Poll! Express yourself

[amari_z]

It’s Friday afternoon, I probably have to work most of the weekend, and I am trying to work, but it’s so boring. Random curiosity prompts me to ask the following in a . . . (wait for it) Poll! (You knew that was coming.)

Although I never use emoticons in the many, many emails I write at work, even in the informal messages to people who are friends as well as fellow slaves workers, I can barely make a post or reply in LJ without using emoticons—although my regular repertoire is extremely limited. It basically consists of:

: ) and : ( and :p and ; ) and :D and *_* and :o and, occasionally ^^;.

I kind of find them essential shorthand in the absence of people being able to hear my actual tone. (Especially since I occasionally think I'm funny with the whole sarcasm/irony/dry wit thing and it can get me into trouble.) But I sometimes wonder if they just encourage me to be more lazy about expressing myself.

So that (and the whole extreme procrastination thing) brings me to:

[Poll #910014]

[ETA: Curse you typos! And you too, LJ, for not letting me edit!]

Comments

[amari-z.livejournal.com]

So bored. And the really painfully stupid part is I have things to do. Boring, difficult, complicated things to do. So, therefore, poll. Hey, it all makes sense in my head.

I haven't seen any weather report for snow.this weekend [?] I had to get up early this morning, and there was this magnificent few minutes where snow was swirling and flying around--but about 10 minutes later, zip.

I have no picture mail. : (

Also, I think I broke the internets.