Serial Adders and new friends

For those of you in LJ land who are adding journals to their flists just for the hell of it.

If I don't know you, and I don't recognize you from a community, and you aren't writing in english, chances are, I don't want to be on your flist. And I don't like being padding for other people's flists, either.

So please bypass me and don't add my name, even if we share 'common interests'. Chances are, I'll rarely talk about them in a way that would interest a stranger, and if I get too many 'strangers' on my flist, I will go friends only (and I'll probably block your journal as well).

For those of you I do know from other places, or have seen me elsewhere and want to actually be interactive friends, or if I end up striking up an interesting conversation with you that proves to add interest in continuing conversations later, feel free to 'peep' at me here on this post, so that I know you added me. Let me know where I know you from, too. Chances are, I'll add you back.

(to be edited later so that it stays at the top of my LJ)

If Derek were steampunk

He'd be a happy man.

:)

And now for my whiny emo bitchfest post.

I'm frustrated. Why?

I've been in the pool all of 6 times this year.

Why?

Because when it isn't full of families and screaming kids, it's locked for 'invisible maintenance' (IE: Supposedly they're Doing Something to it, but there's no one there, and it stays Mysteriously Locked until 'family time' rolls around in the afternoon).

I'm at the point of wanting to strangle everyone in the pool (why aren't you using the pool in the back where your apartments are located, folks? You know, the bigger one that's meant for the kids and families? The one right next to your two, three and four bedroom apartments...unlike the single and two room ones up front where I am and most of the residents are single adults and couples?), and taking a bat to the office management.

Yes, I'm *that* frustrated. For the past three weeks, whenever the pool has been clear of said kids, and I've gotten dressed to swim and walked over, the pool has been locked up. Every Single Time.

I'm just hoping once school starts, I'll have a better chance at it before it gets too cold to swim.

And yes, I realize I sound like a selfish, spoiled, bratty little bitch, but when last year I didn't have this problem, and that pool is the only free and non-heat stroke inducing exercise I can do right now, and I've been dealing with this for two months...I'm getting just a LITTLE peeved.

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