Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Jan 27, 2005 11:09:06 am PST #1492 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When I was unemployed, I had just moved to LA. That had all its own cachet right there.

I loved that second screen of the second game, because I think I only knew what one of the answers was. I guessed pretty well, but still. The other two quizzes pegged me as new money verging on old, which cracks my ass up. But I'm the product of two class systems that are related to each other more than they're related to the class system of where I'm actually trying to live.

Now I think I'm going to obsess over profiling my neighbourhoods (old and new).

So far, I am a Urban Achiever/Young Digerati hybrid, living in a neighbourhood also featuring American Dreams, Bohemian Mix and Money and Brains.


Jessica - Jan 27, 2005 11:09:29 am PST #1493 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Okay, the quiz says I'm Nouveau Riche, but confusing. I can live with that.


Pix - Jan 27, 2005 11:10:58 am PST #1494 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.

Oh Maria, it doesn't really bother me. We joke about it constantly ("Yep, my job is lame. I'm just going to sit here in my beautiful house and think about how lame it is.")

I just thought it was a good example of the class dichotemy since he straddles such a stange line. He's got the whole shiny television/celebrity status points but then loses them because of the "low class-ness" of the actual show.


sarameg - Jan 27, 2005 11:11:22 am PST #1495 of 10002

Chintz vs. Shag said I was ecclectic and made it nervous and would I please take the test again.

Me too.

I never know what to say to "what do you do" for work because the job title really is weird and describes nothing and there aren't really industry (and I'm not even in industry!) terms for my mishmash. So I say customer support, even though that's only 50% and even so, it is more complex than that.

What I actually do requires a paragraph. Or a bullet list.

Or I just say I'm a glorified peon in pseudo- academia.


§ ita § - Jan 27, 2005 11:13:19 am PST #1496 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I never know what to say to "what do you do"

I'm in computers. But what do you do? Analysis. Analysis? Yeah. Oh, and I teach martial arts.

That makes the change the topic, or opens them to me talking interminably about krav. My parents don't really understand what I do, and I don't feel any value is added to most of my relationships by understanding what an Application Architect does wrt content management. Bores me to talk about.


Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 11:14:19 am PST #1497 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

ita is me.

16 Bohemian Mix , 07 Money & Brains , 03 Movers & Shakers , 01 Upper Crust , 04 Young Digerati

Also I am Nouveau Riche. As others have said, Bestsellers? Only by accident.


Jessica - Jan 27, 2005 11:15:51 am PST #1498 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

And "Name That Class" had me flipping between old and new money with every question. If only I had a bank account to match my apparent personality.


Calli - Jan 27, 2005 11:18:30 am PST #1499 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

My parents don't understand what I do, either. They're still waiting for me to come to my senses and become a teacher like everyone else in my family.


brenda m - Jan 27, 2005 11:19:00 am PST #1500 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

There's just something all kinds of twisted about this:

The D.A. said today that he would probably seek the death penalty for the suicidal man who left his S.U.V. on a track.


sarameg - Jan 27, 2005 11:20:08 am PST #1501 of 10002

My neighborhood:

61 City Roots, 40 Close-In Couples, 54 Multi-Culti Mosaic, 26 The Cosmopolitans, 59 Urban Elders

Which is probably about right. I don't fit into any of the descriptions, really, except one age one. But that's fine.