Official announcements

I am lame at being mean.
This should not be interpreted as an admission that, contrary to my assertions in previous posts, I really am a nice person. It's just that my evil is of (by all accounts and the consensus of commenters) of an insipid and pH-neutral variety. All right. I can live with that.

Since documenting Hortense as a shallow, disloyal, petty lush, I've thought of half a dozen worse things I could have related about her. Just as a little postscript: what possessed me to omit describing her habit of making pruriently-flavored comments to my supervisor in my presence? (Not that it would have been any more appropriate in my absence--but at least it would have spared me.) And as a final garnish on the topic, when I was out with the Jellybean yesterday (treating her to a pizza lunch in a fancy trattoria as reward for patiently breathing in toxic fumes for an hour at the salon so that I could look bee-yoo-teous as usual), I ran into a whole tableful of my ex-colleagues, including the same Hortense--seated directly in my line of sight--and she pointedly ignored me when the Jellybean and I came over to greet them all. Which is consistent, but it was freakish to witness nonetheless. If it hadn't been for the generally high level of dysfunction distributed over the table, it would have been noticed.

I did a bad, bad thing.
Or I'm not doing a good, good thing. Or at least I'm a negligent blog hostess. It has not escaped my notice that I have been blogging much, much less of late--from upwards of five times a week, to barely scraping in one or two a week. Furthermore I've been a dilatory follower of, and commenter on, other blogs in which I take a keen personal interest. When did this whole blogging enterprise become yet another opportunity for me to stuff some guilt into my life? All of these activities are ostensibly not only optional, but done for my own satisfaction. Furthermore I think the entries are better when I keep my hand in and, as one of my favorite bloggers might put it, frequently stir the pot. Isn't it odd that this reduction in blogtivity can be traced quite precisely to when I left my job? I thought I'd have great everlasting gobs more time!

Anyway, I'm resolving to do better. So feel free to drive up my stats by dropping by often, and I'll try to oblige by maintaining you in the off-dry, semi-witty banter to which you are by now accustomed.

Comments

[Mir]

Personally, I think being lousy at being mean is kind of admirable. I mean, I'm excellent at being mean, but no one has ever really been impressed by that. The ability to make people whimper has limited scope, at best.

And? You writing more often would be awesome. I come by several times a day with high hopes, you know. You should see the little dance I do when there's a new post! ;)

[Angie]

Wow this Hortense person (great name by the way!)
sounds like a lovely lady!

[Lee]

You haven't been blogging? Really? Hmmmm..ummmm...errrr.....oh yeah, what's up with that? I really missed you.

[Hula Doula]

I've been a silent observer for a while. Looking forward to seeing more of you.

[science chick]

agreed that those suffering most from your recent lack of posting proclivity are we who look forward to it, rather than thou who guilts over it.

[Genuine]

As long as you keep showing up on Thursdays!