Steph, I was all "STAPLING??? CRAZYCAKES!!" and then I remembered the whole Shocknife thing at krav where I'd lure the unsuspecting into getting electric shocks by demonstrating on my own inner thigh while maintaining eye contact and smiling. I don't think any women ever fell for it, but just about every guy would. And then they'd look at me with such anger and betrayal, because, honestly, that shit hurt like a BITCH.
Yet? It never got old. I kept shocking myself over and over because it was so rewarding to see other people get shocked.
Oh, yeah! I meant to cite your Shocknife thing back at you when you said the stapling was crazy (you've mentioned the Shocknife before, because I went home and googled it, and concluded that the fucker who invented it MUST be kinky).
And the thing is? I only did the stapling once; you did the Shocknife over and over. CRAZYCAKES.
"And ita ups the ante in the 2011 Own Your Crazy contest with Tep. Who will flinch? Or rather who won't flinch?"
I might have breadth of experience, but ita ! definitely has the advantage in repeat experience. (Granted, there are plenty of things I repeat, but not the damn stapler.)
I'd never get stapled because it breaks the skin and I scar like the fragile little flower I am. Nothing bigger than an IV needle will I voluntarily let pierce my flesh temporarily.
Apparently, however, if it won't mark I don't have so much of a problem. Or I'm just so sadistic that my masochism can't compare.
The shocknife rules, though! I was totally the one that got them to get one at krav, and it was like my little pet project from there on in.
I can see a dog being OK with the whole dress-up thing, because they often like attention and pleasing their human. I'm not saying they'd be sitting there debating the merits of a Little Bo Peep costume vs a frog costume. But a number of them would probably be, "Huh. Attention and pettings. OK, whatever."
Cats, on the other hand, would be plotting their vengence, one and all.
Purple wand?
Don't you mean violet? Or am I thinking of something else?
Purple wand?
Don't you mean violet? Or am I thinking of something else?
It is violet. And it's AWESOME.
The teenagers were good. Other things were... fraught. And I lit a fuse right before I left, so I'm waiting to see if it does what I hoped or blows up in my face. Could go either way.
I do have a question for teacher types if any are around.
I feel awful about my self-evaluation. I was such a bullshitter on it. Not verbose, like I'm supposed to be in general, but I did break out the thesaurus. It's pretty shameful.
Thanks to a reminder on another board I have just named my tablet Arya. It feels right.
I'm updating my resume.
I'm so depressed; I really don't want to go back into consulting, back to the days of never being able to schedule anything, dealing with horrible clients yelling at me, pressure to make sure all my hours were billable, doing proposals and marketing, eating at my desk every day, and all that.
I need to see if any non-federal public agencies are hiring--except in this economy, who would be?
