At Last…
Posted on January 22, 2003 by Christine | 10 Comments
Guess what I finally did tonight? I watched the final episode of the last Amazing Race! Yeah, yeah … it aired a month ago and it has been sitting on the Tivo waiting for me. I was so tired earlier, worn out from the new temp job where I’ve been working hard – plus I have to leave the house by 7am! Ugh. Not good when you’re used to staying up until 1 or 2 in the morning!
I don’t have a lot to say about the final leg other than this – if Flo had said one more time “I want to quit” then I would have to hunt her down and kick her ass. If you’re going to quit, don’t wait until it’s down to the final 3. You could have quit earlier and given someone else a chance. Zack truly carried her weight in that race, and she was such a twit it was amazing.
The winner of the Amazing Race got a million dollars. There are other races though – or rather contests – where the stakes aren’t so high, and 24 hours after finding out who the finalists are for the Bloggies, now I’m finding all sorts of chaos, discord, and “you cheated” in the Blogosphere. Hello? People? As absolutely thrilled that I am to be up for a Bloggie … it’s a Bloggie. You know what? I bet there are 10,000 blogs out there run by people that don’t know the Bloggies exist. Remember that whole “Inner Circle Syndrome” thing I talked about a few weeks ago? One of my points that got lost in the shuffle was that there are circles. I have my close personal circle of friends, then the circle outside of that one made of people I talk to but that may not know the me quite as well, then it builds from circle to circle, growing larger & larger – eventually I hit a circle of blogs that I’m just a Blurker on, and then finally there are the sites that I don’t even know about. The Bloggies are a small measure in a vast universe. I realize this. I told Mike last night that I won already, because I’m just that happy to be in the finals. If I don’t win my category, that’s ok. (By the way, check out his Big Pink Cookie photo…) There isn’t a million dollars at stake – this isn’t the Amazing Race. This is the blog world. I love the friends I have met through my blog and the people I haven’t met yet but will someday. Meanwhile, I will go on blogging.
It’s the Bloggies. It’s not worth a scandal, and I hope the people that are turning it in to one will stop instead of causing more people more pain. Otherwise, it’s time to call in the Spork Posse!
UPDATED: I wrote this post after getting a phone call and reading three blog posts. Then I discovered all sorts of things going on as I started reading my daily reads. Wow. Damn.
Let me just say it again – I have a life outside of this website. We all do. It brings me a lot of joy, I won’t deny it. If I let it, it has the power to bring me a lot of pain. But … I don’t want to do that. I’m just going to focus on the many things that make me happy about it – that would be YOU, the people reading it – and the chance to say what I want when I want to say it. Awards, no awards, nothing is going to change here for me.
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January 22nd, 2003 @ 11:40 pm
right on, sistah! isn’t it like 1 guy sorting through hundreds (or thousands) of blogs? that’s a tough job… especially when everyone’s looking at you wondering what the heck you’re doing and when the deadline’s not met, you’re to blame. what is up with that? if they think it’s a scandal, a cheat, did they help out any? or are they just all bitter that their nominations didn’t show up in the list?
anyway, spork posse unites! and where is that button again? i wanna put it up on my site!
January 22nd, 2003 @ 11:41 pm
Spork Posse’s already on it, yo. Check it out.
January 22nd, 2003 @ 11:51 pm
I think one post from the owner on where they’re out and how they got there would do a world of good. When something gets this big, there’s bound to be checks and balances — as I’ve stated here. That’s just human nature. That so many great, and 100%-deserving sites, have got caught up in the cross-fire is very unfortunate though. It’s cliché, but “no one wins”.
January 22nd, 2003 @ 11:52 pm
out=at (I’m not doing so good at the typing thing today.)
January 23rd, 2003 @ 6:58 am
I couldn’t agree with you more, Christine, but I voted for ya anyway cause I love you so
January 23rd, 2003 @ 8:12 am
Every time I read “Bloggies” I add “Porn Ring” to the end of it. It’s the only thing making all the hate entries I’m stumbling upon interesting. Though I still feel like I’m being spit in the face everytime someone says “All those nominees SUCK cause they aren’t the people *I* wanted nominated”. I’m tempted to make a button – if you think I don’t deserve my bloggie nomination, come tell me to my face… only catchier and perhaps with a boobie picture. Cause y’know, love the bloggies, but not more than I love all the big pink cookies.
January 23rd, 2003 @ 1:06 pm
I sort of feel that way, too, Cis (and congrats on your nomination!). And the thing is…I didn’t even DO anything to get people to nominate my webring…I almost fell off my chair when I saw it there! So it DOES bother me to read about how all the nominees supposedly *suck*.
I agree with Christine…I feel that in way, I’ve already won, just by being nominated. If I win, cool, but if I don’t, it won’t be the end of the world.
Just ignore the naysayers and have fun with it!
January 23rd, 2003 @ 3:42 pm
Congrats Christine. You truly deserve the recognition darlin.
January 24th, 2003 @ 4:54 pm
You know, this is like the fifth place that I’ve read about bloggers who have been told they have cheated, the Bloggies are fixed, nyah, nyah, nyah. On some of the new blogs I have visited (from the Bloggies list, I might add), I’ve only seen the bloggers complaining about getting slammed, but not any slammers. Actually, all the commenters seem really supportive. Are these “bad” people emailing you folks personally or what? I think you have the right attitude, but I’m wondering if all this hub-bub is being made up in the “blogosphere,” cause I’m just not seeing it.
By the way, congratulations to you. A little recognition is nice once in a while.
January 23rd, 2003 @ 12:38 am
I’d like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company
Is it right or wrong Try to find a place We can all belong Be as one Try to get on by If we unify We should really try All this time Spinning round and round Made the same mistakes That we’ve always found Surely now We could move along Make a better w…