LOL

[volksdragon]

I am consistently amazed how many social events you can find you're not invited to, just by keeping up reading your friends list. :)

Comments

[ex-prunesnp.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's kind of a bad attitude to have about things. :/ Not that it's my house you weren't invited to, but as you know I can't always fit as many people in mine as I would like to do (and also stay sane and migraine-free)

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

A: It wasn't a house.
B: I wasn't actually referring to any specific gatherings going on soon, it's just something I've noticed it's possible to track.
C: If I felt real bad about it, I'd quietly ask the person about it at an appropriate time.

the pitfalls of discourse

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Heh. I knew that at least one person would think you were writing about them!

It is definitely possible to track something like this, and it can be a challenge - do you omit writing about events because there are people reading who weren't invited? I don't think there are any easy answers, except to be aware of the conundrum.

[buckeyebrain.livejournal.com]

Why else do you think I filtered you out from the invite to the hot tub party with Kathy Najimy, Camryn Manheim, Ricki Lake and Emme?

[kpht.livejournal.com]

i just puked a little in my mouth.

[siercia]

Why?

[volare.livejournal.com]

er, why?

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

With the fire of a million supernovae, my hate for you burns. :)

apparently

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

here's what you're supposed to do when that happens:

Have your SO call the host/ess of the party and fish for an invitation.

When this does not generate an invitation for you, make your SO call again and fish some more, perhaps even make up some plans of your own that you had hoped to include THEM in, so they'll be sure to feel like ass for not inviting you *guilt guilt, manipulate manipulate*.

Then when THAT doesn't work, IM them witn a bunch of crazy-ass accusations and kitchen-sink insults about every slight they've ever given you and how they've NEVEr ever ever been a good friend to you.

Then unfriend them on LJ and make your SO and all your friends do so, as well.

Then post stuff in your LJ about how narcissistic and immature they are under friends lock, while publicly posting that your LJ is no longer available for 'drama'

Huff.

Apparently this really works.

Re: apparently

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

DAMN. I'LL TRY THAT. KTHXBYE! :)

[marmota.livejournal.com]

No idea what specific events if any you may be referring to as I spent a chunk of the weekend at a ticketed event (Boston SF Marathon), but...

*shrug*

Corollarily (maybe that wasn't a real word, but it is now!), I am consistently amazed by how many social events I find I am invited to, but missed, by NOT keeping up on reading my lj friends list.

Life is an N Ring Circus, where N will always be greater than the number of hours of free time we'll ever have.

lj invites

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

I am consistently amazed by how many social events I find I am invited to, but missed, by NOT keeping up on reading my lj friends list.

Heh. I have to admit that this is one of my big peeves - invites by LJ. You can't really guarantee whether someone's reading their LJ at a particular point in time, but you can know if they at lease received an email. There's nothing wrong at all in posting lj invites for gigantic events including a zillion people (which is probably another reason I'm not fond of them), but it's irritating if they're specifically smaller events and are still lj-posted.

[uma-bella.livejournal.com]

You and your family are ever in Cincinnati and we will party! Then we will post about it and say how much we LAUGHED about some of the posts in LJ.....hee hee! Hell I say we make it all up anyway just to mess with folks!

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Heheh. When I have time for a FAKE party, I'll let you know, we can fake it up good. :)

[noodlefan.livejournal.com]

LOL...
I've been discovering that too!
FOrtunately the ones I did go to have been worth it.