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I hope your butt is warmer than mine.
I may have been a little misleading when I said I would be busy for the next few days. I don't know if "busy waiting" is one of those contradictions in terms, like "jumbo shrimp," but nevertheless I am busy waiting, soon to be busy freezing if I sit here much longer. I am sitting on a marble bench. Originally I sat here in the hope that I would ( Read more... ) -
Type-A? Me?
I have just been informed I'm being dragged out to do something tonight on the grounds that I am a workaholic. And I am like, aw, guys, really, you shouldn't. No really, you shouldn't. NO. REALLY.
But I have no agency at all in this matter and am being told to either choose a group activity or it will be chosen for me. I'm currently threatening ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol 7, Week 11: Haute
"I gave to a pink the nerve of a red." --Elsa Schiaparelli
Schiap was what the French, with their gift for impeccably polite backhanded compliments, might call jolie-laide, vivacious and charming enough that her unconventional beauty could be forgiven (ugliness of course being unforgivable in a female).
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Happy Monday, All!
(This song is a little melancholy for a wake-up tune. Actually I have no real problem with Mondays.)
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LJ Idol, Week Ten: Icarus
I'm not a girl with a lot of regrets.
But last time they let me have wings.
No, not symbolic wings. Real, actual, literal wings! Ebony black shining ones that hardly weighed anything at all. I don't recall knocking over any chairs when I sat down or having any problems with clothing. They never got in the way. They were part of me.
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Irreversible
In the beginning, the world was perfect, because there was no time. There was no loss, no death, no old age, no disease, no need for parting, no longing, no desires. Everything lasted forever, whatever a word like "forever" means in a world where time does not pass. There was only one creation, contained and perfect, like the pristine world ( Read more... ) -
Color Theory
All languages have a term for black and white; that is, they have a term for "dark" and "light." Dark can be anything from black to deep blue to whatever you call the color it is when there is no light. Light can be anything from pure white to yellow to pale.
If they have a third color, it will be red.
If they have a fourth, it will be green or ( Read more... ) -
The Smoking Guns
Non-Smoking Self-Congratulatory Colleague has fallen off the wagon. I don't think it happened today, but today was the day it became public. Part of it was the scent of smoke that started creeping out of the bathroom. Part of it was that that before she needed a secret place to smoke in, we didn't have a bathroom. And part of it was that one of ( Read more... )
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