I just got almost everything else I need to make my Roman Shades. I'm so excited! I can't wait till therapy is done so I can start working on them. Yay!
Can't you ever get your mind out of the hellmouth?
Buffy ,'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
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vw bug - Mar 15, 2005 6:05:48 am PST #6569 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Ginger - Mar 15, 2005 6:28:05 am PST #6570 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Roman shades look hard. Are you using those tapes with the little rings on them?
I am waiting for people to call me back. Didn't Dante write about this level of purgatory?
Pix - Mar 15, 2005 6:54:50 am PST #6571 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I am waiting for people to call me back. Didn't Dante write about this level of purgatory?
Yes. It's right above the leg warmer level.
beekaytee - Mar 15, 2005 7:18:03 am PST #6572 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
So, yeah, there's screaming. I haven't seen a quiet way to get people fierce yet.
I'm surprising myself with the timiditude. I don't generally see myself that way. In my imagination, I'm an asskicker from way back. And the various times I've actually had to defend myself, I was not shy.
Plus, as a long-distance cyclist, I was the surliest dog on the trail...doing plenty of yelling myself. ("Ya like life buddy? Then stay off the fucking trail!"...a personal favorite.)
Yesterday, for some reason, the idea of someone doing a drill sergeant number was just not appealing. I won't, however, let that get in the way of a lifelong dream to do fight training.
In the moment, it strikes me that I'm afraid I may not be half as tough as I like to think I am. I guess krav will tell.
Put up or shut up moments...and there have been more than a few in my life...tend to inspire some ambivalance right before I take the plunge...it'll pass.
Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2005 7:38:16 am PST #6573 of 10001
brillig
I'm afraid my automatic reaction to someone yelling at me to do something is to defy them. I don't do the yelling thing.
Aims - Mar 15, 2005 7:39:17 am PST #6574 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The screaming part was my favorite. It got a lot of my cramped feelings out.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 7:39:48 am PST #6575 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm afraid my automatic reaction to someone yelling at me to do something is to defy them
Even if you want to do the thing they're exhorting you to do? Isn't that a bit self-defeating?
Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2005 7:44:36 am PST #6576 of 10001
brillig
Even if you want to do the thing they're exhorting you to do? Isn't that a bit self-defeating?
Probably. But I don't believe yelling at people is conducive to cooperation. It's a personal thing.
erikaj - Mar 15, 2005 7:45:55 am PST #6577 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes. Hence the fun of "authority issues".
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 7:48:24 am PST #6578 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't believe yelling at people is conducive to cooperation
What's a good way to get you fired up and to push past your pre-conceived definitions of your limits? What pumps you up in a group setting like that?
I don't yell at people because of an authority thing. I feel I have just as much authority (often more) when I'm talking quietly. But to infect them with energy, I've not found anything to compare with yelling myself -- because they need to yell too, and I have to set an energetic example.
Do as I do, and as I say -- that sort of thing.