10-02-02 @ 1:35 pm EDT

Somebody continues to e-mail me, even though I told them a long while back I much preferred if they would cease. I stopped reading e-mail from them, as well as their journal, when they insulted me in both of them. I did once break my vow by starting to open an e-mail they sent after my entry about the lady who chastized [sic?] me about my cat, but, seeing it was just as tactless and rude as the rest when I had hoped for ONCE this person could show some tact, I quit reading it, and have yet to read anything else by this user.

Yet for some reason they sent me another e-mail today. I won't even bother guessing what it's about or why it was sent, as I still won't read it. I post this only for their benefit. Surely they have something better to do than e-mail people who have clearly said they won't read or return their e-mails? PURPOSEFULLY this time, and not out of shyness.

While I am on this subject I wanted to address one more point. One of their continual gripes with me was about my whining how people don't comment on my items when they rate. Yet they themselves whine a lot about other people whining, so in that respect we're not so different after all. (Tell them that.)

The plain truth of the matter is that *I* am here to try to IMPROVE my writing. They do not seem to care about improving THEIR writing, as all they do is keep a personal journal. So I find it hard to believe they feel they can judge me because I get angry when I just get a few purple stars rather than some helpful comments to help me improve. Some of us are here just to entertain; some to just improve; some for both reasons. I may whine about other things, but getting mad about a lack of help on my writing is not whining. They may not care about their work, but I do. We are DIFFERENT, and rather than keep reading their tactless e-mails complaining about my want to improve, I decided to just ignore them.

Kinda hard to do when they keep e-mailing me, so why don't they just spare the bandwidth and find something else to type? Like another journal entry whining about people who whine? (Not as if I'll read it.) I've been working on Part 92 all morning, should even be in bed by now, and don't have time to check for e-mail I won't even bother reading. I don't even care if it by any chance (yah!) is friendly. I got stung enough times by this user's insulting comments (YES, what they said HURT me repeatedly), so I won't bother with it anymore. Like I said--I am here to WRITE, and to try to IMPROVE my writing. Not to get insulted at this user's whim, just because they can't stop reading my journal and grousing about it.

Going to save my story now and log off.