| Saturday March 9th 2002 Okay, I'm going to dwell on this personal ad writing thing some more, because there's a bit of a catch-22 built into it that's bugging me. I've observed that if I'm too specific about what I'm looking for, I'm excluding some really great people. But reading other people's ads, I see that if they're too general I'm not very confident I know much about them. So what's the solution to that? So far I'm adapting the tactic of being specific in mine and messaging the oblique ones, inviting them to check out mine and see what they think - the risk being they'll decide they're not in my category, I suppose. But the important thing is to open a line of communication - maybe in a reply I can salvage something. Hmm, maybe it's a bad strategy if I'm thinking in terms of 'salvaging' already... So what else is going on in my life, besides obsessing over getting my ad just right, etc.? I did a pretty major grocery trip all on my lonesome this morning that made me quite proud; left a phone message regardiing the only decent apartment ad I could find the in the paper. Guess I'll hang around a while in case they call back. It didn't identify address, pets or availability (I'm looking to move for April 1st) so I'll need more details. Now, let's get serious and do some damn writing today! Every time I've said I'm going to, I either go out the door somewhere or sit here writing for the internet instead - argh, here I am doing it again! Okay, I'm cutting myself off right here.... ...almost. Just one more topic to get into. Ever visit the Yahoo! sites and get this stupid ad about miniature 'security' cameras popping up? What I want to know is, if these are security cameras then why do all of them feature pan shots of some attractive chick? Yeah, we get it, don't we - stow this camera in your pocket and catch some babes who'll never even remember your name on video. Uh-huh - not the stupid ad consuming public you thought we were, huh? Now think about this... how creepy is that? How'd you like to discover some guy you've barely said hello to has been secretly videotaping you? Put that on the 'socially unacceptable ways to treat people' list. Now, if it were some chick taping me, well.... that would be different (ahem)... |