I made some gift ideas post in LJ a while back:
charities: [link] to which I'd add kiva.org
online store: [link] to which uncommongoods.com is always nice as well as the above mentioned etsy.com
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
msbelle - Dec 14, 2007 11:50:25 am PST #7463 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Allyson - Dec 14, 2007 11:50:52 am PST #7464 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
We could text you instructions during the party.
YES! Please do.
I don't small talk well. And the onus ends up being on me to be funny.
hippocampus - Dec 14, 2007 11:52:15 am PST #7465 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
can we text you in lolcat?
ita - passing you head-bubblewrap to make up for my obnoxious.
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2007 11:54:40 am PST #7466 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't small talk well. And the onus ends up being on me to be funny.
Well, if any one conversation gets overly tedious, just excuse yourself and walk over to someone else and start another conversation. Then once you've put in a long enough appearance you can go home.
My personal strategy is to try to look busy with food and/or a drink. Then maybe talk to one or two people for a while before going home. If I'm standing alone too long and desperation strikes, I might go to the bathroom. But I don't really recommend that strategy.
Allyson - Dec 14, 2007 11:56:27 am PST #7467 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
"This is Allyson, she wrote a book."
"Oh? What's it about?"
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans."
"Huh."
Jesse - Dec 14, 2007 11:56:31 am PST #7468 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Top five priciest restaurants in the USA.
I'm relieved Masa was #1, because that shit is ridiculous.
Allyson: "OMG, I can't believe that Mitchell report!"
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2007 11:58:11 am PST #7469 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Allyson, do you know any party tricks? Like tying the stem of a cherry into a knot in your mouth?
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2007 11:58:41 am PST #7470 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't get it. Allyson is so entertaining at parties. And I don't even mean that in a laugh-at way. Totally laugh-with.
Allyson, you could just imagine you were giving me instructions on how to behave at parties. Right now my modus operandi is to mix alcohol with my painkillers, sit still until the room stops spinning, traumatise some guys on the dance floor, punctuating the whole with long walks outside where it's nice and quiet and people leave me alone.
Basically? Obnoxious. Threatened to beat the crap out of someone at the last wedding I attended. But I blame the dysphoric painkillers.
-t - Dec 14, 2007 11:59:40 am PST #7471 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, those are good suggestions, msbelle! Thank you.
Sorry the party is stressing you out, Allyson.
hippocampus - Dec 14, 2007 12:01:39 pm PST #7472 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
my guess is that no one else at that party has as many (invisible) people who've got their back and are pulling for them to succeed as you do.