killing me softly
Mar. 14th, 2005 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constanceI moved bedrooms today, downstairs to upstairs, put most of my things back in storage, ran up and down stairs all day with the rest. And then hours of paperwork and another suitcase packed for a seven-hour drive tomorrow, and after my leisurely lie-in of yesterday and a day of constant activity today, I should get some sleep but I find I can't. So here I am instead.
Hi.
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I spent my New Year's Eve with friends, and it was the most exhausting New Years Eve of all time, but before I tell you about it, I want to start by asking you if you knew that Trivial Pursuit and Barnes and Noble have joined forces? They have, and the result, I can tell you, is not pretty. Four of us, on December 31st, sitting around my kitchen table eating slowly-congealing white pizza, three of us experienced and if I may say so knowledgable book people, and it took us hours, hours, hours. Sometimes I have dreams that I'm still playing. And when it was over (I don't remember who won, if anyone won, or if we just finally gave up, but maybe it was T.), I think all four of us had temporarily lost the will to live. The way, say, a champion skater would feel after sprawling flat on her face in the middle of a figure eight--as though a lifetime's preparation just would never be enough to save you from the simplest of fuckups.
That said, it was fun too. I give you the unfathomable mystery of the bookseller's heart.
And even though I had fun, I was a little relieved to see this eerily familiar bookslut article, on account of misery and company and all. This sounds just about exactly like our New Year's Eve celebration (except that apparently they never blanked out on the simplest answers after their brains shut down in, like, the fourth hour), and reading that article makes me want to play again; I feel the scars have healed enough by now.
We should definitely play. You bring the wine and I'll set up the board.
Hi.
:::
I spent my New Year's Eve with friends, and it was the most exhausting New Years Eve of all time, but before I tell you about it, I want to start by asking you if you knew that Trivial Pursuit and Barnes and Noble have joined forces? They have, and the result, I can tell you, is not pretty. Four of us, on December 31st, sitting around my kitchen table eating slowly-congealing white pizza, three of us experienced and if I may say so knowledgable book people, and it took us hours, hours, hours. Sometimes I have dreams that I'm still playing. And when it was over (I don't remember who won, if anyone won, or if we just finally gave up, but maybe it was T.), I think all four of us had temporarily lost the will to live. The way, say, a champion skater would feel after sprawling flat on her face in the middle of a figure eight--as though a lifetime's preparation just would never be enough to save you from the simplest of fuckups.
That said, it was fun too. I give you the unfathomable mystery of the bookseller's heart.
And even though I had fun, I was a little relieved to see this eerily familiar bookslut article, on account of misery and company and all. This sounds just about exactly like our New Year's Eve celebration (except that apparently they never blanked out on the simplest answers after their brains shut down in, like, the fourth hour), and reading that article makes me want to play again; I feel the scars have healed enough by now.
We should definitely play. You bring the wine and I'll set up the board.
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Date: 2005-03-15 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-15 02:32 am (UTC)When I do--cage fight!
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Date: 2005-03-16 04:44 pm (UTC)