I'm giving you that chance to prove the openness of the average Jersian!
I'm sorry, this is the point at which you are required to state that you are for Polygamy and Polyandry and any other form of marriage that allows people in love to be happy. Otherwise, you hate diversity, tolerance, Mormons and Muslims...
Who are you to judge their culture?
INTOLERANT!
I cannot talk with the judgmental...
I may have to put you on ignore. IN KANSAS we keep a more open mind to other cultures...
I'm an anomaly, in more ways than one.
That is weird.
Have you seen Ice Age?
Manny:
"What am I? The wet nurse? What are you lookin' at, bone bag?
Look at you. You're gonna grow into a great predator. I don't think so. What have you got? You got a little patch of fur. No fangs, no claws.
You're folds of skin wrapped in mush.
What's so threatening about you?"
i blush easily. always have. often inappropriately.
and that's the bummer - i blush because i've attracted attention to myself and that serves to further the attention and makes me uncomfortable. it's a no-win thing. i don't blush prettily, it's a full-on deep glow. ugh.
so i'm dysfunctional now. great.
i blame my mother. as a kid, i remember with extreme clarity her expressing what may have been a throwaway comment: ladies don't behave that way in public, bringing attention to themselves. holy crap, am i hung up on not being ladylike? *groans* when i was at work in london offices, a colleague explained this to me: swallow three times without breathing inbetween swallows, your hiccups go away. and that wasn't in a sexually-linked situation, either. and he was right. it controls the diaphragm thingummy. that little odd bit inside that jumps up and down with the hiccuping. he said he was taught it in basic army training. don't know if he was spinning me a story, though
and when did hiccups become hiccups and not hiccoughs? (stupid english word )
i blush easily. always have. often inappropriately.
not the sex-flush thing, mind - that's a given, specially with my fair colouring. even if i'm engagin' the brain quite hard with some computer-struggle (flaming things) then the upsurge of blood to my brain (to push oxygen into the places needing more thinking-power) causes flushed cheeks, throat and upper front chest
but normal, regular blushing? it all stems (for me) about bringing attention to myself as me. not online, in the flesh. not acting, since that's not me. not about discussing my writing, that's my writing. i can tell a huge lie and not blush, because it's almost always a case of letting others know immediately it's a story and more about trying out an idea. BUT i can tell the smallest thing about myself, non-sexual, silly things, and flush the deepest purple. wtf? the worst of it is that i know people associate blushing with lying or sexual connotation, and don't want them to get that impression which then serves to embarrass me more!
i remember from school, a teacher reading my work over my shoulder and commenting to the class how he wished others would read what i wrote because they'd get a better idea of what they should be doing. holy crap. not because he was, in fact, praising my writing, but the fact he was drawing a huge red arrow aimed at me and suspending it over my head. i burned with embarrassment. it's not a great thing to do to a kid in a class full of kids, some of whom already had ideas about snobbery and elitism where i was concerned when all i wanted to do was be pretty much invisible then.
and that's the bummer - i blush because i've attracted attention to myself and that serves to further the attention and makes me uncomfortable. it's a no-win thing. i don't blush prettily, it's a full-on deep glow. ugh.
so i'm dysfunctional now. great.
when i was at work in london offices, a colleague explained this to me: swallow three times without breathing inbetween swallows, your hiccups go away. and that wasn't in a sexually-linked situation, either. and he was right. it controls the diaphragm thingummy. that little odd bit inside that jumps up and down with the hiccuping. he said he was taught it in basic army training. don't know if he was spinning me a story, though
i need debugging
you're an anomaly! (re teh breathing thing
Henry VIII
