This Is The Thread Where I Say.......Part Seven!

HA! I had to vent a little with kitten pix because the mods thread was making me grumpy. And I don't WANT to be grumpy! I'm moving to Chicago and I'm all happy and shit.

Hey, I wanna go to that New Years show...

I don't wanna get my hopes up, I might not get the tickets. This would be my first time in Chicago also.

Sarah, dude! You and Nick are gonna be in Chicago by then huh? You guys should find tickets and go too! That would be sweet.

Sorry, I was premature, then, NL, I mean "GOOD LUCK with those concert tickets!" (In my optimist mind, you'd already got them.)

Avoiding certain threads has helped me be totally confused by mentions of tensions on ilx. Oooh "mentions of tensions" that's going in the rhyme file!

ha ha yeah I'm pretty much considering them gotten, glass is half-full etc.

I just wanna say...

I love reading iLX as most of you are incredibly intelligent and there are some great debates that go on around here. And as for the humour, well you guys are just too much. I often get strange looks from my colleagues as I burst into fits of laughter at my monitor.

I kiss you ILX, and I hope that those who are stressed can get rid of it all by partying hard offline at Christmas. Those who aren't, well party hard anyway.

I'm gonna be sat here in work for most of Christmas so I will be logging into ILX more often than usual, so please continue to keep me entertained with the usual banter. (but less arguements please)

(pretty please?)

Hi, Ste. I've just noticed some of your posts today. How long have you been on ILX?

Hi Ste, good to have you on board. There used to be a guy in an Oxford band called Ste. Are you him?

Ste is just short for Steve, I think its rarely used like this but no I'm not the Ste from the band.

I've been here for about a year and a half now, I would guess.

My old username was Fuzzy but I grew to disklike it, but I never posted much anyhoo.

Ah, yes. I remember Fuzzy.

Just shoot me if I talk to anyone else on this board again, ever. I'm getting really sick of apologising to people. :-(

That Moderator thread, its totally ILX 'inverted' or something.

My alarm didn't go off this morning, so I woke up around 8:15 (I'm supposed to be here at 8:30) and shot out of bed, took the quickest shower known to woman and zoomed into my clothes and out the door.

I haven't done laundry, so I'm sort of dressed up and everyone is asking me where I'm going. I'm getting a little embarrassed saying it's just because I'm a lazy slob, so I'm trying to think of something fabulous to tell them, but it's not really working.

"I'm um.. going to a premiere tonight, yeah... no wait, Tom Hanks' Christmas bash... yeah! Um, no, a get together at the Playboy Mansion, yeah.... OKAY NO, I JUST HAVEN'T DONE LAUNDRY YOU VULTURES! GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME TO MY SHAME!"

COFFEE? NO - WHY DO YOU ASK?

CANDY IS DANDY

the sun cries from the heat
i love feelin beat
i kiss the lipstick on your teeth

Luna do you have two different colored shoes on today?

Luna has on three different colored shoes, the poor dear.

Thankfully no, my shoes match (I double checked - I'm an asshole), but my underwear don't match. THE SHAME.

Since when is your underwear supposed to match your shoes? Eep.

The rules of fashion are simple and finite.

held

HA HA I'm back in!

the problem is that I can't see the cursor. but I can still write. Creepy.

CREEPY!

Ok it's not really, I'm just really bored.

Ha ha.

Do you ever post things and no one replies to them so you feel like you're talking to yourself?

My shoulders are all tense from ILX today and yet I'm still here. What is my problem? No wait, don't tell me. I can hardly take asides or one-offs/ I could definitely not handle someone telling me my problem directly.

Sarah, you're wonderful.

It's like I'm a ghost! Only everyone else can see me. So I'm a ghost unto myself.

Which is no fun really - what good is being a ghost if you can't scare the crap out of people? Fuck that benevolent "I'm a good ghost, let me show you where your grandfather buried the family fortune" crap. If I were a ghost and I couldn't make someone crap their pants, I'd give it up completely.

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Thanks, Luna.

And guess what, everyone? I like getting compliments and I don't think anyone here is fake nice to me. And guess what else? I AM CRAZY! I AM CRAZY from reading this crap today. I am full of happiness in my personal life and Christmas joy and all sorts of fluff and I want to come on here and be happy with other people.

(damn it)

Sarah, I've always been fake nice to you. Ever since Grade Seven, when you told me that you'd kiss me behind the band portable after school, and then when I got there, your brother gave me a wedgie in front of all the Grade Eights, thus making me an allowable target for all of their hijinks for the remainder of the term. I've never forgiven you for that. I swore on that day that I would get revenge by being as fake nice as possible to you for the next 15 years, and then when your guard is completely down...uh, I don't know.
That never really happened anyway.

