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Posted by special_k on March 25, 2006, at 20:52:23
i was just wondering. i'm sorry i can be a bitch sometimes. i think i'm alright and then i'm not and then i am and then i'm not. sometimes i feel like a cat been let out of a bag and sometimes i'm grateful and sometimes i'm all claws. i'm sorry :-( i'd change it if i could i wish i could.
have you been busy? i worry you will get sick of us. that you have had enough of us really. and you are trying to extract yourself. have you been busy more often lately over the last year or six months or so or whatever... are you trying to extract yourself? i can't tell... but i worry about that. that you get fed up / pissed off with us and you just want to leave us to it :-(
or maybe you tremble sometimes cause people get so upset. and maybe you worry everytime or sometimes when people go off that it will just keep escalating keep escalating and that this just might be the conflict that blows the boards apart. maybe you do.
or maybe you don't. cause it has happened a lot before. and maybe while it feels that way to a lot of us here... that this could be the conflict that blows everything apart... maybe you know better. and it really doesn't get to you. or maybe you kinda wish people would just bugger off. and if things blew up then at least you wouldn't have to do this anymore.
i'm sorry i'm sick. i wish i wasn't. so i could be a better person. to babblers in general. i'm sorry. you are still around? i hope so. please don't go away :-( i'm sorry i'm so messed up :-( i wish you could babble with us more. you used to do that a bit more. i think. or mayb eonly after a conflict. i do wonder sometimes if that is part of (unconcsiously) why there is conflict sometimes. so you come back. there are cases reported of a guy with split brain trying to beat up his wife with one hand and trying to protect her with the other. controversy over that... but still. i guess ya don't need a split brain to feel conflicted. why does it have to be that way? i sorry :-( and i sorry the boards seem to do that sometimes :-(
i wonder how you feel about the boards. they didn't start like this... but they evolved into something huh. i wonder how you feel about hte boards. maybe you feel conflicted too. sometimes you like em and sometimes they drive you nuts. or maybe you don't feel very strongly either way. maybe sometimes they are a bit of a bother and sometimes you get a bit of a smile. or something.
i think it is impossible for us to know. sorry to go on :-( but i wish you would come back. you used to post about what you were reading sometimes and stuff like that. that was cool. sorry.
Posted by Deneb on March 25, 2006, at 23:56:50
In reply to are you alright dr-bob?, posted by special_k on March 25, 2006, at 20:52:23
I don't think Dr. Bob is fed up with us. I think he is more like us than we think. Do you think other Babblers are fed up? If not, I don't think Dr. Bob would be fed up.
Here's some evidence that Dr. Bob is not fed up.
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20060225/msgs/614133.html
I'm sorry about not being able to reply promptly to everyone. Please don't take it personally. It doesn't mean you're just a drop in the bucket or I'm not interested. I have warm feelings for everyone who posts, because everyone who posts helps the community by contributing their unique voice.
Bob
I think Dr. Bob likes us. I think Dr. Bob finds us interesting.
Deneb*
Posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 1:44:49
In reply to Re: are you alright dr-bob? » special_k, posted by Deneb on March 25, 2006, at 23:56:50
Er... What sort of medication are you on? I think I need to get me some of that (I'm serious)...
Posted by Dinah on March 26, 2006, at 2:10:44
In reply to are you alright dr-bob?, posted by special_k on March 25, 2006, at 20:52:23
Well, he's up in the middle of the night administrating, instead of sleeping. :)
Posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 2:14:50
In reply to Re: are you alright dr-bob? » special_k, posted by Dinah on March 26, 2006, at 2:10:44
:-)
and you are up in the middle of the night talking to me :-)you know... i think i am more out of synch with you guys being in aussie. maybe because i am an evening person and not a morning person. you guys seem to go to sleep about 2pm. and that isn't so good :-(
are you okay? thanks for talking to me. i've been all funny over the last week or so...
((((dinah)))))
Posted by Dinah on March 26, 2006, at 2:22:27
In reply to Re: are you alright dr-bob? » Dinah, posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 2:14:50
I was up working. I got involved in what I was doing and lost track of time. I'm just decompressing before heading off to bed. I'll pay tomorrow for not paying attention to bedtime tonight.
So what time is it there?
Posted by Dr. Bob on March 26, 2006, at 2:30:03
In reply to are you alright dr-bob?, posted by special_k on March 25, 2006, at 20:52:23
> sometimes i feel like a cat been let out of a bag and sometimes i'm grateful and sometimes i'm all claws. i'm sorry :-( i'd change it if i could i wish i could.
Thanks, but it would be understandable for that to be an emotional time for the cat, and for her to take some time to find her way.
