<p>When I read my own posts I wince at every misspelling, punctuation error, and typo.</p>
<p>On-line I probably drag an argument out longer than I would in person. One annoying bad habit I have both on-line and IRL is correcting the misinformation of others, even when it doesn’t need to be corrected.</p>
<p>I talk waaaaay more here than in real life. In both places, I second guess myself and fret that I’ve been unclear or dumb.</p>
<p>It turns out, I am a mass of insecurities! LOL.</p>
<p>garland - I could have written exactly what you just did, but the majority of my “replies” go into the “trash” after I review since I can’t imagine anyone would actually bother to read it! </p>
<p>My “fingers” think better than my mouth, though. I can usually make my point better with the written word, though it takes me a bit as I tend to linger too long on wording. </p>
<p>Now, will I have the courage to post this one? YES!</p>
<p>Keeps you in form, coureur. Never know when you’ll need to use all of that correct information ;).</p>
<p>bookworm, just for fun (just kidding here ;)), how about we give you an edgier screen name? :)</p>
<p>Because a “book worm” lays waste to ponderous tomes or even wood with little effort. Bookworms, frankly, are all about eating, sleeping, finding new books to conquer and sex. That’s pretty edgy…there’s action, salacious pleasures and veni, vedi, vici involved. </p>
<p>Let’s see: buchwerm, tomeslayer, binderbeast, paperdriller, ceasarwerm…what do you think?</p>
<p>Oh, I am definitely funnier and more irreverent IRL. The master of the sly wise crack when least expected. I become strangely earnest when I post.</p>
<p>Mafool - me too. Strangely earnest. Determined to be noble. Not that I don’t value earnest and noble IRL, I do. And for matters of the heart I always try to be both (although it is rough to achieve noble). But I am more prone to sarcasm and occasional argumentativeness IRL when matters of the heart are not involved. And, given corporate life, how much of one’s day can be spent in matters of the heart?</p>
<p>You know, I started this thread because someone was really nice and sent me a PM responding to one of my posts saying I was, “a gem”. And my reaction was, “Wow I have really fooled them. I have got to go confess so I don’t get any credit that I don’t deserve.” :)</p>
<p>Paperdriller. I vote for paperdriller.</p>
<p>Up until garland’s post I was going to say that I already knew that information–although there are an awful lot of introverts in here. I am an extreme extrovert IRL. </p>
<p>garland–you crazy girl–you have terrific insight and some of your posts are as brave as. Throw that insecurity blanket away!</p>
<p>binderbeast sounds naughtier…Speaking of naughty–what kind of naughty SB? Curse word naughty or devlish prank naughty?</p>
<p>This is a very cool thread. It’s downright…metacognitive!</p>
<p>Part of it may well be that most of my interactions are with people to whom I really don’t want or need to disclose my more central, “earnest” beliefs and feelings. Co-workers, parents of the kid’s friends, neighbors, service workers…it’s much easier and approproate, really, to just be funny. Which I don’t know how to do when I write! I think that my sarcasm will read like meanness.</p>
<p>Whoops–late post; got bumperd for a few minutes and got out of sequence. Sorry!</p>
<p>See, cheers, now I’m sorry I posted that…:)</p>
<p>(kidding, kidding.)</p>
<p>You-name-it naughty. All of the above. For me, being naughty super-sizes being alive.</p>
<p>Don’t know that I can analyze my own posts but on another BB–devoted to current events, science, & other topics–I posted a couple of times and my kids (who also lurk there) recognized my posts! “Yeah mom, that sounds like you.” Whatever “that” is!</p>
<p>I’m probably pretty predictable.</p>
<p>“For me, being naughty super-sizes being alive.”</p>
<p>And Sinner’s Alley now has its tagline…</p>
<p>I don’t know what I am like on CC or IRL, actually. Probably in both situations I have an inaccurate view of what I am like. I may be shorter IRL than I sound on CC.</p>
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You sent me to the dictionary, paying3. I do that IRL, too. I think I’ve got it now.</p>
<p><em>back to the regularly scheduled meta-cognitive higher order thinking-about-thinking</em></p>
<p>More possible screen names: </p>
<p>büchwerm
tometoob
büchtoobe
buksRfud
sexewerm
sexewürm</p>
<p>Some one mentioned not wanting to be recognized. Many years ago I did recognize another student from my ds school, because his mum was my friend, I recognized his use of her maiden name-not an extremely unusual name, but in conjunction with the info given, I knew exactly who it was, which made me very uncomfortable, as he was one of Ds close friends and I would not have wanted him to feel spied upon, nor to have recognised me! Hence the generic screen name.</p>
<p>I always feel a little squirrelly trying not to include unnecessary personal info in my posts. I seem to have the tendency to want to give the entire story, but that is TMI, so I then try to cut out the identifiers and keep in the applicable info, then I get the white blank screen and don’t bother retyping ;)</p>
<p>I’m the Queen of TMI. Honestly, how many trilingual Swedish diplomats’ kids attending tiny international private schools in DC do you think there are? 
(Hint: Not many.) One of my friends from school caught me in the act once–he found my chances thread. That was a bit embarrassing. :eek:</p>