IMing

I have a terrible confession. I'm absolutely horrible at IM conversations.

It's not that I can't type. I can. Obviously. You can't run a blog without being at least semi-decent at typing. Or, more to the point, you can't run a semi-decent blog without being at least semi-decent at typing. My typing is fine. It's great even. I'm a great typist.

But, often, in the middle of a conversation, I'll get up and walk away from my computer. I don't say "AFK", "BRB", or any of that. I just get up, and let silence fill in the details.

This isn't because I hate chatting. I love it. I think it's awesome. It's more that I have a very fickle attention span, which is only made worse by my never ending desire to multi-task. Sometimes, this means I end up trying to work on projects that are several rooms apart (like, now, for example, when I'm in here talking about how awful I am at chatting, checking the kitchen for matches for my wife, and in the living room watching Buffy on DVD). This off-again, on-again attention means it's sometimes hours between when I start a conversation, and when I continue it.

This is only made worse by Google Chat, which doesn't bother telling you on the IM screen if the person you're IMing has logged off.

This means I have lots of conversations that look like this:

5:01 PM John: have you already made plans for tonight?7:46 PM me: not realy

So... yeah. I just want to let everyone know that chatting with me is troublesome, and I often goof it up.

That's all.
--Joe

p.s. Two posts in one night. I'm awesome.
p.p.s. (not p.s.s. which means post-script-script which makes no sense) I'm still going to try to post again before the week is over.