Gchat Realizations: Part 3

Who knew true love could be discovered over Gchat?

me: my brain is mush
Sent at 4:12 PM

Eric: my brain is tired

me: ugh...terrible

Eric: but my brain loves your brain

Gchat Realizations: Part Deux

So, here's the deal. I am now fully confident in the fact that I was meant to be a writer. There have absolutely been shaky days where that fact was unclear. But, now, in my many years of experience (so sure), I can say that I was meant to be a writer and there is absolutely no turning back. There is obviously more than one reason that this is true, but I have recently discovered one that I find really hilarious.

And that is that I love, nay LOVE, punctuation and the ability to make words mean things through formatting. For example, in gchat, I never knew how to do anything except for type and capitalize words. Now, as fun as that can be -yelling via gchat - I still felt like something was missing. Oftentimes I've found myself wishing I could convey my sarcasm or humor through the glorious world of italics...but alas, I did not know how. Well, my friends, those days are over.

And herein lies the gchat where Eric showed me the world of bolds, strikethroughs and italics.

3:13 PM
Eric: sigh
so this how you bold
just found out
*
word
*

me: how do you bold??

Eric: *
word
*

me: damn

Eric: ha

me: wow!!!!

Eric: now i am happy

me: awesome
that's insane!
do you know how to ital?

Eric: i wonder how you use italics

3:15 PM
me: hahahaha
same time

Eric: /ha/
thats not it

me: ahahah

Eric: yo
ha, found the strikethrough

me: how'd you do that?

Eric: !

me: !

Eric: -
word
-
+hello+

me: yup

Eric: thats nothing

me: ahahah

Eric: got it
_
word
_

me: awesome
not it
awesome

3:18 PM
Eric: ha
this will blow your mind

me: no this will

3:19 PM Eric: how about this
oh snap

3:20 PM me: whoa!!

Eric: greatest. gchat. convo. ever.

me: ever!

Gchat Realizations: Part 1

If you are anything like me, first, you can consider yourself lucky. And second, you can be sure that you g-chat at work. For those of you who don't know about g-chat (ahem, mom and dad), I will enlighten you. G-chat is a tool within Google E-mail (aka Gmail) wherein you can chat instantly a la AOL with your fellow Gmail users and friends. It is not only a place to connect, but with my friends it also seems to be a place where wit and whimsy run a muck.

I have often found that this magical place called g-chat is also a place where I learn a lot about myself. Case in point is in a chat I had yesterday with my friend Tim. It went something like this:

Tim: I found the coolest day drinking place this weekend
you'd LOVE it

2:39 PM
me: i already love it
Tim: floating bar on the Potomac, sort of Mexico feel, minus the 19yr olds
me: shut up!!!
Tim: amazing
me: sounds perfect
Tim: i met a girl there, was her suggestion
i'm stoked on it
me: i like her
Tim: ha she texted me...."i love daydrinking"

2:40 PM
Tim: what does it say about me that that is a turn on?
me: that is awesome
it's not weird - i am turned on by that
too
Tim: hahaha
nice

Because I absolutely love my friend Tim, as well as his new suggested day-drinking place, I love this conversation. I have also learned from this two things. 1. Tim still knows me really well (despite the many miles we live apart), and 2. that apparently, girls that like day-drinking are automatically on my "I like you" list. Good to know. Thanks, g-chat.