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i think sara fell into the wall

NOPE

But thanks for your concern.

I think I want to waste all my Sunday afternoons ice skating from now on.

I probably can't ice skate ;__;

i am, to the best of my knowledge, unable to ice skate

i was timid on ice.

i have always wanted to wear ice skates at a roller rink

and visa-versa

(my front yard growing up was a frequently-frozen pond)

John, you live in Minnesota; that is ridiculous. (You were a deprived child!)

Also, there's no doubt in my mind that both of you could easily learn. Alex, who is my super-cautious kid, learned; so can you.

There are plenty of places to ice skate in the Cities, John. Go try it.

remy, you could try it!

estela - it just takes practice...

Personally, I am always disppointed to realize how difficult figure skating must be. If I can skate, why CAN'T I learn to do jumps and turns? (answer: much more likely to break bones doing the latter)

i saw a mother once spend an hour patiently coaxing her scared child onto the ice, reassuring her that it was okay, that there was nothing to be afraid of, then the mother suddenly fell and split her face open.

Well, no wonder you're timid! Maybe I'm lucky; even when I've fallen, I haven't gotten hurt.

Both kids started out with those weird things that look like the walkers that old people use. By the end of it, Alex was skating independently; J. kept going back to it.

By contrast, my downhill skiing experience was fun, but the final time I went, I nearly hit a fence. Feeling out of control going down a hill and then almost hitting a fence was not fun. I have not tried that again, and that was probably 20 years ago.

my eight-year-old sister actually flew through a safety fence and ended up in a tree, where a ski instructor had to rescue her with a pair of ladders

I have never skiied.

remy... wow. I'm not regretting my Not Skiing decision here!

W4LTER, you obviously need to go try some dangerous winter sports. I recommend immediately visiting Minnesota for these purposes.

i've only skiied once and i was a duffer.

also water-skiing: once, timid, duffer.

I have not water-skiied either! I suck. I have ice skated once or twice, when I was in school. I was baddd.

i'm still laughing about 'sorry mate, your forks are fucked'.

Okay, water-skiing might be fun, but I could never manage to get UP onto the skis. Maybe I was just worried that I would lose my swim suit top, though.

W4lter, report immediately to Minnesota for remedial ice skating lessons. You and Alex can figure it out together.

lol it would be totally awesome if the Giants offense decided they had something they'd like to contribute to the Superbowl. >.<

Aww, I wish I was watching that ;_;.

I wish I was watching PUPPY BOWL.

I am going to watch Bruce Almighty. I'm kind of not that excited about it.

WATCH PUPPY BOWL.

on the internets, I just found this photo with this caption o_O

http://www.mybunnies.com/images/cats/kitties_bathroom1_022005.jpg

This is all the kitties, including my daughters, joining me in the bathroom. My husband thinks its funny to stick them all in the bathroom one at a time when I am in there. Of course, I love to have them in there.

O_o
http://www.mybunnies.com/images/cats/Picture%20162.jpg
Roo resting. She only has 3 legs. The 4th leg, is just a little deformed stump, but you can't tell her she's disabled!

Poor Roo :(

pegaroo

i'm one of the least coordinated people i know. i have managed to go 28 years without ever having skied, water-skied, ice-skated or any other such sports. i did try rollerskating as a kid and fell really goddamn hard on my ass and hurt my tail bone pretty bad.

i'm officially 1/3 of the way through a paper that is due tomorrow. anxiety is setting in.

what's it on?

it's a media studies paper, comprised of three separate questions. the first one was just a close reading of an article about the effects of internet on sociability patterns. the next part requires me to choose an example from popular media and write about how ideology and power relations operate within it.

i'm thinking a movie would be the easiest kind of media example to use, but i can't pick one.

Roo (As in Kanga and Roo. Little Roo is grey and she hops. This is exactly how this kitty looks and gets around)

http://www.mybunnies.com/images/cats/roo%20090304.JPG

k, finished now.

she is really pretty!

the pats are losing lolololololololololol

THE PATS LOST LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

^^^ you, me, and I'm guessing both our SO's are the happiest people in Massachusetts right now.

people i expect to see @ lunch today:

ned, jbr, adamrl, nickn, max r, jeff treppel, elvis telecom, felicity, roger mexico

nice work.

i just fapped with jaq, lingbert, reverend, the higgs, timi yuro and a buncha non-ilxors who thankfully didn't ask 'so how do you all know each other?'

Aw, sounds fun! Good job, everyone. (including the New York Giants, I guess!)

Kitty pictures are all A+++++ btw.

so i decided to use shortbus as my media example... do you think i'll get in trouble for talking about orgasms and orgies in my paper?

I guess it depends on your prof, but I wouldn't think so. I spent my first year of college at an all-women's Catholic college, and my English prof had us study Lysistrata. It was pretty amusing to be at this super-conservative school, writing about the references to oral sex in the text.

Also, it's a media class, right? That sounds like the kind of class where the prof would not be offended easily.

I could be wrong, of course. I shouldn't stereotype media studies profs as liberal types.

I'm going to sleeeeeeep now bump

good night, all

ok now i'm 2/3 of the way through above mentioned essay. it's now midnight and i need to leave the house about 12:45pm tomorrow. i'm pretty sure i can get this done in 12 hours, but this last part is the hardest: discuss why fans should be considered an active media audience. neat fun. BUMPBUMPBUMP.

have written nothing since my last bump :(

poor ruby, i know that feeling very well, but you will get it done because you have to, futile broken thread title bump

the thread title is a metaphor for my broken spirit *woeful sighhhhh*