Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Bloggess: An Inspiration

So, Kayla and I heart The Bloggess. She is a major inspiration for this blog and I'd like to share the story of my first true interaction with her.

It happened in July. I was really down for reasons I can't discuss (see about half-way down this post); it was to the point that I was crying at my desk at work (okay so I’m not the manliest). I went to Twitter in search of some solice and discovered that The Bloggess (a.k.a. Jenny Lawson by the way) had just tweeted a link to her most recent post and suddenly I was laughing. I was so grateful that I tweeted The Bloggess:

@OfficiallyMike: "@TheBloggess I'm having like the worst day EVER. At work crying at my desk and then I read one of your posts and I'm laughing. Thank you."

So, I know she's a busy woman and all, but I kind of expected a tweet back. You know, "Thank you" or "Thanks" or just "TY" or maybe just "x". SOMETHING to show thanks for my thanks. Well, I got no tweet back. Being the bitter gay that I am, I tweeted her back a couple days later:

@OfficiallyMike: "@TheBloggess Please follow me so that I can block you. We're in a fight. #bittergay"

Well, this time she tweeted me back:

@TheBloggess: "@OfficiallyMike I'm *already* following you. You are terrible at feuding with me."

Touché.

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UPDATE - Read the discussion between Kayla and I after The Bloggess herself commented on this post.

7 comments:

  1. You're my favorite person that I'm feuding with right now.

    PS. If you need me to stab someone
    i could probably do that.

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  2. I'm pretty sure you just made my year. (I tried to come up with a response that was a little wittier, but I'm too busy hyperventilating.)

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  3. I second that! I keep choking on my coffee because I'm so excited that I forgot how to drink. Not to sound crazy or anything, but you're like our Mother Monster. Lady Gaga, who?

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  4. I'm darn near peeing myself laughing at "please follow me so that i can block you. we're in a fight. #bittergay". It was all hilarious. I heart Jenny, too.

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  5. I'm a total Bloggess addict, too, AND I just found out from your "About" page that you and Kayla are actually LOCAL to me! I feel like I've had a brush with a national celebrity via local celebrities and I'm really kind of thrilled about that. I only wish I had a blog and a Twitter account now so I could get in on the fun. ;-)

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  6. You should create a Twitter and join in on the fun!

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  7. I would love to, but I'm pretty sure I would suck donkey nuts at Twittering/Tweeting, so it's best for everyone if I stay off of it. LOL.

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