June 6, 2003

• School is actually eating into my summer.  Everyone else in the area is already off.  We're COMPLAINING in hopes they'll have a better academic calendar next year.   And:  Is this final project a bitch or what?   End of subject; I'm needed on the side patio for BBQ duty.   Yeah, I know it's late, but we forgot to allow time for the marinade, what with having our heads buried in books and all......

  
  

  This is really weird.  I don't know about you, but I've sorta been getting lots of invites to this new blogsite in the UK, 20six.   It appears scores of fellow Xangans are turning expatriot and setting up shop over there--under their same names.   Not me.   I don't wanna seem like a criminal!  Just kidding, but their logo with a huge black FINGERPRINT over the number "20" give me the creeps, even though the only time I ever had a black thumb was when I got my first driver's license.   (I suppose they need everyone's on record at SOME point in case you ever decide to become a baddie.)  But in this case, the site owners are trying to assure aspiring writers that their stuff "has their name on it"--err, is copywrited--over there?......even for NONCiTiZeNs?   I don't think so.   A friend of Chelle's folks had a short story plagiarized and made into a stage play; she couldn't do anything about it cuz they were really clever and released it overseas.  Besides the same old e-props that cause so much trouble, 20six has celebs butting in to add THEIR two cents.  There's a really awesome agreement to sign, too, and they get into things like blacklisting of naughty members.  I don't wanna give up my nice blog name on account of that.  But really, I just started here and, to me, one site is the same as the other, so I might as well stick to my own country.   Maybe all the fancy graphics give a fluffy impression to some, but hell, at least they're available and you don't have to use 'em.   Our site is what we make it.  (kiss, kiss.)

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