Posts by Lucy Stewart
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So you broke the last one?
Of course not - if we'd broken it we'd have had to get rid of the pieces and we're currently carless. It just so happens that the only pieces of furniture I own are a dresser and an office chair. (Any of you in Chch want a dresser or an office chair?)
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Next time try the on the table stuff while they're still eating breakfast and see if that helps get their wrath on.
Once we actually own a table again, I will take this under consideration.
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Somebody's not trying hard enough.
Actually, I interrogated my ex-Baptist husband quite thoroughly about sexual practices that would be sure to incur someone's wrath. It turned out that most of the on-the-table stuff wasn't going to do it. At least for the fundamentalist Christians he knew.
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The problem is, that I'm almost always doing something that someone disapproves of. There's a lot of uptight people out there, you know?
And sometimes knowing people disapprove is fun. I think the thing that disappointed me most about marriage was the realisation that my sex life would almost certainly not now elicit disapproval from anyone.
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ROTFLing burns more calories though. Just sayin'.
Indeed, as a good ROTFL, LYAO.
I've only met one other person my age with my name (and we don't share a spelling) but these days it seems like every other girl under around five is an Isabel(le) or Isabella.
I have that problem with Lucy - it is reasonably uncommon among my own generation (with the peculiar exception of my year at college) but extremely popular among the under-tens. There's nothing more startling than someone yelling your name disapprovingly in public. Especially when you're doing something that could be disapproved of.
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Claire Bennett...like as in the cheerleader in Heroes?!?!
No, she's Bennet with one T. </pendantry>
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Which reminds me, does your very own computer security expert have work lined up? I may know some people.
And also reminds me: Fulbrighters meeting in groups are often called upon to do Cultural Performances. Consider yourself warned. But fear not, for this last weekend I heard a report from a friend who had recently perpetrated what I consider a genius choice: Oma Rapeti (with actions, and audience participation). Awesome. I am totally doing that next time I'm asked for anything. Which may be never, admittedly.
He does not, and would really appreciate any people you may know.
Oma Rapeti is totally awesome, since my other options for Cultural Performances are
a) half-assedly remember the stick dance we did in Kapa Haka when I was fifteen - I'm not even going near the poi
b) just make up actions for the calendar song and rely on the fact that no-one will understand the words
c) play a nice piece of Baroque recorder music, which while both Cultural and a Performance, is probably not what they're after.
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It could be the social critic's "we", which roughly translates as "everybody except me".
I do love a good passive-aggressive construction.
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I run but that is often the only exercise I get. Otherwise I am sitting down at a computer, at a desk reading or writing. I get up only to get a drink or food, then I sit down to consume it. We hardly walk anywhere any more so many of us have cars, or we take the bus/train. We have labour saving devices galore and pre prepared meals mean even cooking is a matter of pressing a button then sitting down until a beep tells you it is ready.
What's this we, kemosabe?
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@Lucy I would watch out for the wifi in American hotels though. Most of it is fine, but the one I was in in Chattanooga last weekend used a service that loaded some kind of toolbar onto my browser that acted a lot like adware. Trying to deal with it after an 11 hour drive home was annoying, to say the least.
Duly noted, although I will have my very own computer security expert travelling with me, so it will be a very brave piece of adware that decides to take us on.