stat check and other miscellaneous comments
01/10/2004 08:30 p.m.
Date you signed up: 03/11/2003

People who have you on their friends list: 21

Your poems on file: 28
Comments on your poetry: 142
Times your poetry has been read: 1,291
Poems on your favorites list: 11
Your poems on other's favorites lists: 1

Total poem comments made 81
Private messages sent 595
Private messages received 569

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wow. i'm surprised, especially since i'm haven't been particularly active. have no idea who the ppl are who have me on friends list either. go figure. nice little ego boost tho.

poem/comment ratio could be up a little higher tho, i'm not quite averaging three per poem and i should try to make four per each new entry. ah well, i'll work on it. 1.2k reads considering how active i am is still fairly good in my opinion.

one writing did finally make somebody's fav list! woooooha! now i wonder who it was and which poem, LOL!

all in all, i'm fairly happy with my stats. that'll last until i compare them with somebody else's. so maybe i just won't do that. sounds like a workable plan to me.
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in current events:
pipes in bathroom leaked again. had to crawl under trailer to turn off all the water to stop it. monday i lost hot water, but nothing seems to be broken that i've been able to find.

found out i somehow paid an extra month on rent so i'm ahead there. get an extra paycheck this month which should cover auto insurance. all in all, while my finances still suck they ARE starting to improve finally.

roomie got his id, now for the job part of it. he's still miffed cuz he has to wait to get the actual card through the mail. evidently in oregon they get them immediately. *insert rolling of eyes here* everybody's a critic.

work - work sucks. have had to complain about ppl not doing their jobs on my shift. which the drc said basicly (but nicely) that since i'm a mt, i (and other mts) need to confront them on it at the time because we don't have an official manager. which is difficult when the problem people are older than the mts. even though most of us have more seniority, the older ones have the mindset that because we're younger we don't know what we're talking about. some of them when you say something to them, it's like it goes right over their head and they aren't comprehending what you're saying. is hard for me too because i only mt once a week, so i'm busy trying to remember how to do the job and i have to double and triple check the details in case there's a med change which leads to me not having enough time to go behind the problem workers to check their work. why can't people just do their jobs? urgh.

last night i found a plagiarist at another writing site. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury was badly rewritten for an insite contest. she had a few interesting angles in it but condensing the plot into your own words, changing the number of years and dropping the t off the end of the main char's name does not an original story make. turned it in to the moderator and her account was deleted today when i logged back in. she used the excuse that 'a friend' had dropped her 'a hint' but there were way too many similarities for that excuse to hold water. i don't know whether to count that as a good or a bad deed for the day. plagiarists suck. how do they expect to get away with using a well known author's work and passing it off as their own? especially one as memorable as that? erk.

and that's all folks.
I am currently Brooding
I am listening to roomie yakking