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Posted by Jenny on 07/25/06 in Daily
This morning, after banging myself up a few hundred times, I had to head a few blocks over to do some work on a radio spot that my company is going to air starting tomorrow.
As we were being shown to the studio, my boss and I were chit-chatting. Just as the words “I’m so sweaty and gross right now” pass through my mouth I happened to look up to see who else may have heard about just how sweaty and gross the humidity was making me. And there, witnessing me in all my sweaty/gross glory is fellow blogger Erin(ire).
I’d like to think I’m a fairly eloquent person … most of the time. But I was so surprised to see Blogger Pal that I don’t think a single coherent thing came out of my mouth.
My boss must have sensed my … semi-retardedness and said “So .. do you know her?”
And I, still totally incoherent, come up with “NOT IN REAL LIFE.”
That, my friends, you can pinpoint as the moment my boss started questioning her decision to hire me.
Then, not one to let things lie, I continue on past the NOT IN REAL LIFE with “We blog. See we have BLOGS. That we BLOG in. Sometimes we leave comments on each other’s BLOGS. ((((LONG PAUSE.)))) I emailed her a couple times.”
???
Cue boss: “Riiight. So how did you know that was her?”
“Sometimes, in our BLOGS, that we BLOG in, we post pictures.”
Thank god at that moment we entered the studio and had to get down to business right away because I don’t think I could have saved myself at that point.
I actually did get the chance to talk to Erin again briefly (we shared a pizza…jealous?), but I was probably just as retarded. Though hopefully I stopped saying “BLOG!” every other word.
Hi Erin. I can talk normally on the nerdbox. Don’t hold my IN REAL LIFE incoherency against me. I swear, I am normal and if we hadn’t been so surprised, you would have seen that.
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Tom | Jul 25, 2006 | Reply
Sweet banner! Who did that? Did you? It’s awesome.
Hi, I’m Tom. I too have a blog. In fact, erinire has a link to my blog on hers, which, incidentally is how I got here, to your blog (that is, a link from erin’s blog to, not a link from erin’s blog to my blog, that’s ridiculous).
Anyway. I’ve read one post (this one) and am very impressed by your banner. And also the writing is good too. “blog” every other word – haha.
Ok. Anyway. I am now reading your blog. A new reader. Congrats (?)
Hopefully I will have intelligent or humorous comments in the future (you will be able to pick them out by their total irresemblance to this one).
cascadingly,
Tom
jenny | Jul 25, 2006 | Reply
TOM! I love new readers! And yes, I did do the banner myself. Thank you for the compliment. It’s funny that you comment on it now: I’ve had it up since October and was contemplating a redesign…. Hmmm.
BLOG.
erinire | Jul 25, 2006 | Reply
hahaha, incoherent squared. We are both retards – I tried to convey the online relationship to my (five) bosses and fared equally as poorly. They were like, you know her from your BLOG…
… ok …
:)
kim | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
i’d be so fun to just run into you one day. also, nobody here gets the BLOG-thing either. but i’ve met a few “readers” in real life and it’s FUN. just like i’m sure it’d be fun if we ever met. people just don’t get it. i mean, you have a place to crash at any time in germany… BLOG!
j to the a to the s - o - n | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
i dont cheat on you with other blogs J-child.
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Well mine IS the best. Or at least that’s what I hear … thanks to your party promotions.
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
ps.
BLOG!
j to the a to the s - o - n | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
you think the ‘we’ that got dropped from the ‘blog’ is jealous…kind of like Fitch is of Abercrombie &…
lunch buffet on saturday?
Jaynie | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
HA.
Okay, so I read your blog daily and love it to death. And I never comment, but I totally will start (see…doing it now). And I have fellow Boston readers who read you, and sometimes someone will make a random Jenny reference, like in real life (yea, okay, now i’m getting a bit creepy)… but, like, about your coffee dilemma… and what you should do… you know, the vital questions of life.
I’m thinking we work in similar Boston circles, and we’re bound to cross paths at some point, and in this case it will be me being all “OMG! Jenny!,” and you calling the cops, etc.
So now that i’m wicked scary… um, really great blog!
