Sickdays

Today, me and Atli Þorgeir (my son) are staying home. He got the flu last week and I thought that he was all better on Monday and sent him to school - but it turns out I was wrong, he got a fever again so I didn't want to take any chances by sending him to school again today. So, yet another day of laziness and complete boredom for us. So far, I've missed 7 full days of school and I'm getting pretty afraid that I'll have a hard time recovering from that... But I keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best, promise myself to do a lot of work during the weekend or something *yah, right*
Actually, thing have been somewhat tougher this semester. For some reason, I haven't quite been able to find peace to concentrate on school. It kind of stinks, since I love sharpening my brain on new stuff - but there have been incidents occurring pretty much constantly since the year began that have prevented me from reaching my goals and full potential. All I can do is try to hang on and hope for the best. Hopefully, when things settle down around here I can concentrate on getting back on track.

Hmmm... I just realized how completely useless and absolutely boring this post must seem to the people unfortunate enough to have stumbled across this site... So I guess I'll move on to something else!

I was wondering the other day about how people you've never actually met can still give you a certain feeling. Now, of course I'm talking about people you meet online. I've done quite a bit of socializing around the web for the last few months and I've "met" a lot of different kinds of people. Some I've gotten to know pretty well but most I've just had casual conversations with and haven't really gotten inside their shell. But the funny thing is that I think that even though it's kind of unpersonal, you still get some sort of chemistry going on with people. You either like them or you don't - just based on a few lines of text exchanged. And your opinion isn't always formed by what they say, but how they say it. So from thinking about that I of course started wondering about how I must come off to the people I talk to.
I must admit, I haven't been doing this for a very long time, so I'm afraid that I must come off as pretty strange to a lot of people, because perhaps I haven't quite gotten familiar with "codes of conduct" in the virtual world, and all the different ways to twist a conversation to get the most out of it. I probably say way too much sometimes and way to little other times... but I think that I mainly behave pretty all right, at least I'm not rude to people or offensive in the way I speak (I hope).
I think getting to know people like this has both positive and negative aspects. Of course, there are some nutjobs out there and people's reasons for chatting can be very different, some honest and some a bit less than honest...And of course, the people who for some odd reason have gotten it into their heads that they can say and do anything and excuse their behavior by the fact that they're just expressing their opinion - or worse: those who behave like morons and simply don't care, in fact they go online in purpose to blow off some steam and be agressive and abusive to people. Those can really be hard to spot, and sadly enough they often manage to make you feel bad - even though it's not real face-to-face insults...
I think I'm getting much better at sorting that out though, since I get more experience every day. But still, it can be difficult to know just what the people you're talking to are thinking or feeling, because after all, all you have to go on is what they are typing! You don't see their faces or body language, and that's what makes up a whole lot of normal conversations. I think that's mainly the difference I see in myself on one hand and more experienced chatters on the other. Those old-timers have a better way of expressing the fullness of what they're trying to communicate just by typing. I guess I have a lot to learn there. In the meantime, I'm just going to continue having fun!

WOW this post ended up as a long one! -Well that's me, talky talky talky... I'll try to refrain from these huge posts in the future unless I really have something important to say. -I promise!