Away Messages
| Created: April 5, 2005 |
Last modified: May 3, 2005 |
I'm out running around... maybe even literally. bbl.
brb.
I am professor chaos! MWAH HA HA HA HA.
Acquiring my daily dose of food poisoning from Ciao Hall.
gone to class
G*****
Gone to ULTIMATE FRISBEE practice. WOOT!,and Gone to work at Best Buy.
I'm busy crafting my body into the ultimate Ultimate Frisbee playing machine. At the gym.
Surprisingly, I'm here. Right here. As in sitting at my desk. The problem though is that I'm not paying attention to the computer, which is why an away message is being used. If you need to get my attention while I am right here, you can try to IM me, but I probably won't see it for a long while. The quickest and surest way would be to call the dorm phone at (703)993-5993. It'll surprise the hell out of me, but go for it.
What I like about this away message is how calling my room would in fact surprise the hell out of me. I don't think anyone has taken me up on this for the sake of calling me, but I encourage it.
Get to work, you! Stop that procrastinating!
Making the required nightly pilgrimage to Ike's.
The reason I had this goal was because early in the semester, I started accumulating cups from Ike's after not having finished them, and I eventually figured out that they make for a nice stack at the corner behind the door (if that makes any sense), and thus the goal came about to make it reach the ceiling. So there's the story.
I'm on the phone, brb.
Procrastinate NOW!
Rubber Duckie...wait, shower, n/m
Sleeping off the effects of "awakeness".
There exist away messages I have used maybe once that I just happened to have saved, and there are some which may have had their use more than once but I care not to put them here. Either way, I think that I have left enough here for you to read, as if you didn't figure that out by actually making it all the way down here.
Sometimes, I actually am out for a jog when I use this, but more often than
not, I put this up when I have no idea when I'm going to be back. So, this is my
"I have no idea when I'm getting back, so just call me if you need me" away
message.
I might be right back, but then again, I've been
known to wander off. This means that I meant to be back within 10 minutes, and
if I'm not back within there, there's no knowing how long I'll be
away.
But really, I'm teaching people chaos. Chaos theory that
is.
Well, this has an evil laugh, so that sort of makes up for how terrible
this one is. It's to the point, otherwise, in that I do actually teach quite a
number of people chaos theory, or at least help them with the homework
assignments.
This one is a reference to how many people, myself included, believe that the food served at ciao hall is bad, and not just bad, but bad for you. If you ever find yourself having to eat there, you may want to make available some time in the hour proceeding your visit to ciao to make a run to the bathroom. Of course, even knowing this, I still go back, because I know that they always have pizza; whether it be good pizza or bad pizza, that's another question. (On a complete side note which is straying from the topic at hand, I just want to point out that going to Ciao hall is like a surprise every time I go, just because I never know what options will be there and which of those options will actually be edible, even though they claim all of it is.)
This one is terrible. I just wan't creative, as I needed to quickly say that I'm at class and am probably unreachable by phone when this is up. I would give this props for being short and to the point, but since it isn't immediately obvious that people shouldn't call me when I have this message up lest they face my voice mail message on my cell phone, it can't be considered to the point. So thus, a rating of terrible.(If you have suggestions for a better one, I'd like to know.)
One of my favorites. If you don't know what the stars are censoring, the word is "gaming", which is also the name I have for this away message on my computer. The irony, though, is that whenever I read this, I think of it as being "G star star star star star", which takes a lot longer to thing than it would if it was merely "gaming". The occasions I will use this are when I'm playing Starcraft:Broodwars, and I can play it for hours on end, so don't leave me an away message saying you need to talk to me, because I won't be able to talk to you for possibly hours.
These two are of a series of away messages that I think aren't that great, but they're all named "gone to _______" with the blank being whereever it is I'm going. The ones not included in this series that probably should have been are "gone to class" (which is merely named "class" on my computer), "ciao hall", and "Ike's". The quality of these away messages varies from somewhat witty to absolutely terrible.
I particularly enjoy the usage of "ultimate" twice in a row and "machine" in this sentence. Also, I like how "at the gym" is simultaneously a part of and not a part of the sentence before. Semantics aside, this is one of my more favored away messages.
I didn't explain in the away message why it was I wasn't able to hear IMs, but the reason is this: I turned off their sound. When I got to college, I walked down the hall once, and could hear the faimilar IM chime coming from a variety of rooms, and hearing how annoying that was, I decided that I should turn them off. Also, AIM's noises can interrupt movies and songs, so that's another reason I turned them off.
I'm sure quite a number of people have seen this one and wondered, "Is he talking to me?" The answer is yes and no. I wrote this for myself so that when I would look at the screen, I would see my computer saying to me "Get to work, you! Stop that procrastinating!" and I would therefore be motivated to continue working. Now, if you saw this and thought, "he's obviously talking to me," then maybe I am talking to you, and you should get back to work. So, feel free to interpret this one however you want. Just know that the title of this one is "homework" for the reasons listed above.
Yes, it is in fact required that all students in the Park, and some not in the Park, must go to get food at the late night diner in Eisenhower. Actually, it isn't required, but for those of us working on making the stack of cups reach the ceiling by the end of the semester, it is important to go every night. Otherwise, we may not reach our goal. And I'm sure that I'm the only one who has this goal for the semester.
The same rule applies as the one for brb in that if I'm not back in 10 minutes or whatever time I may specify, then you shouldn't expect me to come back for a while. I'm not good enough at multi-tasking to be able to have phone and IM conversations both be semi-intelligent at the same time, so thus the need for the away message.
This is such a great oxymoron. I don't think I've used it in a while, and I'm not sure I'll be using it anytime soon. But come finals week, we'll see...
I never did get around to searching for the lyrics for the rest of the song, so instead, I broke it off like this in a very pathetic form. If I had the lyrics, it'd be better, but since I leave so much out, this away message gets a thumbs down.
My favorite, not because of the idea that being awake is something which is to be slept off like alcohol, but moreso because I have it named as "sleepign", which seems like a massively cool word. The away message is quite awesome by itself, though.