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Ohhh we should. MANGO LASSE.
j to the a to the s - o - n | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
sweet. ask part timer if she’s in…
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
OMG Jaynie I just LAUGHED OUT LOUD at your comment. I do that ALL the time with bloggers and seriously just start talking about them like they are my close personal friends who I’ve known forever!
jaynie | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
and what’s truly disturbing is that people in my “real life” know to qualify every name I bring up in conversation with “now… do you know-know him, or do you blog-know him?”
cool, but not.
kate.d. | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
jaynie k, you’ve been poking around in my blogroll :) i feel slightly removed from all this fun boston-blogger connectedness, being marooned out here in the midwest, but it’s fun to read about!
and it is interesting to me that you funny-ass ladies (jenny, erin, and jaynie from this thread at least) work in media/design/whathaveyou – what’s a lame non-profit girl to do? start studying html and production, apparently…
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Jaynie! We do the same thing! Or sometimes I’ll just refer to someone at “Blog + their name” like “Blog Jaynie” even if I don’t know any other Jaynies at all.
Kate.D. non profit is not lame!! But html is fun…. and full of geekery!
j to the a to the s - o - n | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
i thought i was the biggest loser in the place…guess not.
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Um, hello. J, do you know me? There is constantly a NERD ALERT alarm going off whenever I’m around.
j to the a to the s - o - n | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
ya it must have just slipped my mind how cool i am so…
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
3rd Grader: Hey look everybody, Billy peed his pants.
Billy: Of course I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It’s the coolest!
3rd Grader: Really?
Billy: Yeah! You ain’t cool, unless you pee your pants!
Old Farm Lady: If peeing in your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
Billy: That is the grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Let’s Go!
Jaynie | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
okay, fine, kate, you caught me, i stole your blog friend.
oh, and jenny, i know kate.d. in “real life”… AHH! The thought! The horror!
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
IN REAL LIFE!!!
SO she is “Kate.D IRL” as opposed to “BLOG! Jenny”
HOoker | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
The other day jenny was kind enough to drive me to go pick up my new motorcycle and we were talking during the ride. I forget the context, but she goes “so this girl erin i know…” and I interrupted “erin… ire?” to her astonishment, I knew who she was talking about (sort of) just because of this blog and erin’s occasional comments.
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Hah. And Hooker’s is a TRUE STORY.
This girl Erin I know … IN FAKE LIFE.
Except IN REAL LIFE now.
BLOG!
HOoker | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
I find myself talking about people I’ve never met that I regularly talk to online the same way. “This kid I know was telling me the other day…” etc.
I’m always screwed when someone asks “how do you know this dude?”
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Yeah, at least it’s not your BOSS asking. It’s probably other (semi-understanding) nerds like me ;)
Jaynie | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
and now this is very weird in that I feel like I inadvertantly bumped into a IRL friend in the comments section of a shared-blog-friend, who we didn’t know we both “know.” it’s like bumping into a work friend at a childhood friend’s baby shower… or something.
ok. not really like that at all.
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
it’s like an e-version of that.
e-bumping into a IRL friend at BlogFriend’s comment section … or something.
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Funny how the part-timer is the only one working around here!!! Beat it!!! ps Blog
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
ps that was kate on Jennys comp..haha
jason | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
hahaha hilarious
jenny | Jul 26, 2006 | Reply
Loser part time sister scamming on her sister’s mac.
GET OUT MY HOUSE AND OUT OF MY LIFE. NOW.
BLOG!
sannie | Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
we seem to be an odd group of people… we fellow bloggers :)
kim | Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
BLOG!
jenny | Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
So many of us link to the same circle of bloggers, we all need to get together someday. You Germans and Midwesterners, get your butts to Boston!
kim | Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
STANLEY – in chicago in the spring of next year!
http://www.veryzen.com/wordpress/wordpress/?page_id=321
BLOG!
jenny | Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
Hmm….I’ve never been to Chicago.
BLOG!
kim | Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
chicago R[BL]O[G]CKS!
jenny | Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
hahahah that is AMAZING kim. Good one.
Stacey | Aug 1, 2006 | Reply
So I just came back from vacation today and realized that I missed some fun! I know Jaynie IRL and Kate.D and Jenny from their blogs. Jayne & I will literally sit around & talk about previous blog posts on everyone’s sites. ;) Not creepy at all, but normal blogger weirdness!
Jenny | Aug 1, 2006 | Reply
See? It is TOTALLY normal blogger weirdness!!
Stacey | Aug 1, 2006 | Reply
Speaking off bloggers being weird together, Jayne & I were thinking that we could all meet up for drinks some night. Maybe at LTK?
jenny | Aug 2, 2006 | Reply
STACEY. WE SHOULD.