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[yiskah]

I am having a good week, and productivity is unusually high. I am getting work done, and I'm about 8 inches into my lacy scarf, which I've only been working on since Sunday; on Monday night I made a borscht which, if I do say to myself, was delicious, and last night class_worrier made an absolutely FABULOUS tofu noodle soup thing that I would like to eat forever, and which we both agreed is the most grown-up thing that has ever been made in our household. I am making progress towards my Pop Vultures debut, and in just over an hour I am having a high-powered journalistic luncheon with circumlocute, where we will be conducting SERIOUS BUSINESS and not just having a gossip. Yes. Even the fact that the spending review that may well make me redundant is coming out today, and I woke myself up at 4am by punching myself in the eye, I am feeling good.

So anyway! ANONYMOUS COMMENTS WEDNESDAY. IP logging is off, as ever. Tell me things! Play nice, though.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

there seems to be a trend on my f-list of people starting to write as if we were their adoring audience rather than friends/peers. it annoys me. (don't know if it's anyone we have in common)

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of people on LJ who annoy me for similar reasons, neither of whom are on my f'list, but whose journals I occasionally visit just to annoy myself...

[(Anonymous)]

I am becoming a bit worried about my taste in boys (and I mean boys, not men). Why am I finding boys like Rupert Grint, Shia LeBeouf and one of the members of McFly attractive? They are babies! (But hopefully all over the age of 18, or I will feel sick). Perhaps it is my quarter-life crisis or something, but I'd like it to stop please. Need to like more manly men, like...um...Sean Bean or somebody.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Rupert Grint is 19, and Shia LaBeouf (whom I'd never heard of) appears to be 21, according to imdb, so you're safe. Not sure about the member of McFly, though.

I have lost any respect I may ever have had for Sean Bean thanks to the frankly execrable-looking Beowulf.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worried that I will break my clitoris by using a vibrator too much and too hard.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, although the fact that it's still settling down from a sex change probably has something to do with it.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Dwd, I can't wait to see you! Oh wait. That was not very anonymous.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I know! I was looking at the pics in your latest entry and realising that the flat is going to look TOTALLY DIFFERENT from when I was there, omg.

I am arriving annoyingly late on the Friday night, unfortunately, but I plan to make you sit up drinking with me till dawn.

[(Anonymous)]

The woman is a bloody idiot, and is not quite as wonderful as she makes out.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone's as wonderful as they make out, mostly.

Things that make less and less sense to me the more I think about them

[(Anonymous)]

monogamy
nuclear families living in suburbs far from everyone they know
most people's jobs

I don't know what to do about this, if anything.

Re: Things that make less and less sense to me the more I think about them

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the last two, though I think the monogamy thing varies so much depending on how people are wired. I could deal with non-monogamy in the sense of an open relationship, I think, but polyamory holds no appeal for me whatsoever, quite aside from the fact that I can't imagine having the time to maintain multiple meaningful relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

I am scared of commitment to suitable people and drawn to the unsuitable. Why?

[(Anonymous)]

Suitable people tend to have boring shoes.

[(Anonymous)]

What's wrong with knee-length shorts? I bought some yesterday, in some lovely woolly kind-of-denim-but-not-really material, with a belt, and they are wonderfully comfortable and they show off my legs. So why does my boyfriend think they look ridiculous?

[(Anonymous)]

Because they do. They're horrid and they don't suit anyone. For the love of Christ, just don't.

[(Anonymous)]

I seem to be flirting with a married woman who came across me randomly on facebook.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

came across me randomly

Perv. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

I got offered a job back in October and accepted it, filled in all the forms for a medical check and a CRB etc (the job involves children), but I've still heard absolutely nothing about when I'm starting or what hours I'm working, despite leaving several messages at New Job HQ. Is this standard practice or is it rubbish?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

No, that's definitely rubbish! Unless it's public sector, in which case it's possibly standard practice. Sigh.

[my-mundane-life.livejournal.com]

Ooh, can I have the tofu noodle soup thing recipe???! Would love that- yumyum.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I shall try and remember to email it to you this evening - it's apparently very easy! Prod me if I forget.

[(Anonymous)]

I am trying to work out how to explore my bi-curiosity within the bounds of my straight monogamous marriage.

I can't see any way to do so that doesn't involve pain and badstuff of one sort or another. But I WANT TO DAMMIT.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that is difficult, anon! Can you cajole your husband/wife into a threesome?

[(Anonymous)]

We've got chocolates at work that have cheese and fennel and balsamic vinegar in. They are 'gourmet' apparently. I am not having one because this all seems very wrong.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

ultraruby bought me and class_worrier some posh chocs for our anniversary that were gourmet, with things like strawberry and black pepper, and chilli in them, and I initially feared them a little but they turned out to be LOVELY. Perhaps yours will be like that? Though I would steer clear of the cheese ones.

[(Anonymous)]

Every time I pass the cygnets in the park near my office I say "hello, cygs" in the manner of Jerry Seinfeld greeting his nemesis, Newman.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha! Ah, anon, you are a person after my own heart.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I'm so glad you did this because I've been meaning to ask you something and this makes it more fun. I think I have missed something in your journal about you having met exliontamer in a previous life and I was very confused reading a recent entry. So now I want to know the whole story, all the details.

