I find the stance that you really truly know what the other person is feeling and that you're invulnerable to misreads or hope unattractive myself, so it's clear we won't be going for the same guys.
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 1:54:41 pm PST #2166 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 23, 2006 1:56:52 pm PST #2167 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Exactly. I mean, does this situation just never happen to men or it is just verbotten to talk about? I think at least some women are just as capable of having sex without love or emotion.
While it probably happens to men less, it does happen. I think this is one of those mass entertainment conventions like guys always being the ones to cheat in a marriage (which, happily, GA doesn't follow). Like, there have to be two people for it to be cheating, and I don't think it's just one incredibly busy woman out there wrecking thousands of homes across the nation.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 2:33:36 pm PST #2168 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think it's just one incredibly busy woman out there wrecking thousands of homes across the nation.
Do you have any idea how tiring that is?
I just finished listening to Our Man In Havana. I have no idea why I was expecting something Carreish. Either way, I'm entranced by the idea of playing chequers with mini bottles of alcohol. Why didn't I read this book while I was in university?
Cass - Jan 23, 2006 2:34:02 pm PST #2169 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Do you thinkGA: I think he sees a potential in her and wants to believe it is either already realized or closer than we are being shown. Or, I should clarify, closer than I can see.
I think this is one of those mass entertainment conventionsWhich gets tiring to me. Life doesn't all follow the same plot conventions, maybe entertainment can try to mix it up a little as well.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 2:41:29 pm PST #2170 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hate being asked for project documentation we should have been maintaining and now needs to be assembled pretty much from scratch covering months.
Basically I hate project documentation. The OCD part of me sees why, but the lazy part of me is very compelling.
Lee - Jan 23, 2006 2:53:27 pm PST #2171 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
GA: I think they are both at fault here. She is probably more so, because she is making the decision to fib, but his character is such that he assumes what he wants to see is actually what's there, without really listening to her.
Today has been very busy, but nice too, since I got/took a full hour for lunch, and I haven't had any competing projects.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 2:54:01 pm PST #2172 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's listening. He's just not looking.
Lee - Jan 23, 2006 2:56:24 pm PST #2173 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Maybe he's not asking the right questions.
msbelle - Jan 23, 2006 3:13:04 pm PST #2174 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
me leaving office - "I am gonna be good and not get ice cream on teh way home like I want, I am going to have a healthier and actually balanced meal."
me walking home PASSED the Baskin Robbins - preen, imaginary "good" points.
me getting into my house - "hello house, hello Sylvester, hello Oz."
me putting things down see Oz walk over to litter box, not in it though, sit down and PEE ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!
WTF! Cat is damaged.
me now having homemade ice cream for dinner.
Zenkitty - Jan 23, 2006 3:13:18 pm PST #2175 of 10002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
How can he not notice that she hasn't really moved in when most of her stuff doesn't even seem to be there? I don't like Burke much, and I think it's because he seems arrogant and condescending to me. Like, by being with Cristina he's giving her a gift, that of course she will want the gift of Burke more than she wants anything else, even her independence. She shouldn't be fibbing, of course, but maybe she just doens't know yet what she wants most, and he's pushing in that gentle I-know-best-for-you way. Or maybe I have issues.