Cliniging to the Internet at Work...

[sisabet]

So I have no AIM. Actually, this is true on many levels since my lack of spatial skills dictates that nothing I ever throw will land or hit where I intend it to go. Well - I say it is my spatial skills as a set, the Boy maintains that it is mainly due to my lack of depth perception and Dawn says that it is because I just do not try hard enough. This all came up this weekend as we were painting and discussing why I never followed through on being an astronaut, even though there was a two-week period as a child where that was my goal. I was commiserating with a CD of Eddie Izzard and his scaled back dreams.

Dawn: You give up on everything.

Me: There is no way I could ever be an astronaut.

Dawn: You listen to people when they tell you that you can't do something. I never ask.

Me: Dawn! I. Can. Not. See. There is no way I could be an astronaut. You have to have 20/20 vision or something - I saw it on "I Dream of Genie."

Dawn: You don't know that for sure because you never tried.

Me: Well then, would you be comfortable with me in a space shuttle?

Dawn: Liz, I won't even ride with you in town, after dark.

So I have no aim. But also no AIM and I miss it. I am an AIM addict. I miss ya'll.

Comments

[mrmonkeybottoms.livejournal.com]

SOB. I miss you on AIM all the time! Tonight I am starting the new Odd Couple chapter, and then I will send it to you guys for your approval. I hope you are liking your new place and that Dawn will put a TV in the den.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I miss you too!!

::clings::

The Odd Couple!! Wheee!! Where I write fic without that pesky little detail of actually, y'know - writing anything. I love being a writer. It is so easy.

Dawn may have to put a TV in the den if she wants to have cable. Apparently, God also agrees with me. TV's belong in dens. Divine Proclamation - obviously.

[mrmonkeybottoms.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! God works in mysterious, and sneaky, ways.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have ever talked to you on AIM.

But now that I know that I could have and now cannot?

I angst.

*nods angstily*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

sidthedogfacedboy is my user ID. I should be back ::courageous intake of air:: soon.

[josselin.livejournal.com]

I miss you too!

Anyway, I hate to argue against you, but I think since contact lenses were invented there is a lot more flexibility for airplane pilots and astronauts as far as vision goes. My understanding is that glasses were not acceptable but contacts are? But then, I had another friend who was going into commercial flying because his vision was too poor for him to fly with the military. So maybe it still matters somewhat.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I think the *real* question of eligibility here is whether or not you could, without weaponry, beat up a caveman, should you come across one.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Depends on how much the caveman pisses me off, I think. I can, when pressed, become a righteous flurry of flailing limbs, like that thing in TXF movie - it killed those cavemen toot sweet.

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

I think not having aim would be more of a disadvantage for a caveman than an astronaut. Because, you know, of having to throw spears and stuff. *quickly abandons very bad joke*

I have no aim either. But I do have AIM, sometimes. And I miss you.

Why don't you have AIM?

[aexia.livejournal.com]

And why haven't I ever seen you on-line before?

Also, you should try Trillian (http://www.trillian.cc). All the IM goodness and none of the spyware.

Re: Why don't you have AIM?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I'm always online - except now when I am not. I don't have internet at my house until next week and I cannot run IM programs on my work computer.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

But you do follow through on things. You got vidding down. That requires quite a bit of follow through. If you didn't follow through on the whole astronaut thing, maybe you weren't all that interested to begin with.

I have no opinion about whether the cavement or the astronauts would win but, I would enjoy watching.

[rainmercutio.livejournal.com]

Hee, Eddie Izzard.

"You'll have to scale it back a bit, you're British."

Not having AIM is sad. I have AIm, but no aim, though.