Gchat is an asshole. Correction, gchat is making ME look like an asshole, and I don’t DO anything. Normally, I would be all SWEET! recognition for stuff I didn’t do, bring on the wine. But, this time, I’m not so cool with it.

I am almost always connected, I have been known to nap with my phone and fall asleep in the middle of tweeting. Which makes those last tweets way more interesting than the other 6,000 before it. Sort of.

Anyhoo. Gchat is the IM client that I use and I like it because it’ right there in my email window ready for me. Except when I’m not there. Know what I mean? I have gchat installed on 3 of my computers so maybe it’s not me on IM it’s my daughter and she definitely doesn’t want to talk to OLD PEOPLE. But there are times that I am truly, absolutely AWAY. It should have a little symbol next to it saying I’m away. EXCEPT I have an Android phone. And, OF COURSE, the android phone has gchat on it, and of course, it signs me in anytime it damn well pleases. So the other person at the end using whatever IM application thinks- Hey she’s online. Never mind, it’s 3 am in my time zone and I don’t get up at that hour for ANYONE. Except if someone is puking. But nonetheless, I often wake up to IM chats I was never a part of:

*Hey you there?

*I know you’re online

*Man, you’re a BITCH

*Talk to you later

And there I stand bleary eyed in my kitchen feeling all guilty and shit, and I run to the computer to dash off an email (because that person is not online NOW why would they be online NOW) explaing I wasn’t around and to get back to me at their leisure.

To all my peeps out there, it may LOOK like I’m ignoring you but I’m not.

Unless I am.