just "stuff" - a thread for random, rogue thoughts :D

[butters]

it's frightening to realise that it has been almost two months since i last picked up a book just to read!

reading all the time on here and for other stuff, like job hunting, but to actually disappear into the contents of a book just for pleasure... i miss that

 

[butters]

my first lazy sunday afternoon in ... well, forever! ... a long, hot bath, reading without dropping my book in the water, even the boys were non-combative (there's a first!)... and then i'm called to task (rightly so) about the NPR.

 

[Angeline]

my first lazy sunday afternoon in ... well, forever! ... a long, hot bath, reading without dropping my book in the water, even the boys were non-combative (there's a first!)... and then i'm called to task (rightly so) about the NPR.

Listen you, don't get at all concerned about the NPR business! I am speaking from many years' experience of trying to beat the bushes, beg, etc. to get people to agree to do those reviews. Some folks are wonderful about it--most of the old timers here have done NPRs at one point or another, some doing yeoman's work on it--but these days they are few and far between. I did them myself one and then two days a week for years. It is a mostly thankless job although I always believed that the best reason to do them is that you become a better reviewer and, over time, a better writer. But few people see that last point.

You could revive the thread asking people to commit to doing them one day a week, but most of the people who would agree to that have already done it and are tired of it. Imho it's best to remind folks that they can review if they like and leave it at that.

I'm ok btw. Mom's funeral is tomorrow and I've written the eulogy and done everything I need to prepare myself and my kids for it. EE has been my rock, as always, and we are both looking forward to moving on with this and then going home where I can process it all in my own little space. I am so sick of hotel rooms.



(PS Yeah, I decided I was ready to talk about it here...)

 

[butters]

Listen you, don't get at all concerned about the NPR business! I am speaking from many years' experience of trying to beat the bushes, beg, etc. to get people to agree to do those reviews. Some folks are wonderful about it--most of the old timers here have done NPRs at one point or another, some doing yeoman's work on it--but they are few and far between. I did them myself one and then two days a week for years. It is a mostly thankless job although I always believed that the best reason to do them is that you become a better reviewer and, over time, a better writer. But few people see that last point.

You could revive the thread asking people to commit to doing them one day a week, but most of the people who would agree to that have already done it and are tired of it. Imho it's best to remind folks that they can review if they like and leave it at that.

I'm ok btw. Mom's funeral is tomorrow and I've written the eulogy and done everything I need to prepare myself and my kids for it. EE has been my rock, as always, and we are both looking forward to moving on with this and then going home where I can process it all in my own little space. I am so sick of hotel rooms.



(PS Yeah, I decided I was ready to talk about it here...)

but i'm glad twelveone's broaching the topic, A, tbh - it raises the profile of the thread and maybe others will find their way there i'm truly not beating myself up over it, knowing my own circumstances right now, but do feel the twinges of guilt by association as a mod. it serves as a timely reminder, really.

it's good to know you're rolling with the punches, hon. and hotel rooms are soulless especially when your own bed is waiting. my thoughts go with you for tomorrow, A

 

[CharleyH]

If you are going to talk out of your arse, make sure your diction is crisp.

Arse? Oh, how that word is so not sexy. It's probably the least sexy word in the whole English language. I will gladly talk out of my ass, though - anytime and anywhere, for you.

 

[butters]

Arse? Oh, how that word is so not sexy. It's probably the least sexy word in the whole English language. I will gladly talk out of my ass, though - anytime and anywhere, for you.

oh, i think your purty mouth would suffice, honest

arse!

 

[EroticOrogeny]

I'm probably naive, but what's NPR?
Don't think either National Public Radio or Naval Petroleum Reserve in this context.

 

[butters]

I'm probably naive, but what's NPR?
Don't think either National Public Radio or Naval Petroleum Reserve in this context.

the New Poetry Recommendations thread, EO

 

[Epmd607]

who would win a game of Musical Chairs out of Beaudelaire, Milton, and Eliot?

Baudelaire would win as he's French. He'd pull the blind man's britches down and distract Thomas with a Swedish cigarette.

 

[ishtat]

Why are ears so pretty, so nibbly, so kissable but elbows, so not?

 

[Angeline]

We're going home today. Yay, home. Won't get there till sometime tomorrow but we're on the road there soon. Yay home and my own bed with its lavender-scented sheets and my T next to me. Other beds are too big or too small, but mine is just right.

 

[butters]

We're going home today. Yay, home. Won't get there till sometime tomorrow but we're on the road there soon. Yay home and my own bed with its lavender-scented sheets and my T next to me. Other beds are too big or too small, but mine is just right.

you must be exhausted. and home is a sweet word, lavender-scented or no. travel safely, angiebaby

 

[bronzeage]

Why do the weasels always come to my office to get warm when it's cold outside.

 

[Angeline]

you must be exhausted. and home is a sweet word, lavender-scented or no. travel safely, angiebaby

Merci, sweet girl.

We just checked into a hotel in Virginia, about 350 miles south of where we were this morning. And believe it or not it is about 20 degrees colder here! But we are warm and cozy for now and I can see our beautiful mountains in the distance. I can't tell you how happy that makes me, but I bet you can guess.

And whee I found some pirate temporary tattoos for my daughter's Christmas stocking (yes I am Jewish, but my kids celebrate any denomination's holiday that involves gifts lol). My girl is a sort of grown up college student but she loves her some pirates.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Why do the weasels always come to my office to get warm when it's cold outside.

Eagle soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Just heard this today. Happiness (& related i-phone app)
Pleasant mind wandering!

 

[vrosej10]

Eagle soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines

Holy Crap Under Your Spell! ROFL and nearly wetting myself to boot. That's even funnier when you know my son is affectionately known as Ratweasel to our family.

 

[HAMFAN]

The question is not who but whether

who would win a game of Musical Chairs out of Beaudelaire, Milton, and Eliot?

Milton was blind so he wouldn't know where the chairs where after going round in circles
Eliot would be wondering why anyone would want to sit in a heap of broken rubbish ... or whether you could after going round in circles
And Baudelaire? ... would probably wonder how you sit in green ... especially after getting solid going round in circles
(or maybe that Rimbaud ... its a worry at my age ... this going round in circles bit)

 

[butters]

 

[butters]

why are hotdogs called hotdogs? seems a strange name for them.

 

[butters]

why do sons put empty milk bottles back in the fridge? sigh

 

[butters]

i think they meant to write hollows, but hallows/ed works so much better. *shrugs*

 

[vrosej10]

why do people say shit like' but i have black friends' and back it up with a statement that the KKK would consider immoderate?

 

[EroticOrogeny]

why are hotdogs called hotdogs? seems a strange name for them.

Are you asking about the food or the designation for someone doing crazy stunts?
Don't know the answer to either, but think sausage usage may precede others.

 

[butters]

Are you asking about the food or the designation for someone doing crazy stunts?
Don't know the answer to either, but think sausage usage may precede others.

the food. i suppose i could google the origins but i am too lazy

good holiday, EO?