Also every time I read that username I get the Faithless "Lion Tamer" song in my head. It's not a bad way to be earwigged though.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

It goes like this: exliontamer's grandmother lives in the same TINY south Wales village as my uncle and aunt, and where my parents are currently living. I've spent quite a lot of time in the village over my lifetime, as we would often go there for summer holidays, and as it's such a small community I've actually met exliontamer's grandmother (and grandfather, when he was alive) several times; exliontamer has also possibly met my aunt and uncle, though she's not sure. Does that make any more sense?

Also, I believe "Ex Lion Tamer" is a Wire song...

[(Anonymous)]

It took me two years to work out that I can't forgive him. I deserve better. What a waste of time.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Ack. At least you worked it out eventually, though. These things take time.

[(Anonymous)]

We're supposed to be exchanging contracts today! We might have a new home TODAY!

Or we might not and it might go wrong and we might be stuck in the teeny weeny flat forever and ever and ever.

I think it is obvious who I am.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

It is obvious (unless there are TWO people on my f'list in this situation, and one has been keeping it secret) but I will not blow your cover, and am crossing my fingers for you! Champagne at the ready!

[(Anonymous)]

Most people seem to regard me as sweet and nice. This is all good and I probably am quite nice for the most part. But I am frustrated too because in my head I am much meaner and very sarcastic. Should I let it all out and shock people, or keep with the sweet and nice?

I'm also physically quite little which I think adds to the whole thing. How does one give the appearance of an alluring sarcastic strong woman (= myself in my head) rather than a pretty but gentle/placid girl (= apparently how some people see me, and ewwwww how much do I hate the thought of being seen as placid?).

[(Anonymous)]

I have the opposite problem. I have the reputation of being spiky and bitchy, but I'm quite soft underneath. I think you should just be more honest in general.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that your and class_worrier's relationship is one of my favourite relationships that I know via LJ. I like hearing about you cooking things and you getting to know Glasgow.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! I am glad that we don't come across as sickly and nauseating - at least to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Every time somebody uses the words "squick" or "squee" on LJ, a little bit of me dies.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, you set yourself up.

[(Anonymous)]

so I'm like: Dude! did you know our old friend X had DIED?? And he's like: Dude! Tell me something I didn't tell you two years ago. And I'm like: 0_0

i have such a slight grasp that if the days of my life were jumbled up into a completely different order, I doubt I'd notice

ah! maybe they have been! school tomorrow! or was it hip replacement?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I think that must be the explanation. Someone is jumbling your days! Stop them!

[(Anonymous)]

I've just missed the entire morning at work in favour of a hot date with a vibrator. With my libido how it was, it's not like I was going to be able to concentrate or anything.

Also, I seem to have managed to come into work while forgetting to put a bra on. It's possible that my concentration is still somewhat lacking...

[(Anonymous)]

This is the most arousing thing I've read on LJ for some time. It'll give me something to think about the next time someone hot arrives late for work.

[(Anonymous)]

So here's the thing: I used to be a writer. When I say that I mean that from a very young age, I was writing all the time. I had thousands of stories to tell. I was writing the stories I wanted to read. No major publishing of course, but I identified as a writer, and publishing absolutely would have happened eventually.

Then, about ten years ago it just disappeared. I'm not even joking. It was like overnight. One day I was a writer constantly working, writing stories the way I read books: several at one time, and the next day, I had nothing to say. This is worse than writer's block. Did I mention it's been ten years?

It's so hard because I want it, I've got all the tools at my disposal but no ... plot, characters (don't even get me started about nano), I've got no story to tell.

Which most people who know me would find shocking. Oh write something from your life it's so interesting, you're so brave, blah blah.

Even writing entries in my livejournal is a struggle. I don't know what to do and for ten years it's felt like more than half of me is dead. This isn't even like depression. It's like death.

[ozgirlabroad.livejournal.com]

I was exactly the same, in my family I am still known as "the literary one who writes all the time". LJ is OK, I can write there but writing for work can be a real struggle sometimes and I am a press officer! I can trace this back to the time that I studied journalism at uni - I think before I started studying how to write professionally I was confident because I didn't know about "the rules" of doing so. I had poetry published and was well on my way to writing a book even. But by my third year I had just lost all the passion I had for writing, either journalism or fiction. I think the final nail in the coffin was when I had a bike accident - I used to have a vivid imagination, I used to be able to just lie down and close my eyes and imagine plots like they were movies in my mind's eye. Now, nothing. I cry sometimes with the frustration of it all. I really hope that some day I wake up and find I can write fiction again.

[(Anonymous)]

I find myself increasingly torn by my aim to remain patient and wait for the right person to pursue a long-term relationship with and my desire to get laid.

This has not been helped by the discovery that someone who I used to work with, who I fancy but don't want to have a relationship with, fancies me.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Would getting laid necessarily prevent the eventual long-term relationship? Being patient is important, yes, but can you also have a bit of fun while you're waiting? ;)

[(Anonymous)]

I wish people came with a Ronseal guarantee.

[(Anonymous)]

If they did, what would it say on the tin?