> have you been busy? i worry you will get sick of us. that you have had enough of us really. and you are trying to extract yourself.
I was in fact busy last week, sorry about being around less. It's not that I'm sick of anyone.
Also, think of it not as me extracting myself, but as you having more independence?
> the boards ... didn't start like this... but they evolved into something huh.
They sure did! :-)
Bob
Posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 3:27:21
In reply to Re: are you alright dr-bob? » special_k, posted by Dinah on March 26, 2006, at 2:22:27
> So what time is it there?
the time is quarter past 8pm on Sunday.
i think you go... dammit. tis hard for me 'cause my math thing... i think i'm 16 hrs ahead. not sure what time zone... maybe toronto? so... (and this could contradict what i just said)
but i think...
2pm for me is 10pm in toronto.
and 2am for me is 9am the previous day for you.
so...all i know is if i should be asleep its ok to ring people and when i should be awake it isn't. in the sense that i don't usually get up till 10 am... and then i need to go to work till at least 2pm lol.
Posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 3:31:42
In reply to Re: a cat, posted by Dr. Bob on March 26, 2006, at 2:30:03
> Thanks, but it would be understandable for that to be an emotional time for the cat, and for her to take some time to find her way.
yeah. thanks. i'm still sorry though. i wish i wasn't like that. i hope i get better. i hope i do. i think i will. but maybe up and down a bit. but more ok than not ok. i hope.
> I was in fact busy last week, sorry about being around less. It's not that I'm sick of anyone.its ok. sorry i get panicky bout that sometimes. i used to just shut up about worrying mostly. maybe i didn't worry as much. had more faith etc.
> Also, think of it not as me extracting myself, but as you having more independence?er... no that doesn't really work for me sorry. how do ya mean more independence anyways? i mean... we still get blocked and stuff lol. but i guess it is more independence for you...
> > the boards ... didn't start like this... but they evolved into something huh.
> They sure did! :-)yeah.
:-)
thank you.
Posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 5:15:42
In reply to Re: a cat » Dr. Bob, posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 3:31:42
> > Also, think of it not as me extracting myself, but as you having more independence?
> er... no that doesn't really work for me sorry. how do ya mean more independence anyways? i mean... we still get blocked and stuff lol. but i guess it is more independence for you...because... yeah moderators can come to deal with the blocking decisions more and more over time. but you used to post more to admin. ask us questions and stuff. tell us what you were reading and thinking about and stuff. and i guess it wasn't really part of the moderator role... it could be apart from the moderator role. but...
why can't you stay around and keep doing that? i mean i get that you can't be here forever... but i think we would like it if you could stay around and do that even if over time you don't do blockings and warnings anymore because the deputies were doing that.
but do you want to stop posting altogether? is that kind of the aim. and it is extracting yourself. 'cause it will hurt people here. it will. but then i get that sometimes peoples needs can conflict. and i guess you must spend a lot of time here really. and we are lucky that you have been around so much. and have posted stuff like that sometimes. but i wish you would stay around and weren't thinking of leaving :-(
Posted by Deneb on March 26, 2006, at 16:33:08
In reply to Re: a cat » Dr. Bob, posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 3:31:42
Dr. Bob responded to your fears. :-)
You're so lucky.
I think Dr. Bob takes you seriously. I'm not sure Dr. Bob takes me seriously. I wonder if maybe he thinks I'm childish sometimes.
I should act more mature. Then maybe Dr. Bob will respond to me more.
Then again, maybe no matter how many times Dr. Bob replies to me I won't be satisfied.
Hmmm....on second thought, Dr. Bob does reply to me. I think he notices me. I think I post often enough that he notices me.
((((Bob))))
Deneb*
Posted by special_k on March 28, 2006, at 10:45:58
In reply to Re: a cat » special_k, posted by Deneb on March 26, 2006, at 16:33:08
> I think Dr. Bob takes you seriously.
I think he takes us all seriously.
> I wonder if maybe he thinks I'm childish sometimes.
I don't think you are. I think you are trying to be honest with your feelings. And I think that that is a good thing. Maybe other people feel similarly but they are too embarrased / ashamed / afraid / whatever to speak up.
Posted by special_k on March 29, 2006, at 4:04:14
In reply to Re: a cat » special_k, posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 5:15:42
> how do ya mean more independence anyways?
oh. because we find our own way instead of worrying about you. whether you are busy or whether you are sick of us or whatever.
i know it isn't supposed to be about you. but to a lot of us here you are an important part of things.
and people worrying about you... maybe that is why you want to get away :-(
not that it is supposed to matter :-( but it does :-(
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