Twitter + Yelp = Twelp
Ahhhh… the glorious grainy and artifact filled quality of my Point & Shoot camera on high ISO setting in the dark…
We went to the Yelp Event at Table 1280 last night - good times - although I didn’t get to see some of you people that read our blog AND live in Atlanta… Gabrielle! 
But still, Leah and I had a good time. Different from other events, we didn’t really meet too many new people - but definitely hung out with the ones we already know. It’s just been too long since the last event for us so it was nice to hangout and catch up. Or, like me, talk and get to know the people I had already met.
Did I mention that we’re on Twitter?
So. A small group of us from Yelp are connected on Twitter and it’s quite awesome. Earlier attempts at using Twitter actually sucked - since it was all far removed strangers that I was ‘following’ - but now that it’s good acquaintances/friends - it’s like an on/off chatroom all day long. With other random people dropping in. Why use twitter? How do you use it? I don’t know. But it’s not… it’s not really a “People are interested in hearing what I say!” sort of endeavor - more like… you say all of those side comments of random/evil/funny thoughts that you would say to your co-workers/cubicle-mates during the day - to your Twitter friends.
And THAT’s what makes it worthwhile - at least for us in our group. I mean, sure there are tons of people who have figured out how to effectively use twitter as a marketing medium - but I haven’t, aside from the every so often post of “blah blah blah [insert something witty] and then Link to a Blog post at LeahAndMark.com”
Up above? One of the foods handed out last night - fried risotto balls and blurry in the background, three of our Twelp friends. DavidAtlanta! Laurens33! & JPCorpus! (He came up with the name Twelp)
KatieW and I ganged up on Lauren.
Naoya and Shelli were there too! Yes. He is totally as cool as he looks in this picture. I believe we’re having brunch with them this weekend, or lunch, or some other excuse for drinks and a meal. Awesome.
A short Rant on UoP again (University of Phoenix.) So this week, I haven’t really ‘logged into’ the class forums and posted for either participation points, or to communicate with my team. I did tonight. But at some point, one of my team members posted:
I emailed Leo and Mark last night. I see that Mark has responded. Thank God. Still haven’t heard from Leo. Hopefully he’s ok and still part of the team. If he doesn’t check in one of us is going to have to do his part.
Now I admit, this may have just hit me wrong and I’m just being jerkish about the whole thing. (While staying at a hostel in Pt. Loma/San Diego, I met a Turkish guy born in Germany… well, those two things mixed together somehow - so me and my friend Amy started calling him Gerkish! (Jerkish)) But still. Really? Did she really have to say ‘Thank God’ - because it’s only Friday - in fact, it wasn’t even Friday night when she posted that. The team assignment (all of them) always consist of a 700-1,000 word paper. Broken in pieces + editing that’s like 300-400 words per person. I can write that without trying. I can write that in my sleep. I can write that in my sleep, underwater and still get all points for the freaking paper. (Trust me - I’ve gone on and on in my LJ quite often on the subject of way too dumb classmates and their embarassing writing skills - and even worse - we STILL get A’s on all of our team papers - and on my own individual assignments.)
Forget it. I’ll stop myself right here and just be passive aggressive and from this point on I’ll make sure that I NEVER post to the team forum UNTIL Friday night - just annoy them. Radio Silence from Tuesday to Friday night.
The Insides and more Fire
We have the weekend to conquer.
