Internet Prophets

(Living in the Shadow of Simian)

There are many bloggers across the internet sharing their thoughts about everything from recipes to politics and beyond. Most of us have other obligations and only devote our spare hours to blogging. That can leave voids in the content that can stretch into weeks at a time.

An idea that embraced my thoughts recently was to invite other bloggers to make written contributions, detailing any topic that might interest the readership of this web site. The first entry for this experiment has been kindly made by a person familiar to many of you that frequent message boards.

Her Name: ArubaGirl

Her Blog: http://www.arubagirl.ws/

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Will The Real Simian Please Stand Up?

I suppose everyone has those days that just drift by, with nothing happening. You know, days that you can just relax, catch a movie, and watch a TV show. Those days are good days, aren't they?

And I suppose that everyone has those days where they're accused of being an internet prophet posting mysterious messages on forums about a case that has had many people in their grip one time or another.

No?

Oh, only me then. Okay.

When I received the message that there was a site out there saying that I was simian, I was flabbergasted. When I went to the site, I was insulted that the thread in my 'name' only got 24 posts or so. Anyway, I denied it to a couple of people and thought that was that. Nobody is really going to believe that I was capable of creating these vague sounding posts, right? And frankly, what constituted some crappy writing? Oh, me of little faith. Not only was it believed, it spread around the internet like wildfire.

I will not deny it: I was pissed. I was spitting nails mad. It truly got my goat that people thought that I knew where Natalee was and wouldn't tell. After ranting to my computer screen for a good while (because it helps sooo much) I called up my best friend and whined to her about the unfairness of it all. Her response: hysterical laughter. My response to that: Sulking silence. Didn't anybody feel my pain here? I told my mom (after explaining the whole back story) and she had the same response. I started to see a pattern here.

Then I really thought about it, and it is kind of funny. I mean, in my resume, underneath my jobs in the casino, insurance and automotive industry; I can put 'internet prophet'. How many people can say that? Not sure that it will actually further my career, but that's another matter.

I will leave you with a little tidbit for the poster who started it all: Petunia. My Chinese Horoscope sign is a monkey. How is that for evidence!