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The blog world is so interesting. When I get behind on emails or blogs I will commonly gripe about how behind I am in my "e-life". . . My husband even jokes that he thinks I should work outside the home, not for the money, but for the sake of having a "real social life". But did you know that the blogging community is SO much like a tangible community?! I'm not talking about stupid celebrity blogs . . . I'm talking about real people who blog about their own lives. Recently, in a discussion with a good friend, I learned that there is even a popular crowd . . . as a matter of fact, there are two popular crowds. There is a popular clique of people who blog from the glass half empty point of view, and another from the glass half full point of view. It's just like in middle school. There are the cool "mean" kids and the cool "nice" kids. I find that my social status in the blogosphere is the same as it is in all my social circles. This intrigues me.

I have found that it is the blogger who reveals more about their life than themselves whose blogs become popular. I explained to my friend that I purposely don't write a lot about my life (though I don't know what that purpose is) and she challenged me to share a little more about my life. So, today, I'm copying and pasting an email straight from my inbox. Why? Because it's hilarious. And I want to share with you what made me laugh . . . and they said they always wanted to have their work published . . .

"...I've always wanted to get my work published. First your blog then the nobel prize. Although I don't think they give a nobel prize for incoherant crap. Shame really. .. "and the nobel prize for incoherant nonsense goes to .. [friend's name] for their article on nothing in particular" .. fame, fortune and my name in the history books. All started by your blog.

I do remember the deja vu conversation because i thought we had it before ... (get it?). I get deja vu all the freaking time too. Weird. And now it's all explained which is a shame because I had it chalked up to being a wizard, but turns out I am not in fact a wizard. Damn it. Stupid freaking colliding dimensions, they ruined my wizardry. Should you ever become a physisist, tell the intellectual community that I'm a wizard. A wizard with a nobel prize.

I friended your cousin by the way. Now she's probably wondering who the hell I am. Oh well. As for the living situation, I am living with my friends Simon and Nicola and their 18 month old baby, who I am teaching to walk because he needs to know how to do this. It's not progressing as quickly as I had hoped. I think it's a communication problem (surprised?). I speak English and he speaks baby, and we are not on the same page most of the time. But he's getting better.

I wrote Google on your behalf, $40 000 a year and you can work from home and they provide free coffee. Sorted. The contract is in the mail. You're welcome.

Don't be a lazy American, go to Wal-Mart. Do it for me. Buy crap you don't need just because it's all in the same store. And do it at 3 in the morning just because it's open all night. Live the dream. One of us has to.

So how's the world of tea? Open a tea shop. Think about it, there are millions of coffee shops but not many tea shops. It's a hole in the market and you could corner it. Or I could open a tea shop you could run. Then you'll be a googling physisit running a tea shop that's owned by a nobel prize winning wizard and we'll both have the feeling that it's all happened before. Ridiculous...."

Don't know if it made you laugh, but it made me laugh so there you have it.