Time is weird

Specifically, I keep thinking it's Sunday, when in fact I have another four days off ahead of me before I have to go back to work. This is so odd. I hope I don't forget and set my alarm tonight.

Had a very odd dream about high-school mutants (of the X-Men variety) who had to pretend to take the semi-sedation drugs that the school was handing out to all the students in order to dull "mutant powers"; then we (the mutants) discovered a very, very deep stairwell that led to a room where other, older mutants - students who'd escaped years ago - had settled, and - farther down - a secret exit through a swamp (where one of us had to battle a giant - like, four stories tall - frog). Very odd dream.

Something I don't understand about weblogs

(Aside from the public's insistence on calling them "blogs", which just sounds vulgar to my ear.)

One of the more common comments I see on weblogs is "Hey, I just posted on this topic" (often in more or fewer words). It usually carries something of a sense of indignation, like because Poster A got to the topic five seconds before Poster B did, it's therefore Poster A's Topic. I can understand the desire for hit-count (hell, I practically comment-beg here every few weeks, and there's no other way to explain Matt Drudge's DRUDGE REPORT EXCLUSIVE - MUST CITE DRUDGE every time he gets news), but the Internet is supposed to be a community; does it really matter that Slouching Donkey, Lying Elephant posted about CIA Director George Tenet's resignation before Obsidian Wings? (This is actually a pretty bad example, since Catsy (from SD,LE) doesn't seem to be carrying the indignation I mentioned, but it was the first example I could come up with, so bear with me.) Unless the point of writing a weblog is to be the über-blog, where everybody else is getting their information from you, why does it matter who posted it first as long as the information gets out?

Quoted for ladyjaida...

...who asked about the song, so don't read too much into it. :)

( Goodnight, My Someone )