I realize I am being all me me me.
No, you are being all "I am sharing my unique personal knowledge of this subject we are discussing." In other words, please don't stop.
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
Scrappy - Mar 04, 2008 9:24:10 am PST #2874 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
hippocampus - Mar 04, 2008 9:27:04 am PST #2875 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.
growth industry!! we could offer this as a service! We'll be rich!
eta: (um, if these guys can - [link] - offer SL office design services and podcast vocal coaching, we could certainly do 'life enhancement services')
erikaj - Mar 04, 2008 9:27:16 am PST #2876 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
My stepfather brought a gangbanger home from the crazy hospital to stay with us for...three months? But now I can't write about it because it sounds like: Yeah, right. But I swear it is completely true. Although not quite as dramatic as I just made it.
Ginger - Mar 04, 2008 9:28:57 am PST #2877 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I could wildly exaggerate some of the real horrificness, but not while my mother is alive. She'd out me in a New York minute.
shrift - Mar 04, 2008 9:29:04 am PST #2878 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I could write a gritty memoir, but I don't think the royalty check would be worth the awkward conversations I'd have to have with my mother.
shrift - Mar 04, 2008 9:29:06 am PST #2879 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
oops
sumi - Mar 04, 2008 9:29:47 am PST #2880 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Susan - you can do the Laurie King - Mary Russell thing where you can say that you found the memoir in an old trunk in the attic.
Emily - Mar 04, 2008 9:33:30 am PST #2881 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
How annoying.
Nah. Published writer, directly relatable experience. This is ruled appropriate me-ness.
erikaj - Mar 04, 2008 9:35:41 am PST #2882 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Allyson, I hope you do punch her in the face.
tommyrot - Mar 04, 2008 9:37:22 am PST #2883 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 have a sudden hankering for deviled eggs. Do you suppose anyone does deviled egg delivery?