{"id":1516,"date":"2007-07-12T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T10:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2007-07-12T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T10:25:14","slug":"aim-statuses-i-have-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1516","title":{"rendered":"AIM statuses I have known."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m settling into my new office here on campus, and it&#8217;s freaking amazing.  Now, of course, my mind is turning to optimizing my workflow here in this new environment, and I&#8217;m contemplating using AIM as an interoffice communications tool.  iChat is surprisingly evolving into a real staple of my day, much faster and friendlier than email, not to mention having the potential to reflect my general state of mind and availability.<br \/>\nThat said, I now need to prune down my list of status options that I&#8217;d been plunking into iChat while in thesis mode.  Rather than just whisk them off to oblivion, I thought I&#8217;d share some of them with you.<br \/>\n<b>Available Messages<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bang bang, hammer hammer<\/li>\n<li>Writing like a mad bastard<\/li>\n<li>The Venn diagram of my geekiness is huge.<\/li>\n<li>zomg coffee gooooood<\/li>\n<li>Storytelling.<\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous<\/li>\n<li>NINJAS IN SPACE<\/li>\n<li>get back jojo<\/li>\n<li>gambit.mit.edu<\/li>\n<li>yay, work time<\/li>\n<li>sweating like a stuck pig<\/li>\n<li>teh tired<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t like Mondays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Away Messages<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clients only, please<\/li>\n<li>Artsy-fartsy<\/li>\n<li>Car wrestling.  Be right back.<\/li>\n<li>zomg zzzzzzzzzzz<\/li>\n<li>BANG! BANG! HAMMER! HAMMER!<\/li>\n<li>Just playin&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Fearing the crow of the cockadoodletron.<\/li>\n<li>Foraging for sustenance<\/li>\n<li>Rub-a-dub dub<\/li>\n<li>The Jack Bauer Power Hour<\/li>\n<li>Henry Jenkins: Seedy Fringe Theorist.<\/li>\n<li>Cranky<\/li>\n<li>Not cranky!<\/li>\n<li>Meeting<\/li>\n<li>Rollin&#8217; with Clooney<\/li>\n<li>Working<\/li>\n<li>o god it&#8217;s morning<\/li>\n<li>Mondays need to die<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Thesis-Related Away Messages<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BACK, HELL-THESIS, BACK!<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 9,192<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 9,481<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 10,161<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 13,603<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 17,897<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 20,979<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 22,944<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 23,190<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 24,302<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 26,855<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 28,129<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 28,172 or 19,789&#8230;?<\/li>\n<li>THESIS BAD. HATE LIVING.\n<li>\n<li>Dante must&#8217;ve gone to MIT<\/li>\n<li>Birthing Athena.<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 40,649<\/li>\n<li>THESIS SCORE: 44,558<\/li>\n<li>THESIS APPROVED!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I love about that list of thesis-related away messages is how it serves as a mile-high diary of the process: plodding away, working in reasonably small increments, and then having the total panic attack of Henry and William&#8217;s intervention, followed by the abrupt addition of an additional 30% of new content&#8230;  Heh.  I thought I had another one in there to the tune of &#8220;Committee tested, thesis approved!&#8221;, but I suppose it fell by the wayside already.<br \/>\nAll right.  Back to work-work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m settling into my new office here on campus, and it&#8217;s freaking amazing. 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