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[wook77]

Haven't really updated in a week so here goes, personal life drivel and a few rants -


When you visit Arizona and the locals tell you to drink loads of water, they really mean, drink loads of water. I don't give a flying fuck that you're from Manitoba and think you know more about the desert because you visited once four years ago and didn't have a problem. Seriously.

Backstory - I went to an airshow this weekend at Davis-Monthan AFB and it was awesome. The things these guys could do with their planes were just amazingly awesome. However, the malicious bitch in me says that the most entertaining bit was when above asshole from Manitoba took me to task for telling him he looked a mite red and pale and that he might, perhaps, want to drink some more water or get heatstroke. Ok, so that wasn't entertaining, that was the frustrating bit. What was entertaining was when he passed out cold and the ambulance had to take him away not even an hour later.

I've had heatstroke. It's not pretty. Actually - I got heatstroke from waiting outside the movie theater in a really huge long line to purchase Phantom Menace tickets. Fun times for all. I tried and he didn't listen. I got to say I told you so, though, so I guess all's well that ends with an asshole in an ambulance.


Dogsitting actually went fairly well. Except for the big ole shit that one of the dogs took in the shower. And the bite to my ankle. And them coming home early when I hadn't quite finished cleaning/packing. They came home a day early and I had about 45 minutes warning that they were on their way. Their dogs had been nesting in my suitcase and, thus, had strewn my clothes all across the bedroom. Loads of fun trying to find everything.


Have almost completely finished my sns assignment. Have about 500 words of my springtimegen assignment done. Have about 600 words of my serpentinelion claim done. All three have sorta odd plots so I'm not sure if I like any of them but it's a bit late to be changing crap around. I will be sending these things out to beta hopefully by this weekend. *crosses fingers*

I had another rant about people acting all ZOMGsurprised about me doing shit that they had no clue about even though I've posted about it four times in my journal or about people acted like something's new when I posted about it a week before but it's not even worth it. Read, don't read, it's your choice.

So, a different rant - I've been listening to Air America Radio lately and omg, so annoyed at their commercials. Just because I'm a liberal does NOT mean that I am an optimist. In point of fact, most of the liberals I know are BITTER PESSIMISTS that have had their ideals and compassion raped by this administration. So, why the fuck do most of the advertisers have the sunshine and daisies marketing? One ad from this morning was "the pessimist child was given loads of toys and bitched about it while the optimist child was given a barrel of horseshit and thought there was a pony in there somewher and blahblahblah since you're an optimist buy this product". I wanted to reach through the radio and slug that fucker. The advertising is so patently condescending that I kept turning it off hoping that if I went back, it wouldn't be there but it was almost every sodding commercial. They even had an "optimist" ad for metal sheds. SHEDS!!! What does optimism have to do with sheds?!

For those of you that listen to Air America - what's your favorite program? I've been listening to Sam Seder and he's alright but I like how pissed off Randi Rhodes gets. There was a replay on yesterday about the absymal treatment of troops and fucking with medical records to send injured soldiers back to Iraq that was really awesome. She doesn't seem to be so frothing at the mouth, lately. Did I just luck into one that wasn't so omg!rage?

Is Janeane Garofalo still on?

Comments

[dapperderp.livejournal.com]

YES! Re: The water thing. I've also had it (hiking on south mountain once in phoenix x_x) and it sucks like a sucking thing.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

It really does. Stupid me didn't go to the hospital, either, so I toughed it out at home and it was absolutely awful. Never again.

[neekbreek.livejournal.com]

Hahaha oh my god. People are so dumb. I would have been amused too.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

They are. I don't get it. Listen to the locals, dude. We just might know what the heck we're talking about.

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

Ug, I went to Vegas once (Grand Canyon and the area, too) and I about died. I'm used to Florida mucky moisture air and in the West it's this water-less air and I had about four bottles of water (and lotion! damn you dry hands) on me at all times. Idiots that think they can survive without water suck.

And I hate that stupid pony toy thing people use. I want to smack them.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I love the desert, it's absolutely awesomeness and love.

Pony toy? huh?

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

The whole optimistic child, pessimistic child thing.

[wendy.livejournal.com]

I hate when people don't read what I post too. And then I'm all "BUT I POSTED THAT." Yet, I'm the very worst at retaining LJ information I've read. So.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I'm good at retaining the information and I try to comment but sometimes I fail. It's more that it keeps happening lately.

I think it's also that I'm feeling disconnected. With not being able to chat all the time, I'm quickly learning who's willing to go the extra mile to communicate with me and who isn't.

[wendy.livejournal.com]

Stalking you by email totally counts, right? *grins*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I had another rant about people acting all ZOMGsurprised about me doing shit that they had no clue about even though I've posted about it four times in my journal or about people acted like something's new when I posted about it a week before.

You know, I have to say I've never assumed anyone reads every single thing I post. If I post about something a second time, I'll often link back to the first post, in case people wonder why the hell I'm talking about something seemingly out of the blue. LJ has such a short attention span, and something you post about four days ago might as well have been four months ago, because so much has happened in the meantime. And if you're like me and have waaay too many people on your flist, it starts to get hard to remember if it was Wook or Tara who said that.

