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.")
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*
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.
Hrm, i like the poster idea, but not the idealizing an underdeveloped boy wearing diapers and shooting innocent passerbys. Even with arrows.
Piven's Cupid would agree. He hated the cartooning of his... job.
Great. I just tried to watch TV, and I've got no cable signal.
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.
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.
I was watching that on BBCAmerica a little while ago!
