I'm bored. And lazy. I want someone to bring me cake. And also go out to dinner with me. ...I realize these are slightly contradictory. If someone agreed to go to dinner with me, I would probably have enough oomph to go GET cake. Cupcake. Something.
...hrmph.
Tomorrow I am having lunch with an ex-boss to talk about the possibility of her new company having an opening in a few months. What do I wear? What do I bring? Eep! I'm thinking nice but not really businessy, since I work from home, but she's fairly stylish. But it will be a (casual) Friday. I don't plan to bring my resume (I've only had the one job since I worked for her) but have it ready to send after.
yeah, I don't get danger from romantic/Romantic - adventure, sure, freedom, sure, passion, sure. None of that has to mean danger or violence or badness - not to me.
And, according to Wordnik:
Some things Romance means
4. A mysterious or fascinating quality or appeal, as of something adventurous, heroic, or strangely beautiful:
6. A long fictitious tale of heroes and extraordinary or mysterious events, usually set in a distant time or place.
Neither of those really apply to pirates. The rest deal with sexual love or romance langauge.
4. A mysterious or fascinating quality or appeal, as of something adventurous, heroic, or strangely beautiful
Well, Pirates are certainly adventurous.
As far as Pirate Utopias... the Antebellum South was a bit of a Utopia too -- it certainly is to the people who think it will rise again. Sparta was great as long as you were strong. Athens was great if you weren't a woman. As soon as we can concoct a paradise that isn't dependant on the exploitation on a chunk of humans I'll feel comfortable calling it a utopia.
When I was a kid I lived on an island with a pirate history. All the teams were pirates. The annual festival had pirate costume contests. It was deffinately a "thing".
But hand in hand with all the fun there was frequent mention of, "You know these weren't great guys, right? They were murderers. They were thieves. This is a game." I don't really see that in the pirate glee nowadays.
ita, so very you even if it isn't silver!
Or this one.
What the fuck with Hotmail wanting me to get a windows LIVE id to get to my fucking mail and then not letting me get one?
I just want to check my fucking mail. I was able to an hour ago. Fuckers.
And, according to Wordnik:
It has to do with a literary tradition derived from Medieval Romances. To cite a dictionary in this instance is like saying the Ramones aren't punk rock because Merriam-Webster said the Sex Pistols are punk rock. You're cherry picking one of many meanings and missing the entire history.
To argue that pirates are not romantic figures is so far from my frame of reference that I don't even have the energy to connect the dots from Amadis of Gaul to Orlando Furioso to Dafoe to Byron to Robert Louis Stevenson to Sabatini to the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Pretty much anyone can be a romantic figure if you hype them enough. Dick Cheney? Outsider! Rebel! Not held captive by silly laws! Thirst for power! blah blah blah
Aiee! I miss new clothes. Not that I have much call to wear much variety, but those pieces make me drool, Kat.
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Ah, nothing like a hot shower to even a temper.
