Don't get mad -- get surreal

[scotjohn]

I was just "talking" with my friend lastcallforcorn about an old coping strategy of mine. When my life got really bizarre, I tried to be even weirder than my life, just to show it who's boss. Helps me keep my sense of humor and feel like everything's not totally out of my control

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[lastcallforcorn]

i really did laugh out loud. :) "orange day" nearly made me blow coffee out my stuffy nose. (maybe it would have helped...)

these made me remember one of mine-- go out to lunch alone and build a relief sculpture on your plate from the bits you don't eat, preferably a creature with a face to greet the restaurant staff when they come to clear the table. order a huge dessert and tea.

[scotjohn]

Hooray for the lunch creature! And for nearly blowing coffee out your nose.

The lunch creature reminds me of when I created Sputnik for the lunch people. (Take apple, insert two dozen forks at random angles. Send through college lunch-dishes conveyor belt.)

Jenifer points out that I own almost nothing orange, and therefore I'd need to go naked. I submit that I could consider khaki "sufficiently orange." (See, loophole there.) But I bet Elizabeth could do a stand-up job of Orange Day.

[flutterby__]

haha, great list!