A Busy Week, A Busy Year

[hkellick]

This... is a busy week.
But before I get into that, let me get into why I said it's a busy year.
As of 4:00 today, ecwoodburn and I have known each other IRL for a year.
As of next Monday, we'll have been a couple for a year.
"Wow" doesn't feel like it quite covers it.

So, to celebrate we had decided, about a months ago when we were first at ?Arundel Mills Mall, that we would do a fancy schamncy dinner to celebrate our one year anniversary at Medieval Times. There would have been some.. propriety in doing it at IHOP, but it wouldn't have been the same IHOP and.. eh.. this is fancier and niftier ;D
So that's Saturday Night. (I should call and see if I need to make reservations tonight).

We'd also planned on getting the second season of Farscape together and watching that whenever we can (since she loves rewatching the episodes and I'm a recent convert).
The plan is, since we both got paid today, I'm going to run out at lunchtime and see if I can't buy it at the nearby Best Buy. If I can, that's what we're doing tonight :)

Tommorow.. Tommorow-orrow-orrow (This works so much better with Saturday Sat-sat-saturday).. The clash of the Titans, the Showdown of Showdowns, the game to end ALL GAMES. Only the best will survive! Tommorow, the two PBS&J Softball teams: The Natural Disasters (You may boo now) and Lookin' to Score (You may cheer now) are going to play against each other.
Actually, I don't really expect us to win, but if we do, boy is the other team gonna get it ;) All day throughout work ;)

And Thursday.. Thursday is the CharGen/Informational Meeting for xiombarg's "Unsung" campaign. I don't really know alot about it just yet. I've read the rules and I'm excited about playing (if nothing else, it's a foot in the door for the Maryland Gaming Community).

So, to summarize.

Today/tonight - Farscape
Tommorow - Softball
Thursday - Roleplaying
Saturday - Medieval Times/Arundel Mills Mall.

Yes, very busy week :)

Comments

[lite.livejournal.com]

No. I'm sorry. Let me say it properly.

No "congrats". No "Woot". No positive comment at all.
Just a quick snip because I don't spellcheck my journal entries and I NEVER spell Tomorrow correctly.

It's people like YOU that make the internet suck.

[circa.livejournal.com]

First, congrats - lets hope its the first year of many :)

Second - erm, have I missed something, or are we not being a bit harsh?

[lite.livejournal.com]

I may have been a little harsh, but I'll stand by what I said.

I really hate grammar/spelling nazis.
No, I DON'T spellcheck my own personal journal before posting it. Yes, I am aware of the fact that I don't necessarily spell properly. It's my journal and I feel like I get my point through regardless of how badly I butch the word "Tomorrow."
If it bothers her that much that she needs to, in a fit of annoyance, post something of the gist of beating me over the head with Merriam-Webster, than she can feel free to stop reading.
I haven't spellchecked my journal ever and I really don't have the time, or the need, to start now.

[dustkitten.livejournal.com]

For someone who wants the human race to better itself, I find it hard to believe you balk at correcting the one word you consistantly spell wrong.

I don't sit here and look the misuse of colons or sentence fragments. I don't even give a shit about typos. Typos happen; I usually have one or two per entry myself.

I thought that pointing out this error would be the way for you to notice the mistake and change it, but you don't seem to want to do that. Sure and I guess it doesn't matter that I don't do it to be a "grammar/spelling Nazi," but rather because I like my intelligent friends to present the best them possible, to BE the best them possible, and to give them the equivalent a nudge under the table if they're picking up the wrong fork at a fancy dinner.

But you don't see it that way and I'm finding myself pretty insulted by your opinion of me yet again. Maybe your suggestion is the best course of action.

-A-

[lite.livejournal.com]

I had this conversation about a month ago with a friend of Kristen's who posted something that sounded insulting despite the fact that she didn't mean it as such.
I apologize if I got all bent over you correcting my spelling, however it was the way you said it that really irritated me. What I read into it was "I have nothing to say about the subject matter, but I'm REALLY irritated that you can't spell "Tomorrow" wrong.".
Maybe it's the lack of words that don't convey "I'm doing this to help you", but looking back at my comment, I still find it really irritating.
It's one thing to gently nudge me under the table, it's another to throw the proverbial dictionary at me until I get it right.

As for consistently misspelling "Tomorrow", it's not that it's malicious or purposeful, but simply that I keep forgetting how to spell it properly. As I'm about to comment to Jen, I made it through as far as I did with a spellchecker and a dictionary. When I post, I don't have either in front of me. I don't think that usually detracts from the meaning of the post.

[kareila]

I'm trying not to take sides here, but for what it's worth, I think that some of your more spectacular misspellings DO get in the way of you getting your point across. In this case, I failed to notice that you spelled tomorrow wrong, because it's a relatively minor and common typo. But there have been times when I have seriously had to puzzle out the meaning of a sentence. It has occasionally bothered me that you got to be a professional with a graduate degree while still spelling like a seventh grader. I don't hold it against you after all this time; I still think you're a nifty person in spite of it. But it IS annoying. :)

I'm really excited that you and Kristen are celebrating your one year anniversary. I hope it's only the beginning, and that you'll enjoy much more happiness together down the road. And that you'll remember to talk to your old friends online occasionally. :)

*hugs and loves and goes back to trying not to read LJ*

[lite.livejournal.com]

I made it through Graduate school with a Spell Checker and a Dictionary. Both of which are still crutches for me through my professional career.
Unfortunately, the problem, for me, is that there are so many spellings of words that LOOK like they COULD BE right and I always forget the proper spellings. People HAVE corrected me before and I go on my merry way and the next time around "uh... was it appropriate? or apropriate? or.. crap. I forgot already." :p
English is Hard. Math is Easy. :)