Sometimes phrases are funny when you take them out of context…

“Researchers found, for instance, that women preferred the smell of symmetrical men, but only during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle.” -Jonah Lehrer, New Yorker

“A ham-shaped encampment of poor cottages.” -James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• May 27, 2012 / Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Saturday, May 26, 2012
• May 25, 2012 / Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Thursday, May 24, 2012
• May 22, 2012 / Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Monday, May 21, 2012

trextrying:

T-Rex Trying to Make a Move While Watching a Movie…

#TRexTrying

nevver:

Ampersand wearing a fez

(via lmaogtfo)

connormccleary:

What I’m currently reading.

Apparently when I lend things to Connor, he takes pretty pictures of them.

I’m gathering info for the centre spread of the next Take 5 (ACP alumni magazine).

I’d like: name, where you are now, what you’re doing there, your ACP class #

[very incomplete list; it’s a huge mess, I know]

Times Colonist
Mike Devlin, arts writer, #

Monday Magazine

Victoria News

Boulevard

Nexus

The Martlet
Erin Ball, editor in chief, 38

The Q/The Zone
Chris Loran, ranger/roadie, #
Clorisa Simpson, ranger, 39
Allie Bowman, promotion coordinator, 37

KOOL/CFAX
Ashley O’Neill, board op, 39

Jack/Ocean

CBC

CFUV

Village 900
Earle Thompson

CTV (formerly A Channel)
Steve Olafson
Lisa Perry
Jordy Moughtin

CHEK

Shaw TV

University of Victoria

Camosun College
Lois Fernyhough
Alison Hogan

[lots of people have started their own companies…]

Gamut Productions
David Malysheff, director of photography, #

Innovate Imageworks
Dave Wallace, videographer, 38

[lots of people are doing independent design work, or freelance work…]

Lee Gabel, design & visual effects, 1992

Shine*Ola Communications
Alice Bacon, creative director, #

Courtney Clarke, photography, #

[out-of-town-ers]

Fort McMurray Today (Fort McMurray, BC)
Amanda Richardson, reporter, 38

Rogers (radio) (Fort McMurray, BC)
Matt Williams, announcer, 2008/35

Mountain FM (Castlegar, BC)
Gabrielle Kind, morning show host/promotions coordinator, 38

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Heliotrope

Portmanteau

Whilst

Repose

I love communication and I am very interested in how it works, and how people use the tools available to them. These tools keep on multiplying: from face-to-face, to phones (but do you leave a message if it goes to voicemail? do you even HAVE voicemail?), to e-mails (…and people often have numerous e-mail addresses), to text messages, to IM-ing (Skype, MSN, Facebook chat, Gmail chat, etc), to video time (ex Skype), to Facebook walls/timeline, to Facebook messages, to tweets, to DMs on Twitter, and so on.

The problem with having so many ways of reaching a single person is that people use the tools in different ways, which means that I may, for example, expect them to reply to tweets as quickly as I do, and they may, for example, assume that contacting me via Facebook message is a good way of getting in touch, when neither of those things is the case.

Perhaps we all need to create a ‘hierarchy of ways to contact me,’ a list of the fastest ways of guaranteeing a response, and the things that you really shouldn’t do.

My list would look something like this:

BEST WAYS OF CONTACTING ME

• tweet me (@rosamundcotton); DMs also work
• text me (but seriously, just tweet me. I get tweets sent to my phone. except if I am at home there is no guarantee that I have my phone next to me, so tweeting is better because if I don’t have my phone, I will have my email open.)
• write on my Facebook timeline (formerly my wall… durr)
• Facebook message IF I AM ONLINE (therefore it’s basically IM-ing; if I don’t reply, expect that I didn’t see your message and may not respond for a week)

THESE WAYS WILL WORK. BUT SERIOUSLY WHY CAN’T YOU JUST TWEET ME

• e-mail (meril.lupin@gmail.com or rose.e.jang@gmail.com)
• call me (on my cell phone; or technically calling my house will work too because my mom will tell me that someone left a message for me, and I will then get back to you sometime in the next 3 days or so, i.e. after she has reminded me 3 times that someone left me a voicemail)
• Facebook message (but I will probably take a week to respond to you)

BAD WAYS OF GETTING IN TOUCH. SERIOUSLY, GET A FLIPPING TWITTER ACCOUNT

• leaving a voicemail on my cell phone (seriously, there’s something wrong with it)
• I wish Facebook message would just die, but it’s so essential now that I WILL reply EVENTUALLY… :\

CONCLUSION

I love Twitter. I also love(/hate) Facebook. I also love email. But all for different reasons.

Facebook is great for sharing interesting links with ALL YOUR FRIENDS, but not great if you want me to take immediate action on something. Ditto for email.

If you want to tell me something or get an immediate reply, Twitter is the way to go.