i was just piddling around online and reading about social software (there is no one link to give… would it be cool if i could give a link to a list of links? how would that work? it would be annoying if it opened a bunch of windows, but cool if it generated one window and populated it with all of the links in the list… hmm…), and i signed up at 43things.com, which is kind of interesting.
but i’m not really here to talk about the site itself right now, i’m just here because that link up there, at the time that i posted this, goes to a page that says “kynthia is doing 2 things and going 0 places” and man, even writing that now to tell you the story makes me laugh Really Really hard…
i can’t even finish this post intelligibly…
it’s difficult to breathe…

update – 12/25: this post strikes me as a pretty good marker of right before i crossed over and grokked delicious. it’s kind of amazing, and potentially historic, so there ya go. today, if you want to see things that i classify as social software (which i actually kind of stopped doing… i’m giving a bit of a moratorium on buzzwords until i decide how to deal with them in my tags), you can just look here. just like what i asked for, and even better because it will evolve.

this time the wireless might really be working…

i’ll go bash my head against the floor because knocking on wood just isn’t enough for this one, but…
ye gods

if there is any benefit to taking an ungodly long time to deal with a plethora of phone line annoyances, it is that it makes you gleefully grateful for what others take for granted…
it’s like taking a hot shower for the first time after spending months without plumbing in the middle of winter…

ahhhh…..

An update, for those of you white-knuckled with your popcorn over whether yesterday’s application will be allowed to go through:

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Dear Kynthia Brunette :

Thank you for your interest in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

You do not have to sent us another transcript. Transcript without transcript form or applicant ID will be process using the first and last name.

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:)
Thank you for this confirmation.
Email without past tense will be post for amusement and general celebratory tomfoolery.