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[fajrdrako]

Nice day. Oh, I love holidays!

Breakfast at Tucson's with maaseru and Yolande. Afterwards we went to the Byward Market, to browse Chapter's a little. I got a wonderful book: The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City, a book I've longed for all my life. We went into the Market then, where I bought a shirt and Yolande bought 'sweet caramel' corn which I cooked for lunch for us all. maaseru and I are on a quest to find corn that is not so sweet. This wasn't it, but it was still enjoyable.

Then I worked on my current Torchwood story, did some housework, and wrapped birthday presents. I followed golden_hinde's advice and used a sterilized safety pin to pierce my left ear, where the hole had closed up; then I was able to put on my Star Trek earrings. New ambition: To fix the earrings I have (many of which are now singles) and get a few more.

Beulah came over and fixed the broken arm of my sofa, and then we both went to the Yangtze Restaurant at the corner of Somerset St. W. and Cambridge St. N. for Tasia's birthday party. There were about twenty people there, including StarWolf, Sheila, Andrea, Paul, Donna, Christine, John, Janet, some friends of Tasia's who aren't familiar to me from fandom, and, of course, Tasia and Peter. I gave her John Barrowman's autobiograhy, Anything Goes.

I wore a dress, joking that I thought no one would recognize me in one. Received much admiration, surprise, and downright incredulity. Donna said they's all have to stop complimenting me or it's go to my head and I'd go all femmy and start wearing dresses all the time, and make-up too. Hmm. Wouldn't that surprise them all.

Afterwards: exercises, listening to Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms.

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

You amaze me every time you do something like re-open the piercing in your left ear... you, who once were unable to help me when I cut myself because of your reaction to the blood and the situation. You are amazing.

And, if you were to take to wearing skirts more, and doing make-up, so? I think it would be wonderful. Go ahead!

Feeling ambiently lonely because of having missed yet another friend get-together... ah, so it goes.

(But I'm still flying high from Monday night, when I found out that I had managed to sign up four new members to our union. Yow!!!)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You amaze me every time you do something like re-open the piercing in your left ear... you, who once were unable to help me when I cut myself because of your reaction to the blood and the situation.

My phobia or squick or whatever it is doesn't really include being hurt myself - it's a problem with seeing other people hurt or bleeding or damaged. I hasten to add that I don't like being hurt, mangled or maimed myself, but that isn't a phobia, that's just disinclination to suffer.

I make no promises to wear skirts and dresses all the time, but I do plan to do it more. Just because I feel like it - a sense of change.

Four new members - congratulations!

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

This nes thing where they have stuck advertisement things all over the place is messing up my sense of balance on the page, here. But I guess there are worse things than having ads on your page, huh?

My phobia or squick or whatever it is doesn't really include being hurt myself - it's a problem with seeing other people hurt or bleeding or damaged.

Oh. Interesting. I see, now. It's sometimes easier for me to deal with my own situation than with someone else's, but I've also been trained in first aid and I do know that I can handle such situations when they arise... which is a very good feelling to have.

I hasten to add that I don't like being hurt, mangled or maimed myself, but that isn't a phobia, that's just disinclination to suffer.

No need to mention. I kind of picked up on that [g].

I make no promises to wear skirts and dresses all the time, but I do plan to do it more. Just because I feel like it - a sense of change.

"Just because I like it" is a wonderful reason for doing anything.

Four new members - congratulations!

Yeah. Now, I just need to get their application forms into my hands! I hope the buzz of seeing that we are a totally separate entity from their former union does not wear off before that happens! I doubt that it will. These people seem to be fully aware of the lousy support their former union local gave them, and they were all quite excited to read our Local Memorandum of Understanding and constitution. So, now, should I be scared that one of them will run against me in the next election? hee

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What's 'nes' mean? Oh, wait, I know what you mean - you probably meant to type 'new' - do you have one of the LJs with ads?

I don't have ads on my page, but I'm thinking of getting a paid LJ anyway.

I've also been trained in first aid and I do know that I can handle such situations when they arise...

Me too, but that does nothing to control the phobia.

"Just because I like it" is a wonderful reason for doing anything.

Yup, I think so.

Good luck with the new union folks.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

What's 'nes' mean? Oh, wait, I know what you mean - you probably meant to type 'new' - do you have one of the LJs with ads?

It means my fingers slipped. I had to look at it a few times, too, there! yes, "new."

