Hec, again, I'm so sorry. What an evil place.
Benefits end tomorrow night. I'll have JZ fax the term letter to EM so we can get Emmett switched over seamlessly. I've guess I've got some time to do COBRA if I want.
Can you get on JZ's benefits?
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 30, 2006 3:57:14 pm PST #6386 of 10001
What is even happening?
Steph L. - Mar 30, 2006 4:06:49 pm PST #6387 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My thing in this regard is that I don't just want a relationship, I want a Love Story. I'm a romantic at heart,
I always wanted a Love Story. The big sweeping passion, Cathy and Heathcliff (yes, they were doomed, and not in the Wallybee/Penguin sense of dooooooooomed, but they were bigger than life and melodramatic and it was Le Grande Passion, etc.), the overwhelming lightning bolt of desire and This Is The One. I always wanted that.
....and then, one day, I didn't. Now, I don't mean passion*less*; not at all. But really? Cathy and Heathcliff were FUCKED UP and miserable. I think the kind of metaphorical fire than results from the metaphorical lightning bolt of desire is a forest fire that can rage out of control and then flicker out, having spent itself in the grand bonfire of Cinematic Love.
I think that love that starts the way they taught us to build a fire in Girl Scouts, with tinder and kindling, starting small and adding bigger fuel logs gradually when the fire is hot enough, is the kind of fire that ends up lasting.
(I just wrote all that schmoop and metaphor, and I'm not even drunk. I'ma blame the cold meds.)
My favorite quote about love is "Love is friendship caught fire." That's what I want.
This isn't a relationship born of air and fire, it springs from earth and water.
This. This is all I want.
erikaj - Mar 30, 2006 4:07:55 pm PST #6388 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I would want at least one shot at the Love Story passion, uh, I mean without my dying of leukemia, for all that the first line of my book is "What do you say about a 25 year old crip that died?"
billytea - Mar 30, 2006 4:10:28 pm PST #6389 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I would want at least one shot at the Love Story passion, uh, I mean without my dying of leukemia, for all that the first line of my book is "What do you say about a 25 year old crip that died?"
I'm guessing "bummer" is insufficient.
Sparky1 - Mar 30, 2006 4:11:13 pm PST #6390 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Big sweeping love didn't work out for me. Silly, sweet love has.
Hec, I'm sorry about what happened. You will be better off in a new place. I've put it in writing.
And I'm finally going home to enjoy a 3 day weekend...
-t - Mar 30, 2006 4:15:35 pm PST #6391 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I still want a Love Story, but I think my idea of what that means has changed. Less drama, more soup and grilled cheese.
(eta missing "t"s. Is that ironic?)
erikaj - Mar 30, 2006 4:18:29 pm PST #6392 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
That too, bt. But it would make a better candygram than a mystery.ETA: I didn't mean, like, a never-ending passion. But mine have always been friends I groped. I'm not sure I've ever been truly "in love".
brenda m - Mar 30, 2006 4:22:47 pm PST #6393 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
See, sometimes I think the "big sweeping love" thing is a big part of what's getting in my way of finding anything else.
Pix - Mar 30, 2006 4:36:55 pm PST #6394 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Hec, I'm so sorry. If it makes you feel any better, I'm getting my hair cut right now AIFG!
Cass - Mar 30, 2006 4:39:38 pm PST #6395 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I have solved the Howler mystery! Details to follow.
I'll be looking for ya', Cass!::waves in all directions (I don't know where Eugene *is* past "Oregon" which has become insufficient data)::
the overwhelming lightning bolt of desire and This Is The One. I always wanted that.The feeling is amazing, but it often ends up imploding in really spectacular fashion with a lot of collatoral damage.