New Member Initiation.

If you are one of my friends, and you have ever had the pleasure (displeasure?) of sending a request to join EP while I was sleeping or away, you probably know what happens.

Several EP members are also mods, and therefore get an email alert every time someone wants to join. They usually just forward the message to the entire group and say "who the hell is this?"

They go one for a while until I wake up and, depending of how well I know the person, defend them (I will always defend them, but the better I know them the harder I work at it).

Let me shut up now and show you what amused me this morning when I logged on to EP.

[EP] Fwd: Google Groups: Membership Pending

A requested to join the Email Party group and is
awaiting approval.

You can approve or reject this request online

R: who this?
S: It's your mom. Didn't you know we invited her?
R: Shhh, I have all of my mom's passwords. Don't tell anyone.

(MK's note, I am giving everyone an initial instead of a name since there is talk of mom's and such, and will remove anything at the posters request)

A: Such a warm welcome. :P
S: What? I LOVE R's mom! She's hot as hale!
R: She just came back for her first visit yesterday. She took the fam out and bought us all dinners!
MK: It's typical of these folks. They are paranoid about new people.
R: Why would someone VOLUNTARALY join this group?
C: It's [my friend] from LJ. He's on mine and [another girl's] flist at least. Probably a few others.

He has a cute ass.

And that's the end of that thread. All of this "who dat" started to make A anxious, so he started a thread to introduce himself. Here it is.

A: Since it seems I can't be addressed directly, even though I CAN SEE YOU, I shall introduce myself.

I am A, also known as [redacted], also known as [redacted]. I'm a friend of MK's from LJ, and she's been after all of us to join the email party for a while, and my email box has been relatively calm as of late, so I decided to do so. but geeze...make a person feel like an intruder why don't you.

MK: EP ARE ASSHOLES IT IS PART OF OUR CHARM
J: I didn't say or do anything!
MK: EVERYONE JUST SAY HI
J2: i need more information in order to make an informed decision.
S2: THAT'S THE PROBLEM J! WE AREN'T DOING ANYTHING, LOLOLOLOL
MK: too bad (in response to J2)
J: I am fine with whatever. LOL.
MK: People act like they don't see me advertising EP to my flist or something.

J2 is an exception because she hates new people

S: HI. Why do you hate me already? (in response to original post)
S: I'm hoping to get the dossier from my private investigator later this afternoon. I'll fax you a copy. (in response to J2's request for more info)
MK: He is reacting unfavorably to teh typical EP reaction to new people. I told him it only lasts a little while.
S:

I refuse to believe that J2 hated me at first.

::

LALALALALALAICANNOTHEARYOULALALALALA::
MK: Me too. But only because she approached me (after I posted to the LJ community)
S:

Just imagine how he'll feel when I post that video I have of him. (in response to me saying that he is reacting unfavorably)

OMG A I AM ONLY JOKING YOU ARE AWESOME STAY CLASSY!

R2: a,

how do you feel about freckles?

J: good question. i must know this, too.
J2: i made an exception for you s. (in response to S's refusal to BELIEVE)
S:

Thirded.

This matters. (back to teh freckle stuff)
S2: a, pics or gtfo pls. :)

we need to know if there are other hot guys in EP.

S: I assume because R2 vouched for me. Oh, and because of my fabulous tatas.
J: Tatas are good. We like the tatas.
S: Thank you. They like you, too!
R:

Hello and WELCOME!

It is only a matter of time before EP consumes your life.

S: OR? Before you decide we're all assholes and that this is a waste of your time and energy.
R: Well, if you can take some mostly friendly ribbing and not hold a grudge, you're generally fine.
A: Damn. I bitch, go to a meeting, come back 30 minutes later and the entirety of EP is all "WTF dude?"

So um, let me try to splain.

No, there is to much. Let me sum up. Buttercup marry Humperdink in little less than half an hour...

Wait. Wrong sum up.

I'm 31, male, single, baldish depending on if I've bothered to shave my head in the last day or so, green eyes, 6', 230ish, like [identifying info? maybe, I dunno], can be just as much of an asshole as anybody else if I want to be, live in [SOUTH] where it's currently brain meltingly hot, and if you want anymore go look up my myspace. :P

Oh, and freckles are a-ok with me. In fact, they might just be sexay.

R: Whereabouts in [SOUTH]?
S: FUCK YES on the freckles.


Ok, there's more. But as you can see, he has been officially initiated and is now one of us. I probably won't always use initials. But when people start talking about family and where they live and stuff I get paranoid that they will be like OMG MY PRIVACY!

Meg's newest cake

In email party we have people that do all kinds of different jobs. We like it that way because we get a lot of stories and find out about industries that we might not otherwise know about.

Megan is one such person. She is a pastry chef in Los Angeles and she will often share some of her work with us.

I was especially impressed with the cake that she posted today. When I think of Megan's work, I think of her more as an artist than a cook/chef. And I am not saying that her food is not tasty (one time she made s'mores from scratch, like, COMPLETELY, no store bought graham crackers or chocolate squares), but that it is just to fun to look at it as it is to eat it.

The cake she posted to EP today was so beautiful that I thought it was fitting to be my first REAL post to this blog.

To see more of Meg's work, including more shots of this cake, you can visit her portfolio.

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