Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Hilary - given the Greeks didnt wear togas...cloaks kilts tunics loincloths nothing - all go but togas were a __very__Roman upper class thing-
She did say Ancient Greece "or similar", which I think technically makes it Ancient Grome.
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Definitely an energy-type introvert - social things exhaust me and I always reach a point where I just.have.to.leave.now - although I generally enjoy myself up that point as long as I know some people.
I think the thing I appreciate most about my husband is that I can come home and say "There were people. Now please fuck off and leave me alone for a while" and he doesn't take it personally. It can be very hard when people assume that your grumpiness is about them personally rather than having reached your saturation point of human contact.
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(Maybe that's how it is in a parallel universe?)
Given the direction of this thread to date, it was probably just a toga party.
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Good god, I've never seen Rule 34 enact itself so fast. Nice work, people.
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Thank you Lucy. Cameron and Clegg make such a pair.
As long as no-one tries to extend the metaphor to our current ruling coalition, it's all good.
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the thing that gets me, and hasn't been elaborated on or fully revealed (as far as I can find) is - what was an MP / Cabinet member doing taking a trip paid for by a foreign power (China): a) when he was supposed to be resting at home; and b) apparently without telling fellow Caucus members or the head of his Party...
it just looks like a highly compromising position to be in, to me... will we learn more?Yeah, I find this the most disturbing bit, too, and it's barely got any airtime. It's just not okay.
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Although now that I mention it, the thought of Parliament fan-fic is perversely appealing.
Although it is for the wrong Parliament, The Guardian is ahead of you there.
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Apparently, that whole 'men and women can't be friends' thing isn't just a myth invented by When Harry Met Sally, people really find it so.
While it has turned out that most of my closest friends are women, I have generally found men considerably easier to get on with in situations like uni and work. They're so much more straightforward, and they never expect me to talk about my hair.
(Preemptively: fellow women of PAS, you are all exempted from the above, not least because you, too, do not expect me to talk about my hair.)
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Witness my (ahem) restaint, people. It doesn't happen very often.
But do you wish it did?
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I was a 10. I can chat with anyone (if I'm struggling, I just switch modes and interview them), if not remember their names or faces.
I can't remember exactly what I got when I did it a couple of years ago now, but it was in the very high thirties/low forties. Which makes the bit on my high school testimonial where it describes me as "empathetic" really, really hilarious.
To that end, when hosting, a fantastic savior for the inexperienced is to be given a task that forces socialization, like topping up drinks, or organizing the music, or giving people name tags, or spreading some piece of information, or selling raffles, or taking a sweep on a game, or taking photos.
I found the party I had the least trouble socialising at was my wedding, because I had very specific duties - i.e. talk to everyone in the room for a minute or two, on a fairly narrow and repetitive range of topics - which made it easy to concentrate on getting round the room.