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Freckles & Doubt ([personal profile] freckles_and_doubt) wrote2012-01-12 10:36 am

must be all that mutant bear fighting I did this morning

Hee. There's a meme. Memes are usually lame, but this one made me laugh. Gacked off [livejournal.com profile] matociquala:

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.


The nearest book to me is a Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family, which is on my desk at work so I can lend it to a student. (Vampire thesis, with digressions into random fun reading). This is already auspicious, but the first sentence on p. 45 is too beautifully fortuitous for words: "You're assuming taking a Were as your date would be offensive...?" I am still chortling. Apparently 2012, while allowing something vaguely resembling action, will not in any way mitigate my frequently catastrophic taste in men. However in general personal terms this actually represents an improvement, so I'm not quibbling.

Today, apart from slightly kinky prognostications, is definitely looking up. A random encounter with my physician this morning on the way back from a blood test has allowed him to formally permit me to both stop the Warfarin, and remove the @^$%@#^$% compression socks which are the bane of my existence in this wretched hot weather. (They are really non-stylish with sandals). My effervescent glee at this release is in no way mitigated by (a) the list of prohibitions and warnings regarding future air travel (pshaw, easy, I can do all that), (b) the prospect of an hour and a half in the dentist's chair this afternoon (implant), (c) the cost of said implant and crown, only partially covered by medical aid (total string of numbers represents fabulous amount with more zeroes than God) or (d) the fact that unspecified builderly dudes of noxious ilk have apparently chosen today as the site of their spirited attempt to undermine the building from beneath, using pneumatic drills. Also, student admission and curriculum angst is on the rise, as is traditional for this time of year. I laugh at all that, and wriggle my toes in ecstatic freedom.

The subject line, by the way, is from Goats. As have been the last three, and as they will be for the foreseeable future. Read Goats to avert the apocalypse. (And to foster particularly trippy dreams. Last night I dreamed a giant, boiling stormcloud over central Cape Town, turning the sky black except for a heavy, thunderous green on the horizon. I stood in the garden and watched as the cloud front advanced on Rondebosch with brutal speed, trailing tentacular cloud tendrils amid which giants stalked. It was fairly epic. I woke up vaguely trying to put up magical shields.)

[identity profile] wolverine-nun.livejournal.com 2012-01-12 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, I can hear the drills etcetera. Have some tea.

My relevant(?) line is from Engineering Mechanics - Dynamics by Merriam and Kraige. "Note that the quantity g is taken to be positive throughout this text." Hmm, not sure what that says.

Hmm

[identity profile] first-fallen.livejournal.com 2012-01-12 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
The nearest books to me are a First Aid manual and an accounting software manual. I'm not sure which would be a worse choice for this meme.

Hmm 2

[identity profile] tngr-spacecadet.livejournal.com 2012-01-12 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Would you be?"
I didn't answer that. "Besides keeping my eyes open, what do you want me to do?"
Edited 2012-01-12 13:05 (UTC)

[identity profile] strawberryfrog.livejournal.com 2012-01-12 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Del started at me with no emotion, not even impatience". Well.

PS: Hurrah for no more Warfarin!

Cute meme

[identity profile] xavierxalfonso.livejournal.com 2012-01-13 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
"After a federal emergency was called in 1978, the US government moved to pass into law the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund)."

Well, there's not much middle ground there: it's either really bad or really good.


(The quote is from the closest of the many academic texts on my desk. Could you tell?)

[identity profile] veratiny.livejournal.com 2012-01-13 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, dear...I had a client's book on my desk (entitled Demi-lover), page 45 said:

"He put his fingers up inside me; he made me bleed; I bled all over his sheets!"

As a result in 2012 I resolve to examine all potential partners for hang nails and carry soda and spare sheets in my purse!

[identity profile] virtualkathy.livejournal.com 2012-01-13 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)

"I don't want to stop watching the horses," Mandy admitted.

o.O


And there's nothing nicer than getting rid of compressions socks, I had to wear thigh-high ones during my pregnancies, and I *hated* them. Unfettered glee!