Netspeak may have structure, but I'm still not deciphering it!

Note: What your LJ people would never admit Blogquiz, by Cami.


Eric called at 6:35, wanting to be let in - sure, why not? After a few minutes of surveying my place, we left for Fellowship with his teasing me about how I'd done something to the Coquihalla Highway. He also was pleased that the Canucks had finally won in regulation time - not since January 3? Man, that's a dubious streak! Sang a NES tune, wondered about my bling dragon necklace (grad banquet!), complained about traffic, and tried convincing me to work on a certain problem. (eventually, I begged him to do that for me - to his credit, he did... YAY!)

Got to church to find several people downstairs already, so I grabbed stuff from the Fellowship box (which I still have), and talked to various people. Raymond thought the SuperPoke on Facebook quite amusing / is going to the Sunday Dinner, Andrea T. got my RSVP email (but had covered me already), Martin and Connie did get my emails (info rules!), and Andrea L. loved my "festive red toque." Said hi to Janette, Sheena, Teresa, Grace, Cindy, Dianne, and others while doing attendance at the same time as praying for the food. The meeting went relatively well, and now I have two sets of minutes to type up - maybe I'll start that tomorrow or something. As I told Jeremy and Jen later, I have quite the full week coming up: Sunday (luncheon and dinner), Monday (lunch / finding MC stuff for Steph and Joey), Tuesday (dinner), Thursday (SLB?), Friday (Fellowship), and Saturday's Awana. Jeremy reassured me that a full week was good: oh, I do believe that! (must have some downtime too, else I'll go nuts!)

Apparently, I'm now the "Birthday Expert," which goes with Jason and Keith telling me that the Birthday Queen has amazing birthday prowess, haha. Steph asked me how old Raymond is - no idea, but he's older than me! (same with Martin) She figures she'll add him to Facebook via my friends list, and maybe she'll add Myles too via the same method. (maybe he used Harmony's list to find me...) Raymond told her that he hid his birthday on his Facebook profile, oh well. Told Jeremy about the SLB outing on Thursday - he'd seen the email subject, but not the actual email. I told him about the "mushy chocolate" line, which somehow led to a discussion about chocolate fondue and the time when Jon grossed out Sarah and other Resonate people by putting broccoli in the chocolate! Steph let Connie and Raymond know that I usually drink lots of beer (ENTERTAINMENT!) at family dinners - uh, thanks... :P

Then Jeremy told Jen about his made-up punctuation marks... a question-colon, anyone? It's supposed to introduce a list in the form of a question ("What do you think about these items"), and then there's his exclamation-colon: Jen thought it was hilarious! From there, we got onto grammar, (middle) names, spelling, and such stuff... Jer didn't know that Jen and I were so passionate about the spelling of names! She hates "How do you spell your name?" (Gennifer, Jenniphur... YUCK!), and I'd once seen "Tymothee" - EW! We talked about (doubling) recipes, boiling water, time-consuming processes of chopping shallots, Irish beef stew, beef stock / beef broth, having enough food to last the week, allspice being one type of spice and not everything all together, and cooking in general. (at least Jeremy understood what I was saying through a huge yawn - yay for good friends like that!)

Jeremy analyzed Netspeak and instant message shorthand from a linguist's point of view - it may be true that it has its own structure, but I'd never use it myself! Jen says that MSN isn't her thing anymore, and was amazed at Booze Mail - it's something where you can send your friends virtual drinks without spending the money! (tea / coffee / a wide selection of alcoholic drinks / water...) Same with the flowers and eggs, which she never got into. Jeremy and Jon are like the only two Facebook holdouts, but they do prefer face time! ("I figure if I'm never on MSN, people will have to talk to me in real life, haha!") Have definitely missed the humorous analysis, for sure! :D (man, I liked being a nerd tonight, hahaha... YAY!)

Eric wanted to go early since he was tired, so after I confirmed things with Karen, we left. When he heard that I'm Lenting MSN (Steph thinks I'm being mushy with K by calling him twice a day now - perhaps), he was surprised - yup, the only way he can get my attention now is the PHONE! Steph said that she'd used shorthand when she was a teen, but had switched to normal English when chatting with someone older than she. The teens these days don't do that, so she's left trying to decipher a bunch of email and things since she doesn't want to come across as an old fart / ancient if she demands they switch. ("I just hope they know how to actually write when they have to..." "Yeah... I had to read one of Emily's Awana-related emails, and I gave up about a quarter of the way through!") We talked about Vivian S., Sarah Rowlett's situation (calling off the wedding of your 18-year-old daughter and shipping her off somewhere else?!), specific examples of things which weren't really shortening anything, bad spelling, Netspeak, blocking ICQ / Facebook, changing passwords (get someone you TRUST so you're not Internet married to a sleazy man after Lent or something), and tubing at Mount Seymour tomorrow.

During a recent games program for Timothy Fellowship, Margaret L. and Steph were the most excited ones! ("But we thought this was what you WANTED!" "Meh...") Eric joked that they should have a Bible Study via LAN, and Steph took it a step further to include video conferencing... she unfortunately thinks that THOSE would have better participation than their current model! "I don't want to interact with people except over DS / PSP / the Internet / Facebook!" Said that Teresa is Lenting Oprah and PEOPLE, and Dylan is Lenting comics (reading) - Steph didn't know Dylan spent THAT much time with comics, and I didn't either till I read the comments on Teresa's note earlier today!