5 April 2001
Last year: My first reaction was Please, oh merciful Mother, no.
Okay, so unless my friends are better liars than I think they are, my list of suspects for the Mystery Messager has been pretty much exhausted. K.T. and Ashby were both convincing when they said it wasn't them. (Though Ashby admitted it sounded exactly like a stunt he would've pulled, so I feel better for making him my primary suspect.) Neither Braz nor Kris had read my journal yet when I got the first message. I know Matt's a good liar, but not that good. Jeff hasn't yet seen All Your Base. (Well, he hadn't when I got the first message. I hope he's seen it now, since I sent him a link.)
There's only a few people left that I haven't checked out, but I'm starting to wonder if it's someone I don't actually know... Or maybe several people. I got the first message yesterday morning around 9, and another was sent this morning at 5:15. (Thank goodness I leave the phone off when I go to bed.) Jeff's convinced that it's Karen, but I'm pretty sure it's not.
Karen likes to be recognized when she's playing pranks. For instance - to stick with the phone message theme - I told her yesterday that I was going to be in a meeting around 3 or so, and she was welcome to send me a message then, to entertain me.
Well, the meeting was cancelled. This irritated me to no end, because it had already been moved, and I'm supposed to get some important information in that meeting. So I was grumpily playing Bejeweled when my phone beeped. When I read the message, it said,
| (Gris) A haiku for you: Computer go boom / Baa baa go the burning sheep / Tourists everywhere ^_^ |
I chuckled and felt better, and went on playing Bejeweled. Not two minutes later, the phone beeped again, this time to say:
| When it rains, why don't sheep shrink? |
I laughed again, and sent Karen an e-mail thanking her for the messages. She and I started a flurry of short e-mail messages, and I explained that my meeting had been cancelled. But she had already scoured the web for sheep jokes that could be condensed into 100 characters or less. As the e-mail flew, my phone kept up a steady beeping. A sampling:
| Q. What do U call a sheep w/o legs? A. A cloud. What did 1 sheep say to the other sheep? "After ewe." Q. Why do Scotsmen wear kilts? A. 'Cos, lassie, a sheep kin' hear a zipper fra' a mile away! |
There were more. Something like 10 or so in all. It was immensely cheering, though I have to say I'm glad I wasn't actually in the meeting when I got hit with that barrage... Someone remind me to turn the phone's beeper off if I take it into a meeting.
Word of the Day:
infotainment - a television program that presents information in a manner intended to be entertaining
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