No, mine is still bare of them; I just went over and checked. I should write something over there, huh? it's been a few time units since the last time I did.

I don't have ads on my page, but I'm thinking of getting a paid LJ anyway.

You now have little boxes along the left margin, and they say "advertisement." You also now have lists of choices falling between the message I'm replying to and my reply area -- which makes it impossible for me now to keep your message in sight as I write my reply. This is new, since a few weeks ago.

I've also been trained in first aid and I do know that I can handle such situations when they arise...

Me too, but that does nothing to control the phobia.

Ah. I empathize. If it were someone I cared about and it were a serious situation, I would act but I would be ripped up inside as I did so. Let's hope, both of us, that those situations will not arise.

"Just because I like it" is a wonderful reason for doing anything.

Yup, I think so.

Heh.

Good luck with the new union folks.

Thanks. I expect they won't let me down. I'm gonna phone tonight and talk to one of them, Linda Jones, who was a friend of mine eleven years ago when I was still there... a good person, very sensible... and pretty much the senior one of our new transferees. At times like this, I hate haveing mid-week days off, as it makes it harder to keep connected to situations as they are developing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

it's been a few time units since the last time I did.

Time units? You sound like StarWolf!

You don't have to write in your LJ if you don't want to. I always think it's a shame to see abandoned LJs. Some people (like me) enjoy posting. Some don't. No reason to do it if it doesn't bring you pleasure.

You now have little boxes along the left margin, and they say "advertisement."

I think that's in your settings, not mine. Or at least, I don't see what you do there, either in my friends setting or in my own LJ, or in other people's - unless they have ads, then I see the ads.

In a first-aid emergency I with someone I cared about I like to think I could cope becuase I'd have to. The phobia is stronger with strangers, particularly anonymous strangers, or characters on TV and in movies.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I do like to write in my LJ. I just never find the time for it. So much more I'd be able to accomplish if I didn't have to spend a total of two and a half hours each day commuting to and from my job.

I say "time units" because I still remember Quizlet fondly... LLL!

In a first-aid emergency I with someone I cared about I like to think I could cope becuase I'd have to. The phobia is stronger with strangers, particularly anonymous strangers, or characters on TV and in movies.

Then don't under any circumstances watch the new X-Files movie. But, there are some fannish questions I would like to ask you about it...?

Stronger with anonymous strangers, and with fictional characters you see visually? Hm!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So what are the fannish X-Files questions you have?

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Why was Mulder living in a house that Scully seemed also to be living in, somewhere in the western, more rural parts of either Virginia or Maryland? Why were they sleeping in the same bed? What happened to disconnect Mulder from the FBI? I lost track: last I knew, he was missing, and Scully was trying to figure out what had become of him (didn't see the last two seasons at all, I think). Scully had a baby, right? Named William after... after whom? Why does she now not have her child...?

That's for the start. Hm?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't know the answers to those questions but I had thought Mulder and Scully married at the end of the TV series, which would be why they were living together.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Married. Oh. Yep, that would explain the shared bed. And the coziness.

Thanks! Sorry you don't know, either!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

If I find out, I'll tell you.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

The USA Today review actually took the movie to task for the bedroom scene being "without sparks." Well, yeah, sometimes you just sleep [g]. It was, I thought, a wonderful and comfy little scene. They talked, they kissed, Scully broke it off with a muttered exclamation about "Ooh, scratchy beard!" and they grinned at each other and went back to sleep. And Mulder shaved the beard off the next day.

What I hated about the movie was that they introduced a wonderful new character, then threw her off a building two-thirds of the way through the movie. Frak that! And this character's FBI partner made two homophobic remarks that somehow didn't register with any reviewers that I saw. But I was bothered by them, especially because he was a black man, and American black men are much more likely to be openly intolerant of gays -- it's a subculture thing. "[Character X], to whom he's legally married in the state of Massachusetts" was one (they were neither openly/obviously gay, nor any other indication they were anything but friends and business partners) and the other one I now forget. Don't need that stuff. I was upset with Chris Carter for putting that kind of crap in and letting it serve as characterization for this black FBI agent.

Billy Connolly was awesome, however.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Mulder shaved the beard off the next day.

Aww, that's cute.

So hadn't they been together for a while?

I don't understand about the remark being homophobic - ? because they specified he was married in Massachusetts?