She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 4:33:40 am PST #667 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I suck at doing things like this half-assed.

Aha! Maybe we have a definition problem. Your mission, which you totally have to accept so don't even ask, is to write about 20 or so concepts.

That's not half-assed. It's the assignment.

Writing about 31? That'd be half-assed.


Laura - Dec 20, 2005 4:33:53 am PST #668 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

looks up, notices vw is Evil!


Ginger - Dec 20, 2005 4:36:32 am PST #669 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm quote girl this morning, but I have those perfectionist tendencies and I try to use Voltaire's "The best is the enemy of the good." as a mantra.


vw bug - Dec 20, 2005 4:37:32 am PST #670 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

I suspect that once I get writing the bulk of the paper, I'll cut easily. I'm sure I don't have easily accessible (meaning, in my brain already) examples for all 31. It's just not possible. I hope.

So, ita, I accept the mission. By the time this thing is written, there will be 20 (or so) concepts.


SuziQ - Dec 20, 2005 4:39:36 am PST #671 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

31 is only good when it comes to flavors.


§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 4:39:44 am PST #672 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

there will be 20 (or so) concepts

And you don't get to wriggle on "or so"! We're totally watching you.


vw bug - Dec 20, 2005 4:43:31 am PST #673 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

I think I'm a little goofy this morning. I just wrote this definition for the word "Revise."

Verb: “to ‘re-see’ and ‘re-compose’ (as opposed to decompose) in order to add meaning.”


Steph L. - Dec 20, 2005 5:02:03 am PST #674 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Radical acceptance has helped me be a bit more like Joe. I usually have a little panic, then remember that I can radically accept it and deal with the consequences as they come. It's helped a lot.

I'm still unclear on the concept of radical acceptance, but it really interests me. Is it (basically) just deciding that no matter how much stress a given situation is causing you, you tell yourself (in kinder terms) "Suck it up and DEAL!"?

ION, I either forgot to put on my watch this morning, or it fell off somewhere. I feel naked without a watch.


vw bug - Dec 20, 2005 5:04:22 am PST #675 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

I'm still unclear on the concept of radical acceptance, but it really interests me. Is it (basically) just deciding that no matter how much stress a given situation is causing you, you tell yourself (in kinder terms) "Suck it up and DEAL!"?

Kind of, but yeah, kinder. It involves validating your feelings around a situation and accepting it as is. The thought is, once you accept the situation, from deep within yourself, you'll be better prepared to actually handle/change the situation. I just wrote a pretty good piece on radical acceptance (and it's pretty damn funny in parts), if you'd like to read it. I think it gives a pretty good understanding of what it is.


Steph L. - Dec 20, 2005 5:09:40 am PST #676 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I just wrote a pretty good piece on radical acceptance (and it's pretty damn funny in parts), if you'd like to read it.

I definitely would!

See, I just have a hard time with the idea of making myself accept a shitty situation. I'm stubborn and willful like that. (And also, unsurprisingly, get stressed more often than I'd like.) So the concept of radical acceptance really interests me, but I don't understand *how* to actually make myself *do* it.