Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.

Mal ,'Ariel'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

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 § - Jun 15, 2005 5:06:54 am PDT #2028 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why do people do stupid shit? One of the people I had dinner with last night has neck problems that might result in paralysis if he takes a hit the wrong way. Another has bone chips floating around in her thumb. He waited until the day before the big test to decide he wasn't going to to it. She did the test anyway.

And that's not even heroism (let's for the moment ignore my own tweaked wrist). That's just ... tying up too much of your own wellbeing in what you can and do do. There's a picture in your head of a martial artist (or an FBI agent) and it involves certain things -- not being a wuss, being tough, having heart, and these things are in service of a certain goal, and not achieving that goal means you are a wuss with no heart and really what were you thinking getting into this anyway?

Or that's how it works in my head.


Lyra Jane - Jun 15, 2005 5:17:31 am PDT #2029 of 10001
Up with the sun

I was HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED by Vanilla Ice on that repeat last night. That was lame as fuck.

Did he even do the Destiny's Child song at all? Or did he just randomly interject the title lyric into his own lame-ass rap?


-t - Jun 15, 2005 5:22:47 am PDT #2030 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I will repeat, The Motels were robbed.


Connie Neil - Jun 15, 2005 5:26:45 am PDT #2031 of 10001
brillig

There's a picture in your head of a martial artist (or an FBI agent) and it involves certain things -- not being a wuss, being tough, having heart, and these things are in service of a certain goal, and not achieving that goal means you are a wuss with no heart and really what were you thinking getting into this anyway?

You've just described my husband's approach to life. "Goddammit, you just had back surgery/heart surgery/etc.!" I'll yell at him (it's not easy to yell etc.). "I'm not an invalid!" he'll yell back.

He's always defined himself by his strength and his body's capabilities. A stint in a wheelchair is always lurking in his memory, goading him on to prove he can do everything he used to do, the increasing scar tissue notwithstanding. This attitude has kept him functioning beyond what most people have thought he was capable of, but there is an unarguable barrier that he keeps bouncing against. He believes that an acceptance of limitation is an acceptance of the wheelchair, despite the fact that he's screwed up recovery times by trying too much too soon.


Aims - Jun 15, 2005 5:30:07 am PDT #2032 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

The Motels looked like someone's mom doing karaoke.

Arrested Development kicked ass though.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 15, 2005 5:34:15 am PDT #2033 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Timelies. Weather weirdness continues. Yesterday's high temprature was at around 6 or 7 in the morning (high 70s to low 80s). By the time I left work, it was in the 50s.

Not complaining, mind you, as the humid mid to high 80s crap had to go, but it's odd to be back in April/May during mid-June.


sarameg - Jun 15, 2005 5:35:22 am PDT #2034 of 10001

I don't want to be back at work.

I REALLY want my car back today. (Mechanic is expecting the shipment in this morning.)

I forgot my lunch. I don't remember locking my door. (I'm sure I did. It's instinctive. But it is a thing to obsess about.)


Connie Neil - Jun 15, 2005 5:37:46 am PDT #2035 of 10001
brillig

But it is a thing to obsess about.

Forget about Obsession for Men, it's Obsession for Fretters that is really popular.


Allyson - Jun 15, 2005 5:38:13 am PDT #2036 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

He believes that an acceptance of limitation is an acceptance of the wheelchair, despite the fact that he's screwed up recovery times by trying too much too soon.

Does he get it logically, that he's screwing up recovery? What I mean to ask is, is it a battle between head and heart and heart wins?


brenda m - Jun 15, 2005 5:40:36 am PDT #2037 of 10001
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

For ita.