Virgil

I really enjoy lit net. I have so much fun on lit net. There's the literature forums which keep me very busy with reading and writing. The book club when I can, the Shakespeare play of the season, the poetry book club, the Lawrence short story thread, reading people's poetry and ginning insightful comments, not just ooh-that-was-wonderful comments, and when I can writing up something myself. I've been really busy lately and so I must admit I've not really had writing time.

And there are the chat threads. When a core group of people have been together as most of us have, we get to know our foibles and quirks and so we laugh at each other. Of course there are some serious chat and there are the religion threads and those can get your blood energized.

And these blogs are wonderful too. I'm a big kidder, and I love to tweak people and most of the time things are funny and interesting and it brings a smile to my face. And of course the new profile pages are fun, droping by for a quick hello to someone. And I truely get a kick of all the people that stop by and say hello to me. I've kidded Logos that she has so many friends (I think she has almost 200 friends) because they are all sucking up to the moderator. But I think I have the record so far for the most profile page visits. 2763 visits as of this moment, but who's counting. And the social groups are interesting too, though I must say I don't really have the time for them.

So what I want to say is that lit net continuously brings a smile to my face. No really, almost all the time. My wife watches me on the computer and she shakes her head like I'm a weirdo.
"You've got that smile again," she says.
"What?" I ask.
"You've got that smile, that kool aid smile."
"Huh? Kool aid? What do you mean?"
"The kool aid guy. You've got that smile like on the kool aid face."
"I'm just on lit net."
"Kool aid."
"I'm just looking at pictures of Larry the Leprecahn. He's wearing shoes and trying to drive a car."
"Kool aid, kool aid."
"I'm reading Ampoule's poem about answering the door in the nude."
"Kool aid, kool aid."
I'm reading about Sweets America and how she's dicovering America."
"Kool aid, kool aid."
"I'm just talking about Frank Sinatra with Lady Wentworth and Janine."
"Kool aid, kool aid."

*Sigh* See what lit net has done to me. My wife looks at me as if I'm an idiot, a simpleton with a kool aid face. Kool aid for those that don't know is a powder that you mix with water for some sort of sweet drink. Crap actually, but I guess there are people that buy it. Kool aid was made famous when this cult from America mostly I think went down to Jonestown Guyana in South America and over 900 people commited mass suicide by mixing cyanide in kool aid and drinking it. So an expression has cropped up "drinking the kool aid," meaning you will go all the way to suicide for cult. Is lit net a cult? Maybe. For those that don't know what a kool aid face is, here:







Now how many of you right now reading this have a kool aid face on? Come on, admit it.

So this is what I've become, the kool aid man, a grown man with a silly grin on my face and the look of a simpleton.

While I have the opportunity I have to admit I've been delinquent of two blogs I've been meaning to write. One to post pictures of our Chicago vacation of a couple of months ago and another blog of pictures when we met up with Subterranian. I keep forgetting to upload those pictures to photobucket.

Also I might as well say I'll be going on a business trip tomorrow and be gone for the whole week. Last time I couldn't get internet access. Hopefully this time it will be better. If I'm missing in action, then that's what happened. Nonetheless I probably won't have as much time. This is a big test for our project and this is a very important week.