Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Twitter celebrity and careless stinkers

one of the more emotional-rollercoastery days on record. I shall ellaborate in numbered form, per the usual:
  1. I actually got up when my alarm went off. Lately I've been pressing snooze a lot, but there was something about this day... I think I knew it would be a weird one.
  2. As any other day in the last several months, I checked my ever-growing twitter feed on my open/professional/general account (@rosegrabowski) and saw a funny post from an important person in the Search / SEO/ Google world. I am one of his >22,000 followers. I re-tweeted and added my own commentary

    mattcutts
    I can't stop watching this 7 second video: http://bit.ly/kXsde

    rosegrabowski
    7 seconds of physics bliss. nerdily brings me back to the happy days of AP Physics & the right hand rule http://bit.ly/vd2ls (RT @mattcutts)

    mattcutts
    @rosegrabowski AP Physics FTW :)

    wait, WTF??? he replied to me, apparently he likes my nerdyness (FTW=for the win.) But the best part... he then proceeded to ADD ME TO THE PEOPLE HE FOLLOWS. and you know how many people that is? 116. Or, now it's 117.

    This is a big deal. I have no idea why this guy, who is kind of a big deal at google, would follow me. But with great power comes great responsibility. I.e. I have to be careful what I tweet now, or my superiors at work might get angry :)
  3. So that was cool.
  4. Yup, that was cooler than meeting Ben Affleck this weekend. And more lasting (now I have a direct line into Matt Cutts' computer. holy god.) I was giddy and blushing (who the crap AM I? super nerd, thats who.)
  5. I came home from work and on my kitchen table was a bowl of yogurt. Just sitting there. and I smelled coffee... because the coffee pot was still on. And the crud was burnt to the bottom of the carafe. My first thought was that maybe my sister was abducted suddenly from the house. Then I remembered her boyfriend was here. Michael, I know you try - but I shall continue to passive-aggresively call out acts of carelessness through my blog on an as-needed basis. Sorry :)
  6. I ran off to the grocery to get some food stuffs for grilling tomorrow (yay! more grilling!) As I backed out of the parking spot into the general part of the lot, I looked behind me and saw someone else getting into their car behind. I figured he'd, you know, at least look to see I was backing out. I slowly moved, and just as I was about to go from R to D, I looked and saw him BACKING UP INTO ME. I beeped as harshly as possible, but to no avail. The idiot must not have looked in his rearview at all w/in 15 seconds of moving. He hit my bumper, I didnt see any damage but I still yelled at him. Or, kind of raised my voice. I dont yell. BUT I F*ING WANTED TO.
what a weird day... these orange popsicles I bought at the grocery should help keep me calm :)

2 comments:

  1. Rose - I want to take a moment to say - I love you! I love your nerdyness, your true love for cooking AND eating, your love for the outdoors and willingness to go camping, and all of the other things that make you Rose. You are wonderful! That is all.

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