I know some folks here are big Amazing Race fans, and have talked about doing the show...well, if you can't get on the show, there's opportunities to so something similar. Costs money, but if you win, you basically get your money back and a bit more! :) You're not on TV, but OTOH, you don't have to (a) make it on TV and (b) make a fool of yourself on TV! :)
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
meara - Feb 12, 2010 11:23:26 pm PST #9931 of 30000
erin_obscure - Feb 13, 2010 12:30:19 am PST #9932 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
It's a holiday based on (one or more) Catholic Saint(s).
Imma gonna go with only as secular as hallmark and the diamond industry has made it but still utterly based on one group's religious persecution complex. Right up there with christmas, albeit far more sugar-saturated. Not that i'm against february holiday - the month needs more of them, especially ones involving chocolate. Just not with the tormented St., pls.
If my employer tried to make me participate in exchanging paper cards, you can bet i would end up with a human skull decorated with flowers outside my cubicle as a "mailbox" for said misery.
(ok, maybe a ceramic human skull, people do get antsy about actual remains.) (and not that i have a cublic. Or even a desk. Or a workplace that would encourage such a thing. I'm pretty sure it would lead to many infractions against the codified "anti-bullying handbook.")
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Feb 13, 2010 2:10:19 am PST #9933 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Skipping 150 posts. It's been about three days of migraines and overwork and exhaustion and now I am in bed having a pyjama extended-morning with the internet and sitcoms on the DVD player AIFG.
The Girl and I don't really bother with Valentine's Day. She's making dinner, but then she usually does! We're going away for a bit of a break in a little cottage in the countryside next week, though. But that is not related to any kind of holiday.
Fuck, I AM 32! When did I turn 32? SHIT, I got old and didn't realize it? That means I'll be 33 this year?? CRAP
I had much the same reaction to 31 last year. I expect this year to be even more WTF-worthy.
I am working on a blog for my research profile and sociology-related thoughts. The idea of a non-anonymous, public page on the internet is weird. *twitch* *twitchtwitch*
WindSparrow - Feb 13, 2010 2:58:19 am PST #9934 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Not that i'm against february holiday - the month needs more of them, especially ones involving chocolate. Just not with the tormented St., pls.
Rename it Cupid's Day? And put up lots of posters of Jeremy Piven, of course.
erin_obscure - Feb 13, 2010 3:29:26 am PST #9935 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Hrm, i like the poster idea, but not the idealizing an underdeveloped boy wearing diapers and shooting innocent passerbys. Even with arrows.
DCJensen - Feb 13, 2010 3:58:21 am PST #9936 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Piven's Cupid would agree. He hated the cartooning of his... job.
Ginger - Feb 13, 2010 4:28:10 am PST #9937 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Fuck, I AM 32! When did I turn 32? SHIT, I got old and didn't realize it? That means I'll be 33 this year?? CRAP
I had much the same reaction to 31 last year. I expect this year to be even more WTF-worthy.
Ah, youth.
Hil R. - Feb 13, 2010 4:34:34 am PST #9938 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Great. I just tried to watch TV, and I've got no cable signal.
Steph L. - Feb 13, 2010 7:04:40 am PST #9939 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Not that i'm against february holiday - the month needs more of them, especially ones involving chocolate. Just not with the tormented St., pls.
Make your own holiday. EVERY day can be "Because I Want Chocolate And Don't Want To Kowtow To Anyone Else's Idea Of What A Holiday Is And By The Way All The Holiday Symbols Are ASS And Did I Mention I Want Chocolate?" Day.
Hard to fit on a calendar, though. So, rock on. Go get yourself some chocolate today.
I *do* think a company trying to enforce their employee's participation in an holiday that is putatively about romance is a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen, but hey, live dangerously.
Other than that, I got no quarrel with V-Day. I like it. Underdeveloped boy wearing a diaper and shooting people, tortured saint, and all.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Feb 13, 2010 7:42:46 am PST #9940 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
The Other One has persuaded me to watch the rugby with her (by which I mean, I'm playing with social networking while she talks rubbish to which I do not respond). Ireland is losing to France. This is apparently a Bad Thing.
Examples of her wittering at the telly:
"They're fifteen behind. They're not coming back from that."
"O'Gara looks quite a lot like Prince William. No. Harry. No. William. No. I know which one I mean."
"Kick it. Kick it. Kick it. Kick it. Kick it. KILL HIM."
OK then.