How Do You Solve a Problem Like...

A good portion of my day is spent talking on ichat with Henry Ferreira (see Tuesdays with Henry), and I feel we've come to know each other's online personalities fairly well. So when Henry left his ichat account open on a public computer in RISD's Printmaking building and a deeply angry sophomore named Maria started talking to me through his account, it didn't take long to realize that this was not my friend. But for some reason I talked to her for a long time anyway. I'm posting some excerpts from our chat, so that researchers can analyze the unfocused angst of a modern American art school student, and together brainstorm ways to quell that anger, or at least direct it toward something that needs a good name calling!

(Notes: 1. You may have to click some of the chats to open them in a new window and make them easy to read. There's no good way I've found to stop blogger from compressing images. Blogger is lucky that I didn't know about Tumblr when I started this thing. 2. Henry was also logged in to facebook, which is how Maria found out the rest of the information such as the fact that my girlfriend's name is Emily.)