:: How to go from hero to jackass in 60 seconds ::

Thursday, October 30, 2003

1. Visit new blog.
2. Develop crush on author.
3. Notice contest involving submission of correct answer to author's question via email; prize is ticket to desirable concert on "Sunday" with blog's author.
4. Arch eyebrows upon seeing that the deadline for the contest is Thursday, and realizing today happens to be Thursday.
5. Hastily whip together answer.
6. Email answer to blog's author.
7. Twiddle thumbs - metaphorically. Try to ignore the specter of failure and humiliation threatening to accompany failure.
8. Receive reply from blog author / contest administrator informing that the answer submitted was both creative and correct. Begin to smugly congratulate self.
9. Continue reading reply to find out that "Sunday" referred to this past Sunday, and "Thursday" referred to one week ago, which anyone glancing at the date for the contest posting would have realized. Contest is over, effort was for naught. Enter public embarrassment.
10. Swivel around in chair, startled to realize the aforementioned specter of failure and humiliation has taken corporeal form as Don Knots.
11. Endure surprisingly vicious taunting from Mr. Knots. Who knew the guy went for the throat, haranguedly-speaking, like that? Not a punch pulled.

Posted by morland @ 05:41 PM

:: Comments ::

Morland, if you wanted to go out on a date with me, you didn't have to enter my wacky contest. silly man. all you had to do was ask.

Posted by: britney spears on October 30, 2003 05:44 PM

Fascinating. Nerd boy finds potential lover online. Romance through the web. I can see you at the office nervously fidgeting, awaiting a response from your oh-so-witty entry. The crushing blow of tardiness is only fitting to life in "Struggleville" (Forst 1998 p.309) and serves to reaffirm the compelling force keeping your world in misery & sufferance. All very intriguing, Morland. But since all interaction involved two anonymous parties: you & author, I think humiliation was brought upon yourself in describing the episode in this forum. Question begs: what was the question and your formidable answer? What is Morland's answer to blog romance, or blo-mance, blog-rance, blo-rance, blog-ance. blo-vance?

Posted by: Al on October 30, 2003 10:43 PM

I think it would be called

Blog-o-mance

with the hyphenation, of course.

Posted by: The guy who lives in vail on October 31, 2003 12:50 AM

By cloaking the hard details, I can allow for a moderate amount of humiliation, but still temper it so to prevent full, public mocking. This way, I feel like I'm repenting for my mistake, but in a fashion entirely under my control.

Therefore, I cannot reveal the details of this contest, as it would be a simple task to search the internet and unravel the whole mess.

Posted by: morland on October 31, 2003 07:47 AM

Wuss.

Posted by: Al on October 31, 2003 08:15 AM

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