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bini_bini

Getting dumped!

Jan 24, 2005 00:21

I got dumped today. Actually, I got dumped four or five times today by dirty great waves at Henley Beach. Ironically, it was far more humiliating and embarrassing than any relationship dump I've experienced. Truth be told, I've never been romantically dumped but that's just another chapter in the saga of my 'commitment-phobic' story ( Read more... )

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name_omitted January 23 2005, 08:59:11 UTC

Every once in a while, the time comes for me to go to a good beach in a storm surge, and get thrown around. At some 137 kilos, I don't get thrown around by much, but it is good for a lad's humility when it happens.

Besides which, it is much less disconcerting than being thrown around by wind, which also, on occasion, happens, although I DON'T seek out that sensation.

bini_bini January 24 2005, 05:19:53 UTC

I think that's called 'pick your element'! They can be humbling,can't they. Obviously, I wouldn't wish natural disaster on anyone but I do love it when you go out on a day when the climate or conditions really give you a beating. Sado-masochism for environmentalists :).

name_omitted January 24 2005, 05:54:50 UTC

One of the more humbling moments for me was to go out in the storm one night, when I heard the civil defense sirens, and play in the amazing rain and wind- while tornados were ripping apart the neighboring towns. I did not realize it at the time, however, I just knew a grand storm when I saw it.

Throughout the week, when I was in St. Peter cleaning up after the tornado, I was marveling. We were trying to match bricks to the buildings they came from to facilitate the re-construction. The team I lead found a limestone chimney spread over a 4 block radius.

bini_bini January 24 2005, 06:08:29 UTC

Its bushfires here in Oz that really awe me. The devastation is horrendous but I can't help thinking the actual fire is beautiful and the noise is just incredible. I can see why so many cultures view fire as cleansing.

This is a bit trivial but the mental image of a 137 kg man standing in the rain, being whipped about by huge winds and wearing bunny ears and a red rose is fairly comical.

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bini_bini January 24 2005, 05:25:21 UTC

It was the first time I'd been in the water since I got back to Oz and I really enjoyed the contrast. I remember the first time I swam in Bohol and was really shocked by how salty the water was.

I am a traitor to my kind and do go the bikini wax on occasion although I did hot-foot it out of a Manila salon once when the young girl got out a razor and tweezers and pointed them in the direction of my nether-regions...I might be a touch vain but I do draw the line!

firstashore January 26 2005, 21:16:41 UTC

No need for eye-watering waxing!

Also provides room for enough padding to prevent stirring up a shark feeding frenzy, eh m'dear? O:-)

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bushwalker January 23 2005, 15:52:11 UTC

I'm rather partial to the tankini. Enables breastfeeding access and hides the stretch marks. I have 3 pairs.

Some might argue that being post humiliation is success itself. It depends on what you think success is about and what specific achievements it entails really. But a trip to the beach will always send you past humiliation to the viseral reality of being alive!

bini_bini January 24 2005, 05:31:29 UTC

Oh, so true. I always feel victorious every time I conquer a fear or hang-up. I think most of the time humiliation is only possible when you think others are looking and judging and you fear what they might think. The more distance I put between myself and adolescence, the closer I get to post humiliation!

bushwalker January 24 2005, 15:12:26 UTC

I think it only gets better! I'm looking forward to being a naughty old lady who gets up to mischief. >op

omegadaxer January 24 2005, 20:42:50 UTC

I was wondering...have you read "Ice Age" by Margaret Drabble?

If you could get back to me ASAP, that'd be great. I'm terribly sorry for barging in on your journal like this, but I have a project due on it in a few days, and the local bookstores don't carry it. I was stupid enough to not check into that beforehand, and am now in a mess. If you have read it and could spare just a little time to even give a summary of the plot or anything like it, I would be most appreciatve. Or if you knew somewhere I could find one, but so far I've had no luck.

Thank you and sorry again,
Dax

bini_bini January 25 2005, 06:07:58 UTC

Sorry Dax, I haven't and I know from personal experience that finding out of print Drabble can be a real bitch. What's your project?

omegadaxer January 26 2005, 05:30:18 UTC

It's perfectly fine, and thank you for responding.

I have to create a master plot of the story, along with 5 dialectical journals and a panel presentation. This is all very hard to accomplish without a copy of the book. =(

I have Pygmalion rehearsal every day until 12:00 PM after school this week, which is how I ended up in this predicament. Had I been more aware of this, I wouldn't have been so careless.

Thank you again.