Published September 30, 2008 | 
Online it’s worse, I know. When you can’t hear tone or inflection. See body language. Even an eyeroll smiley isn’t always as effective (though fun). And does a yawning smiley mean “I’m bored.” or “I’m tired.” ????? 
I’ve learned lots of new phrases over the past year. Troll. Wank. Snark. I admit I still don’t “get” text-speak and probably never will. I took both shorthand and speedwriting. The point is to make words shorter and flow faster. If it uses the same number of characters (or more???), what’s the damn point? (it’s a rhetorical question. try and answer it and I may get ‘snarky’ on you) 
written: 9/23/08
transcribed and edited: sometime later 
To the person who keeps commenting on this post: Your comments make no sense and your link goes to sex related sites. Comments on this blog are moderated and your email has been sent to spam filters. Please stop trying to comment here. The comments will be removed.
Published September 30, 2008 | I guess most people know by now that I have a redhead’s temper (some of you know better than others).
Contrary to what it may seem, it’s rarely aimed at a particular person, but generally at an attitude, action or just plain stupidity. Guess it’s no secret that I don’t tolerate ignorance well.
Feel free to read, ignore, respond or rant away yourselves. Disagree if you like, but don’t expect to turn anything here into a debate. This is just my place to blow off steam.
Published September 18, 2008 | 
I’m Mattie, the Webmistress for RockSaltJournals.com. I can say “Hello World!” in 6 different languages – programming languages, that is. Yes, I’m a geek who’s also an artist. You can check out some of my art and jewelry in the Art Gallery and some of it will be for sale in the Marketplace. I also have fanart and icons in the Avatar Arena. I have a background in writing as an English Creative Writing major at Texas A & M University (made it to junior year before I had to leave school) as well as in graphic and web design. I spent 5 years as a corporate slave building web sites (well over 2,000 of them) before moving on to the world of contract work. A few of you may know that I was out of work for some time, but that has been remedied with 2 job offers in the same week. Seems I got out of Hell the same day Dean did and started work again the very next day.
I’m a Scorpio, I have 4 tattoos (currently. that’s subject to change ), I’m 5’2″, and a redhead. I’m also a very proud 6th generation Texan. Anything else you want to know, feel free to ask… Dean.
Not much else to say except I hope everyone enjoys the new forum.
(oh, and yes, I’m very, VERY much in love)
