Teh Internet, it eats my brainz :)

I'm still not quite caught up on LJ after the Christmas break. A large part of the blame for that can be safely laid on Tumblr.:) The thing with Tumblr is that it SEEMS easier & faster to scroll through, because there are more images than text... but some people post A LOT. As in, dozens of images per hour. I don't know how on earth they find time for that, but somehow they do, and being the hopeless anal-retentive nerd that I am, I can't help but want to at least glance briefly at everything posted on each blog I follow... and that can take FOREVER. *sigh* (and I only follow 13 blogs, in case you're wondering; I know people who follow hundreds, and I do worry about their sanity, honestly I do... LOL) I admit this may be turning into an addiction problem. Not even kidding, really... *shifty eyes*

Also, I've been texting my usual texting partner.:D Another addiction we share, LOL. We do share quite a few, btw. We should probably go to rehab together. Though that might actually make matters worse. As in, our craziness seems to increase in direct proportion to the amount of time spent discussing it. Or something.

Btw, my sister & brother-in-law are having a small New Year's Eve party at their art studio tomorrow, just like last year, and I am invited - so I will probably pop on over there for a few hours (not too many, since it's f&%#ing FREEZING outside again, and their studio doesn't have central heat; there's just a bunch of small electric heaters scattered here and there over enormous space, and people just tend to huddle around them without taking their coats off...:). I don't anticipate lasting long past midnight, though. Severe winter weather makes me a very sleepy, lethargic, antisocial creature... (unless we're talking about THE INTERNET, of course...:D).

Also, I'm trying not to dwell on that, but work might be stressful again, starting in January... AND, to make matters more interesting, I have jury duty on the 7th.:/ It's standby service, which means I have to call on the day before to see if I actually need to report - so please keep your fingers crossed that I don't. It's a criminal court this time, halfway across town, which I find a little terrifying. I mean, just to get there by public transport might take me up to 2 hours, depending on traffic; and what if they put me on a jury, and I have to go there EVERY DAY for God knows how long?... Ugh. Please no. I've done pretty well so far at not letting it ruin my holidays... but it does hang at the back of my mind like a shroud. *humorless smirk*

OK, that's it for tonight. I'm severely multitasking right now; as in, texting and simultaneously reading stuff on Dreamwidth, LJ AND Tumblr. God have mercy. Something's gotta give, and unfortunately it's this entry. I'll go back through the flist and leave some comments at SOME point in the unspecified near future. Or so I hope... *weary sigh*