I can guarantee you that no one has been seeing you the way you see yourself, Allyson. If nothing else, your reflection is all flipped around.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
Jesse - Feb 21, 2006 8:04:55 pm PST #8648 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Allyson - Feb 21, 2006 8:05:32 pm PST #8649 of 10002
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
I didn't claim to be rational, ita. I'm emotional and raging about my face.
Scrappy - Feb 21, 2006 8:05:45 pm PST #8650 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Allyson, dollface, my advice to you is to use your lovely new glasses to look at OTHER people's faces for a while. Not TV people, real people--people you know who have lovers or husbands or whatever. You will see the same amount, if not more, of zits, wrinkles, lines or whatever that you have. Hell, you don't have to look at a lot of people--just check MY face out. I have way more of all those things than you--plus a plethora of delightful broken capillaries, which give me a lovely "Tip O'Neill" look. And yet, people love me and I have friends. So my advice, given with all affection, is to step away from the mirror with your judgmental self.
Jesse - Feb 21, 2006 8:07:41 pm PST #8651 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been wishing recently I had those crinkly lines around my eyes. But no.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2006 8:07:50 pm PST #8652 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
this guy gets to design chocolates. That's a job.
Ooh - does he use CAD and wireframe animation?
ION, did they get this headline from the SciFi Channel's programming?
Mutant Chicken Grows Alligatorlike Teeth
Working late in the developmental biology lab one night, Matthew Harris of the University of Wisconsin noticed that the beak of a mutant chicken embryo he was examining had fallen off. Upon closer examination, he found that the snubbed beak of the mutant chicken had tiny bumps and protuberances along the edge of its beak that looked like teeth, alligator teeth to be specific. The accidental discovery revealed that chickens retain the ability to grow teeth, even though birds lost this feature long ago. The finding also resurrected the controversial theory of one of the founders of comparative anatomy, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire.
Run away!
Scrappy - Feb 21, 2006 8:10:50 pm PST #8653 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
One more thing--Allyson, don't get a magnifying mirror if you can help. I have one so I can actually get the mascara on my lashes instead of everywhere else. I have to step away quickly, because if I linger for long, I want to claw my own splotchy face off. Once I walk away, the evil judgmental me ends to quiet down and leave me alone.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2006 8:13:19 pm PST #8654 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the subject was a little nutty too.
Is it crazy if it works, though? Or just extra clever?
I need to make a note of the chocolate company, Perkins, so I'll check tomorrow.
Allyson--there's nothing rational about reacting to getting glasses for the first time. But to call it a realization is imbuing it with a rationality you admit isn't there. A paranoia, worry, whatever...sure. But it's not a realization, because there's no real in it.
P.M. Marc - Feb 21, 2006 8:21:00 pm PST #8655 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yes, make note of the chocolate company.
On account of me obviously needing more in addition to Perkins getting you some.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2006 8:25:31 pm PST #8656 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cass - Feb 21, 2006 9:07:07 pm PST #8657 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.
...this guy gets to design chocolates. That's a job.That's a fabulous job. People should sometimes get to have jobs that make them actually happy.
And Robin is wise. Which, not so shocking, I know. The way people see you is not the way you see yourself. I had this moment where I realized this the other day and it was oddly comforting.