giant slalom

[elysesewell]

I've been struggling not to let the cold weather shrink my world: it's so easy to come home from from my day's ladypose, rip off my false eyelashes and stick them to the wall, boil up some rooibos with cut-up ginger, and collapse into bed with a piece of the dogshit British "chicklit" library I have amassed (and oh god, that is a bleak genre. If

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Brit-chick-lit

[anonymous]

As a British girl living in a town where the average bookshop consists only of poor chick lit and misery memoirs, I consider myself a master of the genre, and have to say that your outline of the constants is pretty accurate.
But how could you forget the frequency with which characters sit glumly nursing mugs of tea thinking of their lost beau?

Come on, that's the very best bit.

[romperwebby]

damn ancient skinny skis!

[ex_flumes427]

for real!

[cellophanestarr]

Trying to figure out if the "Swallow" brand ski is Engrish...

[elysesewell]

I think it's a Salomon knockoff.

[daitenshi_dream]

Swallow skis is actually a small Japanese brand, but I believe they're made for cross-country, not downhill.

The "splayed like a starfish" image reminds of Maggie from the Simpsons in her starfish ski suit.

[anonymous]

British Chick Lit will also always talk about getting something at "Marks and Sparks."

[talkingtocactus]

but marks and spark *is* awesome. although i think most of us stopped calling it that in about 1988.

[javafox]

These are not just pants.

These are M&S pants.

(Thought I'd riff a bit :-) )

[talkingtocactus]

just don't tell paxo ;)

[tragic_and_hip]

I love the indoor ski joints in korea, can you drink beer at the ones in Shanghai?

[sarahmarae]

Wow, that just seems like a terrible idea.... I like it!

[tragic_and_hip]

nothing says bunny slope, like a frosty hite!

[elysesewell]

No! This one didn't even have a snack bar, just a smoking lounge. Knowing China, I'm surprised you couldn't smoke right on the slopes. Nothin' like an xtra strong Double Happiness butt on the poma lift, I always say.