I'm around!

Glendalough is very cool, ahnd it's a good idea to go on a nice day. On the other hand, Chester Beatty is just aroundthe corner, and Glendalough hasn't moved in 1200 years, so it'll still be there tomorrow.

::grin:: Yeah, I decided not to go. In part because the friend I was going to go with got really fucking smashed last night, and I didn't feel like going by myself. I'm a little worried the weather is going to change overnight, though, and I'd like to go on a pretty day. But such is life, you pick and you choose.

I had an entire carafe of coffee this morning, which was so good as to be unspeakably so. Interestingly, on a full pot the press makes two pints of coffee. I know this, because we were out of clean mugs in the house, so I had to use a pint class. It was a budweiser pint glass, and pleasantly misleading.

Actually, I had a thought about something we were perhaps missing from the kink discussionn where things seemed to be veering uncomfortably judgmental for some people. It seems to me that its society's "fucked-up"ness as much, or perhaps more than the individual's, that goes into determining/defining what is "kinky". In fetishland, it's all about the individual. But I think the appeal of the kink doesn't necessarily have to do with internal repression.

In conclusion: bork bork bork!

So. What do you think about at 7 o'clock on a Saturday morning?

The cats were quite disgusted that I managed to sleep through until nearly 8. Stupid cats!

God dammit. My tv is crapping out. I really don't want to have to go buy a new one.

Actually, that's not the problem. The problem is that I really do want to go buy a new one. And I have to go to fucking Best Buy today to pay off the bill for my computer. But I really shouldn't be doing shit like that right now, especially with the job sitch so unsteady.

My cats were too.

Last night my back was feeling fine, so I didn't take the planned muscle relaxant. This morning I can barely bend over to feed said cats.

I just added the muscle stuff to the slew of meds I take in the morning. I expect to be back asleep very shortly.

Ouch, Sumi. Back to bed sounds like a plan.

SA, you chose wisely.

Kathy, I'd need product for them. I don't know that the first would need a half hour blow out, but it might require some other styling (hot rollers, velcro rollers, or a curling iron) depending on your hair.

(I could, with a comb and some time in the mornings, do #2 with no product no problem, but I have an insane amount of hair.)

I could do #2 but I would need some blow drying (maybe five minutes) and product. I don't have an insane amount of hair, but I have enough wave that my hair generally does what I tell it.

Also, I'm seconding ChiKat's question. When is the last time you used product, and what did you use? There are lots of weightless products now, and generally, if you towel dry and maybe let it air dry for a few, then put the product in (a small amount) and use a blow dryer for a few minutes, you won't end up with that sticky feel, or really--any feel at all. The only sort of products you're going to feel are those you put in after your hair is dry: spray, wax, paste (or if you put in gel or mousse after your hair was dry, I suppose you'd feel them, too).

Actually, I had a thought about something we were perhaps missing from the kink discussionn where things seemed to be veering uncomfortably judgmental for some people. It seems to me that its society's "fucked-up"ness as much, or perhaps more than the individual's, that goes into determining/defining what is "kinky". In fetishland, it's all about the individual. But I think the appeal of the kink doesn't necessarily have to do with internal repression.

Yeah. I ended up abandoning three different comments on the discussion yesterday, because I couldn't find the words I wanted, but brenda, you've hit on it. And actually I don't even think the definition has to get judgmental about society, either. A kink is a deviation from the norm. It's all about numbers. Hec was inserting psychology in the question, when it's really (I think, by definition) a sociological one.

Where and why an individual may deviate is where you could bring in psychology, but that's not what defines the kink. It's a kink if it's unusual. People are early adopters of practices, or adopters of non-standard practices, for all sorts of reasons. Can pathology be one of those reasons? Sure, but it doesn't have to be. Also, I think "twist" rather than "bent" is a better definition, but that's bringing the dictionary back into it.

For the last day or so, I've been confusing this thread and Bitches. We've been talking Swedes and hair over here, and migraines and temp jobs over there. sarameg and msbelle were the only landmarks I had to orient myself, this morning.

Hee, I know. And then Daniel and Andi were borking at each other in Bitches this morning, so I was extra confused.

YES! The borking.