RageGirl is home and took a nice long hot shower, which has cranked her down to irked.
Chicken cooking.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 1:48:16 pm PDT #2154 of 10001
Allyson - Aug 11, 2006 2:12:35 pm PDT #2155 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
I'm going to sarameg's for dinner.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 2:33:08 pm PDT #2156 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know. Her irk gives me pause.
sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 3:35:58 pm PDT #2157 of 10001
It was half a freaking HUGE chicken breast, in a ginger soy marinate. I have another half left. Some broccoli too.
Irk means I no longer want to stab people. Hit them, sure. But I'll use a nerf bat.
NOW on PBS is talking to Anna Devere Smith. I'd love to see one of her performances.
sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 3:58:19 pm PDT #2158 of 10001
Interesting thought from her, that she attributed to Cornell West: “Optimism and hope are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there’s enough evidence to allow us to think things are going to be better. . . . Whereas hope looks at the evidence and says it doesn’t look good at all, but we’re going to go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities.”
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 4:02:00 pm PDT #2159 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Interesting. I wouldn't say that hope creates new possibilities--if I did, I'd hope. Considers unsupported possibilities--that I agree with for sure.
sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 4:11:50 pm PDT #2160 of 10001
I'm not reading it as tightly as you, so I can equate new with unsupported in terms of imagination. Basically, going beyond what the evidence allows for.
It's not really a comparison (hope vs optimism) I've looked at before. But it does resonate. I tend towards pessimism, but hang on like a pollyana. I can't really live any other way.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 4:35:31 pm PDT #2161 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm rarely optimistic, and almost never hopeful. It's served me well.
Oh, how the hell would I know? I know that cynics are more often right, and optimists more often happy--I resent having to choose between the two.
Cool 3 year time lapse of a woman's face.
While I'm there:
oh, and I've not seen this...
sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 4:52:30 pm PDT #2162 of 10001
I know that cynics are more often right, and optimists more often happy--I resent having to choose between the two.
Heh. I toss all that judgement off to the side. I'm just wired the way I am, even as I bristle that something other than my own will could control something like that. I'm going to be thinking "it's all going to work out, sara" even as I see the bus heading my way and simultaneously assuming I'm gonna die. And since dead=wormfood and I'm not particularly suicidal, I'm going to count those as contradictory. I've poked at it, and it just doesn't budge. I'm not as introspective as I once was, so I guess that could be subject to change. In any case, maybe it allows me to be both right and happy? Relatively speaking.
Jesse - Aug 11, 2006 4:59:09 pm PDT #2163 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I bet The Hoff is very optimistic.
I am really looking forward to going to sleep tonight. And tomorrow I have to go to the post office to get my diploma. @@
OTOH, I got to hold a tiny baby tonight. Good times.