I like you. You let me send you a fax once.

Ha Ha. Yeah, I found in this huge stack of paperwork the other day when I was trying to reorganize the files. I picked it up and was thinking, 'WTF?!' and then I remembered it was from you and it made me smile again.

And then I threw it away. (It will live on in my memory!)

I don;'t get the fake nice thing, either... Why waste the time? If you don't like me, don't like me; if you do, well, so much the better.

Sorry for sleepy folx. I too had much coffee today. Was an hour late to school but it was okay b/c the first testing period today was my off period. Which is also why I took the liberty of staying up so late.

But between the huge frappicino I had and my meds I'm all a-tremble.

Sorry, Sam. Maybe the criminals will learn something from the school papers or perhaps decide to go into teaching.

my friend across the hall suggested the criminals were doing me a favor and contributing to my overall good mental health by taking the students' work off my hands. ;)

I once had a kiddo tell me she lost her paper after someone broke into her mom's car. Now I buy such excuses.

Came in this morning and reminded the vice-principal of my friend at Fox news who'd love to do a story about the disrepair here. (cieling tiles falling out, broken windows going weeks without being fixed.) He promised to at least get the jagged pieces removed and told me I could hold class in the library if we got too cold.

Six hours later and the glass is still there. *sigh*

Oh and have good holidays to everyone who won't be around for while. (see even being the grinch i am, I can wish others well. must be the coffee ;) )

No one is in my office but me, I am listening to Otis Redding sing "The Happy Song" really loudly, I have no shoes on, and I have a very small bottle of rum in my desk.

Oh no I couldn't get this wifi thing to work because they put a password on it sometiime this morning but I tricked it into letting me in so here I am yams!

I don't want to read teh moderator thread but I probably will.

"yams"?

That's an affectionate nickname for all y'all.

After sifting through the rubble of a few threads, all I can say is, ILXors be some major drama queens.

Hehe :) Whatever people say about this thread, seems we're the only ones having a nice time at the moment

(like a red rag to a Jess?)

well this is the only thread I've read so far today. which ones should I avoid?

It sounds like all of them. I was posting on the christmas kitten thread, that seems perfectly supertwee and okay. I haven't looked at much else given what people are saying about the hostility/drama.

Though I'm morbidly curious. Somehow you always want to know what's going on and who hates who and who's having a tantrum. But doing the reading to find out is depressing.

I've gotten in the habit of telling my dad I love him. He may never respond to that and may think I'm an oversensitive idiot (hm, not entirely wrong there). But so the fuck what. It really did scare the shit out of me when, just for a few minutes, I thought something had gone wrong with his surgery (hospital misinformation).

I've been listening to an Elizabeth George book on tape. It's pretty good, I like what I've read of her mysteries. I have another suspense/mystery thing (an airport-novel type book) but the writing or the expression or something just seems too crude to me.

My mom had picked up a novel for me a few weeks ago that turned out being a really really bad romance novel, and it was just hilarious. The sex scenes were just priceless--they were trying to be all sexy but not too detailed. Implied sex in books is fine. Explicit sex is fine too (quite). But writing that attempts to be in between can be really comical sometimes. Bad writing can be really comical anyway, I suppose, especially when it's describing sex. I don't write all that well myself but I am nonetheless a snob.

I need to come up with library ideas. If anyone has suggestions for authors who write compelling stuff that is kind to those with a limited attention span but which is decently written so as not to inspire disgust... email me (hotmail username j_bdules) or whatever. Taste is a variable thing of course, but suggestions help.

I frequently have a hard time finding books I like anymore. I am a concentration-limited grump.

Anyway, hi all! NA, "yams" sounds cool.

Shit that was long, sorry. I'm either kinda quiet or verbose somteimes.

Have you read P.G. Wodehouse? That's what I often read when I want something easy to read and terrific.

I am getting a bit melancholy looking at the threads that are great and readible -- like the Finnish proverb thread. Or that Gareth revived my airport postcard thread because he wanted to send me one. And a few others. And it's frustrating because, you know, the drama threads are poisoning so many other threads, or drowning so many out, and I'm starting to feel all hippie and whatever thinking, you know, is this really what we want to put all our effort into? Snapping at each other? But at the same time, of course, this is what happens, this is all part of group dynamics. So, oh well.

Yeah, I'm feelin' the love too, Chris!

Shall I do a cartwheel? / *whee!* /0\ *whee!* /

(Hope you didnae see me knickers then)

fuckit why does that never work! bleddy html

Only a day and a half of work to go this year! WHOOT!