control myself. It's not easy.

Orkut is dead.

First off, I'm obsessed with online communities - my profile, others' profiles, how many friends I have, what groups I join, etc... HELP!

2 weekends ago I joined MySpace. I obsessed over my profile, and found some old friends. I still haven't gotten Alex to put up a picture. I'm trying.

This past weekend I joined Orkut. The online community that requires an invitation to join. This of course inhibits its growth and popularity, but I think that's what they're going for. Keep out the spammers and all that, not that it works. There's plenty of spammers there. Browsing the groups and members, I noticed that there was a fairly large Brazilian base. I suppose that's not too strange. Then I noticed that ALL news bulletins from Orkut, and almost all groups have portugese descriptions. So today I ran across this! Almost 73% of the members are Brazilian! (And only 11% are from the US, mostly from CA - I assume Google employees.)

I found a few people I know on there, but their profiles look abandoned. I wanted to join the Cornell Jewish Students/Alumni group, but their last post was in 2004! The other groups I joined have a lot of 1 message threads (if you can call them that)... someone will post a question/discussion topic, and no one will ever respond. Pretty sad. I'm sure it's more lively in the Brazilian groups.

So I think I'll pass on Orkut. I'll keep my profile up, and check on my groups occasionally, but until more people show up there, it's really pointless.

gripe - IM etiquette

If you are at work, and would be annoyed/embarrassed/reprimanded if you get an instant message, then don't sign on! If you are logged in to a messaging service, you are stating your openness to receiving IMs. It is not the sender's responsibility to intuit whether you are currently in a meeting, left your desk for lunch, or are in the middle of a presentation. If you need to check if someone is online without actually chatting, learn how to "ghost."

It is the sender's responsibility to be appropriate with their IMs until they are certain that "the coast is clear." So please don't send an obscenity in your first message. And don’t say anything embarrassing about someone’s roommate/boyfriend/colleague/sibling if there is a possibility they may be nearby, unless it is your intent to be completely rude and possibly start an argument.

That's my PSA for the day.

hmm...

I'm debating (with myself) whether I should undertake the tedious task of moving all my old LJ posts to Blogspot. I have entries going back to January 2001. It would also be nice to have all my posts in one place. There's no easy way to port the posts over, so I'd have to copy them over manually (and backdate them). Is it worth the effort? Am I bored enough? Do I have the time?

hmm...

edit: I've started doing it.. we'll see how long it lasts. My appologies to anyone using RSS reader. You may see a high volume of very old posts.

edit2: 2001 is now moved. It's really fun to read my old posts. Some of them are quite funny.

:D!!!

Dear Anna,

I am writing to offer you an interview for the Genetic Counseling graduate program at the University of Pittsburgh. ....

came in today at 4:28 pm! YAY!

Now comes the hard part... the interview :\

online community whore

So today I joined yet another online community (MySpace) in an effort to meet people. I've been a member of Friendster for a long time, but that's been pretty useless. Anywho, as I was joining, I realized just how many places I've joined throughout the years. It's hard to keep track of all of them. So here's my list (in no particular order):

• MySpace (joined today, making the profile will allow me to BS a lot of time at work!)
• k3Space aka "heart space" (a new community for couples, joined yesterday)
• Friendster (been a member for a long time... never really used it for much)
  
• Yahoo! (made myself a very cute looking avatar)
  
• Blogger (currently active blog)
  
• LiveJournal (I've pretty much given up on LJ, but I still have to download all my old posts)
• LinkedIn (haven't really gotten much use out of this either)
  
• considering joining: Hashkafah

If I remember any others, I'll update.

• edit 3/18: just joined Orkut
• edit 5/08: joined SparkPeople
  
• edit 5/08: joined another community/blog site [unnamed]
  
• edit 6/12: joined google pages
  
• edit 8/23: joined Flickr
• edit 9/13: not to mention I now have several MySpace accounts
  

I want that!!

dna 11

one day...

down in the dumps

I have no friends (locally). This is an everyday fact of life, but every once in a while it hits me, hard. Of course this isn't a unique time in my life, I've often gone through periods of not having friends (lots of school switching when I was younger), but at least at all those previous times I was in constant contact with lots of different people. So even if I wasn't "friends" with any of them, I was forced into social situations.

My inability to make friends is a large reason why I hated Cornell for the first semester. Everyone around me had formed cliques, and even had cute little names for the cliques (and each other). They had designated group activities (tv watching, lunch, movie night, fancy dinner night, etc...) I wasn't doing well in classes and I had no one to talk to. If my grades had been better, I would've transferred to a different school, but given that they weren't so stellar, anywhere I went would've been a step down academically, so I had no choice but to stick with Cornell. Fortunately, things ended up working out, but there were lots of rough times.

I'm not at all outgoing. Making friends is very difficult for me. I really don't put any "effort" into finding friends. I don't go to bars or clubs or social events for the sake of meeting people. In fact, I hate going to such events unless I already know people there, which creates a vicious circle of loneliness. But I'd like to think that given the opportunity, I'm very nice to people. It's just that there aren't any opportunities. If I get indirectly invited to a social event (party of a friend of a friend) I would feel really lonely and sad standing in a corner all by myself, but I would feel equally as depressed staying home. There's just no winning with me. I happen to think I'm pretty funny and witty, but I can't really be "myself" with new people b/c I'm not sure what would offend them. So making friends is a slow, and very rare process.

I love Alex, and hanging out with him is great. Then there are my co-workers, who are all very nice and friendly, but hardly friends. There's only 3 of them, and I try to keep it professional. I took a class last semester, but most of the ppl there were undergrads, and class is hardly a place to socialize. I know people at Chabad, but spending 3 hours a week together over dinner leaves little time to really get to know them. So that sums up my social exposure over the last 6 months. I have absolutely no one to call up to go to a movie, or shopping, or meet for lunch, etc... Pretty pathetic. And now I'm totally bummed.

I'm almost tempted to put an ad on Craigslist for a friend. They have a section in the personals called "strictly platonic." There are always ppl looking for someone to go to a movie with, jog with, go to a museum exhibit; people who are new in town looking to meet others, gay guys looking for "fag hags" (their words, not mine), etc... Some of the posts are a bit sketchy but I think the majority are genuine. There's a totally different section for sketchy encounters which attracts the freaks.

Hopefully, if I end up back in school this September, I'll have an opportunity to make new friends. It'll be a small group (10 people, 99% female), and we'll be in the same classes, study together, etc... I'm sure it'll still take me a while to consider any of them good friends, but at least there's a possibility. Of course this is all IF I go to school. In either case, September is another 6 months away. What do I do till then?

:(

LINK: online acronyms

AIM Acronyms

Since I started perusing blogs, I've run in to a lot of acronyms that were completely foreign to me. Time to study up!