Male and Female Imponderables--The way of the wise

POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 13:04
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NVGHOSTRIDER

Monday, August 7, 2006 8:51 PM

Gotta go.

Be back tomorrow.

'Night 'coats.

SPACEANJL

Monday, August 7, 2006 9:03 PM

Ooh, tales from the Underground.

So...crowded carriage. Small voice 'excuse me'. No-one moves. 'Excuse Me' a little louder. Someone shifts into the way, with elbows. 'excuse me, please, I really need to get out'. No result. Then, 'I HAVE SOME VERY BIG BOOTS AND IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF THE BLOODY WAY I AM GOING TO START KICKING' result - people move.

And then there was the day two big blokes decided to mug me. I had had a very bad day. It was not happening. Really. I told them so. At volume and with language unfit for a young lady. I've never seen muggers cower before. Weird.

Or the falling over on the Blackfriars escalator (caught my shoe on the way to work in the city)and being trodden on by three people rather than helped up.

Ah, London. Bloody great cesspool. Sometimes I miss it.

ODDSBODSKINS

Monday, August 7, 2006 9:05 PM

well it's true, i imagine there's alot more fun to be had on the underground, but still, the effect of just a grin, can be quite something (okay so i happen to have a prticularily unsettling grin, but even so)

quite like those tricks though, may have to give some of them a go.

another good one is in the street, just stop and stare at the corner of a roof, when someone stops to ask what you're looking at, shush them, maybe make some veiled comment about scaring it away, wait until there's a fair crowd, then meander off, come back in half an hours time and see if they're still there

the londoners personal space strike me as odd though, although it's probably just a natural reaction to being in such close proximity, physical contact is a neccessary part of the day, jam-packed in public transport, sardine's in a tin and all that, you can't help bumping off've people, so it winds up in things like eye-contact, intereacting with people you've never met, and this extreme unwritten code of when you can and can't touch another person, always strikes me as something a wee bit odd and a wee bit interesting to play about with.

but i can get why it might be a welcome relief when contrasted with other things, not so much a problem i find, but, i can make sense of that.

anyways, another subject, moving back in with the parents, have always known it was a possiblity, i tend to move between rented flat's with varieties of flatmates, sooner or later i'm not gonna have a flat and a set of people to hand, but, not sure ho i'd cope with it, much as i love my parents and all, i don't think anyone involved would cope well with that. s'odd, how much differance moving out makes, but, it makes a hell of a lot.

MSG

Monday, August 7, 2006 9:44 PM

Hey all...thanks for keeping it nice and slow today as I was trapped in the training from HELL!!! See I switched to a new district which means I had to go to a 7 hour training which is geared primarily for the newly graduated( and is consequently full of ideas and info I have either been using for years or wouldn't use on a bet), but haven't taught yet. Those who are just new to the district have to go because they cover insurance and such... Thought I would die quietly of boredom. If they had wi-fi I would have brought the laptop and had y'all, but no they don't have it up yet....I think I actually felt my brain dissolve
Fell into my job...funny you should mention it, but I never wanted to be a teacher. I got my degree( well one of them) in criminal pyschology and meant to go to the FBI... but then my mom had this idea for me to make money just after I got married. I could teach under a conditional certificate and get a degree in special ed and I'd get paid better than I was making and it might be valuable experience ( my mom is sneaky this way as she did NOT want me to be in the FBI) So I sign up and low and behold...I love this job and wouldn't trade it for a million dollars a minute!!!

Underwear...ok I love those boxer/briefs they are the same length as boxers, but much more snug fitting. Wish I could talk the husband into them, but he likes plain old boxers, which are cute too:)

If you are going to go regimental with kilts...I beg of you make sure you have a heavy sporrin( not sure of spelling here)and there is no serious wind!

Nathan ( and Mal) are lovely guys, just not really my type...Jayne is really really really my type!

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

ODDSBODSKINS

Monday, August 7, 2006 9:50 PM

heavy sporran and a proper kilt pin, and if you're feeling really paranoid and on your way to a burns supper, you can always add the full traditional dirk to keep a bit more weight on holding it down ^^

tend to wear mine with a leather jacket, which has the advantage of being just about long enough to get a little more weight on the upper section, isn't much, but it helps in high winds.

TRISTAN

Monday, August 7, 2006 9:59 PM

Fear not, MSG, I wear the "Irish" kilt...it's a bit longer and has a lot more cloth in it...the thinnest one I have is made up of 5 yards of material...just around the waist. Quite heavy enough to stay down.

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MSG

Monday, August 7, 2006 10:16 PM

ok feel much better:)

May I say best part of the ttraining today was when they repeatedly stated...If you have tatoos or piercings, do not tell your students keep it to yourself!

I'm bailing for the gym, but I will be back in about an hour:)

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

MSG

Monday, August 7, 2006 10:20 PM

Ok I lied I'm just going to do yoga later:)

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

RUGBUG

Monday, August 7, 2006 10:24 PM

I'll bail for the gym for ya, then. Well actuall 2 hours of torture, otherwise known as PT and then work out. See ya all tomorrow.

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"My feelings are changeable but intense" Anya (season 7 Buffy)

SERYN

Monday, August 7, 2006 11:08 PM

that kind of behaviour isn't exclusive to london though - my sister fell over when she was 8 months pregnant, people completely ignored her, stepped around and one guy stepped over her legs. then when she managed to right herself and feel stable again, she was examining the cut on her knee at the same time as trying to round up the shopping that had gone everywhere, and some b*****d guy actually tutted at her being in his way.

she told me and i was ready to go track him down and remove his reason for living. Sadly, theough birkenhead is a backwards culturless little s**thole, its not that small.

but i really was livid when i found that out.

As for living at my parents home - i'm currently at my mothers house, having moved out at seveteen and never intended to come back, i go out of uni and couldn't afford to remain in london. I didn't particularly enjoy living with house mates, but that was only because i never had housmates that were either comfortably distant (i.e. there was no pressure to pretend we were friends) or was actually friends with.
I think i'd fare much better if i could get to know people than move in with them if we were compatable. I'm desperate to move out - i just want enough space to separate my work from my sleeping area - i.e, have two rooms, a bedroom and a work room, then i don't mind sharing other things, I actually found when i was living alone that both time i felt isolated, and tended to loose whole days at a time to drifting around.
The most perfect for me arrangement i've ever had was actually halls - i had my own space, and could be alone when i needed to, facilities were basic, but enough, and people didn't impose on you (i.e, leave all their washing up for you) (well, one girl did, but when we started throwing anything left for longer than two days out she got the hint) but you could garuntee when you went to the kitchen for breakfast there'd be some lively conversation, and similarly, at any time of day or night, if you wanted company there were always other people around, and the security was good - never felt safe in one of my flats as the fire escap led directly to my bedroom, and i always had visions of waking up to an intruder.

funnily enough that happened to me while i was in college, but it didn't shake me, as as soon as i got out of my room there were two guys already chasing him down - in my flat i was totally on my own.

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