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[freckles_and_doubt]

Lordy. Epic grump this morning: yesterday's endless stream of obliviously disorganised students radiating annoyed entitlement had generated a fizzing, homicidal rage which seems to have carried through the night. I woke up at 5am with a pained yelp as my calves cramped, and drove up to campus swearing a blue streak at almost anything foolish enough to cross my path. (Traffic! pedestrians! infelicitous billboards! sudden flurries of leaves!)

Then Making Light did an open poetry challenge thread, including an array of vintage and lovely puns as well as well-scanned, witty verse from the site's scarily literate commenters, and the git of figgling, no, wait, fit of giggling has cured me, even if only temporarily until the first student idiot tries something.

I have to say, Orson Scott Card's latest homophobic rant hasn't helped the grump any. I've always been a bit ambivalent about his writing, but this kind of thing is giving me a strong disinclination ever to read him again.

Last night I dreamed I was trying to do a gym routine, in an unfamiliar and slightly down-at-heel gym where the attendants were slowly taking away the machines and locking them up in a back room, inexorably reducing my options and eventually bringing the routine to a grinding halt. As they did this a a horde of small children waving balloons poured into the room from the other end. Extremely frustrating. I think my subconscious is guilt-tripping me about my conspicuous lack of gym activity for the last two months. I say to my subconscious, deal! I'll go back when I've overcome the latest dose of post-glandular languidity. Sigh.

Comments

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's not because Virgin Active Claremont is moving buildings. Or is that not your gym?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Nope, my gym is Sports Science. Virgin Active's removals plan leaves me profoundly unmoved.

Or something.

Must collect DrWho from you! have been too busy! aargh!

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Also Doctor Horrible Sing-Along Blog..

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

you have it? happy dance! shall arrange to come and see you, ooh, maybe Friday evening? Saturday?

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Friday is better than Saturday.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Cool, what time are you home? I'm free until 7pm on Friday.

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Not sure. I want to do stuff around house but am on standby and Linda wants to go out. I can leave disk with the char if you can come by before 16:00. Otherwise from 6:30 till 7:30?? Arrange after I have spoken to my better half.

Iamb a Biochemist

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Tempted was I to comment in verse, but fear that that would be much worse. Besides which, my training was in Biological Sciences, I appreciate poetry as a leisure activity.

Light has been made,
Iamb totally dazzled!

Thanks for the link.

[starmadeshadow.livejournal.com]

Thank heavens for the Making Light link; but OSC's rant still leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth.

I suggest you recite 'Numpty, numpty, numpty' under your breath when dealing with students; it really does help =)

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, you don't think it might be another work dream?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Oh, it very certainly could. But I'm trying not to be all depressive about work. Anger is at least invigorating.

[(Anonymous)]

sorry, that was me.
everymoment

Lolpoems

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Ah, limericks. They're good for any occasion. If I were Ruler of the World, I would make an International Limerick Day, where you had to speak in limericks or face a firing squad.

I think OSC has a valid argument but it stems from an invalid standpoint. I agree that courts shouldn't be able to redefine something that has an intrinsic value, but I don't agree that "marriage" is defined by some old book written by dead guys. I lold at his comparison to redefining colours, I forget the name for that "argument style". Hee heee.