Or perhaps I am just one of those many idiots. ;-)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I don't assume the majority of my flist reads me. There are about 10 or so people that I do make the assumption that they are reading and that part is really directed more towards them.

You're definitely not one of "those many idiots"... I figure your flist is, well, huge, so not every post is goign to get read. You comment when it counts/matters the most and that always makes me feel loved :).

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Your comment above about waiting in line for TPM tickets totally took me back to the day I did that. I'm not sure if you lived in Tucson then, but I had a moment of OMG what if we totally walked past each other a hundred times and never knew it?? :-P

Sometimes I feel stalkerish when I make Tucson comments, heh.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Did you go to the Century Park at Grant and I-10? That's where I did my waiting. I was stuck in the back lefthand corner of the building (if you're looking at the front). There were some wicked cool people waiting around me!

Keep making the Tucson comments! Maybe we'll even be able to go out for burritos or something!

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[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

OMG, yes!! I lived near Grant and Silverbell, so that was the closest theatre to my house! I went with a bunch of friends from grad school, and we waited in line the day the tickets went on sale and then went to a show that was noonish on the first day. The film broke about halfway through and we had to wait about 15 minutes for it to be fixed. They gave us all free tickets to come back and see it again, so we went back the next day.

Wow, we were both in that line! How cool!

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[wook77.livejournal.com]

Not only that but... I went to a show at like 12:15 and the film broke, no joke.

OMG, we were probably in the same theater. We ended up going to another show that night. I went like 5 times that first day.

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[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Dude, seriously??? *boggles*

We saw TPM at the same time, in the same theater?! Small world!! INSANE.

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Holy shit!

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

I have nothing interesting to say.

Hi. ♥

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I loved your story from earlier, btw. I had to get off of "sneakeh" at work or else I would've commented on it right away!

*loves*

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

*loves back, like DAYS late*

♥!!!!!

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

all's well that ends with an asshole in an ambulance

Oh, you are evil and amusing.

As for your rant which you didn't put in but sorta just summarized... I know I do that to you all the time... you tell me stuff on chat and I'm like "oh really?" and later I see you had posted about it before. I don't think you should take that as anything but a sign of not having time to fully read the flist, crap memory, and/or some combination of the two (whether it's me or anyone else). I mean, I know it can feel personal, but I'd guess in most cases it's not. What's that saying? "Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" or something like that. Not that stupidity is the right word at all.

I've actually never listened to Air America. Those commercials do sound annoying. I think if you are optimistic, then your shed will, um, hold more stuff. And be shinier and never rust. Yeah.

Good luck with the writing. Um. Writing! That's what I'm supposed to be doing now.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I am evil! I'm glad I'm amusing in my evilness.

I'm trying to but it's hard not to take it personally when it's from a coregroup. Like, I know that you don't have much time for flist skimmage, which is why I email you the important bibs and bobs. But we've also had this convo *grins* so you know how I feel about it.

The commercials are the pits. Seriously, they're enough to make me want to never listen again. I've been switching between Air America and "The 90's on 9" on XM.

How's the writing? And I'm totally NOT on sneakeh at work, right now. Nope, nuh-uh.

[ficlette.livejournal.com]

Do they really think a horse would just hang out in a barrel of its own shit?


What assholes. (That also implies to the dogs from hell and people that don't listen to the locals in Arizona.)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess they do and omg, totally on sneakeh but I'll ping you when I get home.

[akakat.livejournal.com]

Seriously, no one ever believes it when you tell them they need water. (People here just get altitude sickness, which rarely results in ambulance trips, but still).

I think the Air America commercials are even worse than some of the commercial music stations *sigh*. At least NPR is commercial free still.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just don't get it. If someone that's been there done that and is first aid/cpr/responder certified tells you that you need to be drinking more water, you'd think you (general you) would listen. But no, I'm an idiot.

NPR still ahs those "sponsored by blahblahblahblahblahblahgoesonforeverandaday" comments in between though. Some of them are ALMOST as bad as the air america ones.

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

eep - I totally did that to you the other day, didn't I?

*tries to appease you with cookies*


And, it always amazes me that people don't listen to advice like that - it seems like they become defensive and more stubborn, just because someone else deigned to point something out.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Now I feel like what I was ranting about, you did?

I have no idea why he was all dumb about it but it was fairly annoying. I hope he's ok but it was still nice poetic justice to have him pass out. I'll admit to being quite happy on that one.

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

Right, context - my SO has to remind me all the time to provide context for what I say

Anyway, I've been filtering out comms lately, and have only been keeping up with personal journals. So, when you posted a link to your latest HD fic, I completely missed it until then, and usually when that happens, I say something like "oh, I can't believe I totally missed this!". It's not meant as an insult or anything, just me admitting my lack of paying attention.

So, when you posted yesterday, I was all like "oh, yeah, I hate when that happens, I wonder if the person in question knows what they did..."

And then it dawned on me that I totally did that to you!!!!!

Of course, what was missing was me making a witty remark about how I'm touched you consider me part of your inner circle. And that your rant was the closest I've ever come to being ranted about on lj, even though I'm sure you weren't actually talking about me. But since I'm that starved for attention right now, you can just pretend, I can just go off basking in your rantiness ;)


(Unless it really actually was about me, in which case - cookie?)