Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
I murdered the hated bush out front. Pruning would be too kind a word. I'm going to still have to borrow the proffered saw from my neighbor to finish up the job, but I have 4 bags of branches as proof something was accomplished.
My hands are going to hurt tomorrow. Still want to walk the lake, but I think it is too hot for that after this activity. I'm filthy.
They're taking the linguistic angle of graffiti as "inscribed" in the form of governmental warnings, instructions, "how to take said medicine"
So they're writing about things like the signs by the elevators at my last company, the ones that said "In case of fire, do not take elevators. Take 'exit' stairs?" Those are the ones that left me wondering, "Are they just exit stairs? Can't I use them to enter? How are exit stairs different from regular stairs? Do they not really 'exit' at all?"
That too, Ginger. I believe that part is somewhere between the "infantialize the consumers", the rise of the risk society and of course, Foucault's "docile bodies".
Can't do statistics. Going to stare at the tv and drink minted-lemonade.
Take 'exit' stairs?" Those are the ones that left me wondering, "Are they just exit stairs? Can't I use them to enter?
One of our banks of stairs in our building is specially designed for [something I can't really remember related to fire]. You can enter on any floor but only get out at the lobby. So yeah, exit stairs. (And since we're on the 47th floor, you learn pretty quick which is which.)
Happy Birthday, Aims!
I have to buy a dress to wear to a wedding. Anyone want to shop for me?
Allyson, totally appropriate to name drop to the douchebag. What an ass.
Grrr. Owen wants my Simpsons stamps to send his "letters." Every time I need a stamp, I can never find one. Because the kids end up using them like stickers. He's very upset now.
I can report that Haagen-Dazs' caramelized hazelnut gianduja ice cream is really fucking tasty.
Bathroom humour, or horror: [link]
Happy Birthday Aimée!
I read ellipses and the massive use of them as is the email was written by a 20 something tubercular woman in the 18th century with a faint voice. I read "Will see you... sure it'll be a blast... gotta go now... love 'ya" and can't help but thinking "Noooo! Don't die!".
When I read someone's writing in that style I always mentally "hear" them in William Shatnerese.
"Must defeat Khan... before he can sabotage... the warp core!"