Chatastrophe

My online chats w/ friends always seem to come in "phases," as in they would start off light, go on for several weeks, then stop altogether, w/ perhaps an occasional Hi or Good morning from me every now and then. In seasonal terms you could call these my Summer Months. It was always something to look forward to, knowing there's a ready ear on the other side of cyberspace.

While it makes me sad that the chat periods come and go, I understand why it has to be. It's not like I have a intimate relationship w/ these people, and we do have lives to live and (sometimes) other friends.

From Fungster to E.Ang to GoodMorningDear to DCo to JCL to ItalianChic. Now the latest casualty is HiyaFelineLegume (man, I suck at aliases), but the reason for the end of this phase ticks me off: I'm being ignored. Long story short: our last chat ended w/ a verbal tiff. While HFL apologized and I admit to overreacting (and apologized the next day), I think that could've been the end of it. No such luck. Being flat-out ignored by the one person who said they'd never do that "because I don't want to be rude" strikes me as hypocritical.

Are you mad at me? Fine. Need some cool-off time? Fine. Just tell me. Don't be all rude and pretending you don't see me. This kind of runaround is exactly what caused the the verbal tiff to begin with, remember? If by some cosmic-technological improbability you really haven't been receiving my messages since that last chat (w/ your busy social/work sked and all), then apologies again. Otherwise: Pfft, what a disappointment.