Happy Boys are Stupid Day!
Feb. 14th, 2001 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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If a Valentine is postmarked on Feb. 14th, it counts as on time, right? It works with taxes, after all..
So I'm sitting here watching ssh2 compile, eating lunch, answering email, and listening to my bad relationship CD (Maybe You Should Drive, by BNL). It seemed appropriate, given the day.
It's my bad relationship CD for two reasons. Most of the songs have to do with bad relationships (with the notable exception of "Life, in a Nutshell"). BNL does talk about bad relationships on a fairly regular basis, but this CD seems to dwell on it more than the others. Also, I got the CD at about the same time as my relationship with a former boyfriend started to go downhill, associating it in my mind with that time. Reinforced by listening to it during my recent breakup, as well.
I saw a guy in an ROTC uniform on campus today, which brought back memories of my most recent ex. And then I realized that it's the first time in ages that I've thought of him as I did when we first started dating (as opposed to "That jerk who dumped me and hooked back up with his ex who he spent our whole relationship complaining about").
"Little Tiny Song" from Maybe You Should Drive:
Hey I'm a cow, I'm curious
Hey watch me now, I'm furious
Hey I'm a cow, I'm full of hate
Hey watch me now, I'm on your plate
Yup, that's the whole song. Well, with a few repetitions of various lines thrown in. I find it endlessly amusing.
I love BNL.
Someone on a mailing list I'm on dubbed today Boys are Stupid Day. I like it. It appeals to my inner 3rd grader, who still thinks that boys have cooties.
I actually care very little about Valentine's Day this year. Yeah, it's a wee bit depressing to be single, but I'm largely single by choice. And I think this is the first time since about 7th grade or so when I haven't spent Valentine's Day feeling somewhere between exceptionally bitter and suicidally depressed.
The amusing thing about the valentines that I'm sending out today to family members is that I actually bought them ages ago. Middle of January or so. But I decided I couldn't send them at that point, because it would be too early. And I didn't just go and forget about them either - I thought of them at numerous times in between then and now. But I didn't think of them during the period of time when it would have been good to send them, apparently. So now I'm here trying to get them done so I can at least get them postmarked by today.
Someone at the office (I'm betting on our manager) gave us all flowers from the "Valentine's Bunny". I wonder if I can manage to keep them alive for a reasonable length of time.
This seems to be one of those days when my past keeps coming back to haunt me. On the way back from lunch, I ran into one of my profs from freshman year. It was her class where my inability to get words onto paper when required to in a school setting first showed up. When I saw her, I just knew I was going to see this girl who was in the class who tormented me about dropping it for the rest of my freshman year. And sure enough, I was walking to the mailbox to drop off the cards and there she was. This is the first time I've seen her in two years. Why did she show up on the exact day when I ran into the prof, and the day I knew I'd see her? That seems to happen to me a lot.
After that little incident, I realized that the incidents that come back from my past to haunt me seem to always be the negative ones. Why did I have to run into those two? Why couldn't I have run into the cute guy I met at a conference my freshman year in high school (who I recently found out attends college here) instead? Now admittedly I haven't seen this guy in 7 years or so (wow, has it been that long?), and I couldn't pick him out of a picture. So maybe I'm actually running into him every day, and just not realizing it.
I'm feeling the need to lose weight. I'm actually, for the first time in god knows how long, fairly comfortable with my appearance. But I am about 30 pounds above my ideal weight, and not eating terribly well or getting enough exercise. So I think it would be a good idea to get started with some sort of exercise program before I get even more caught in the evil geek sedentary lifestyle cycle.
Oh, and if I could drop 20-30 pounds by June, I'd be quite happy. (How reasonable of a goal is that?)
My main problem with exercise (as with most other things) seems to be motivation. What I'm hoping is that I can find someone else who's willing to do this also. That way there's someone to drag me out on days when I don't want to go, and it would also provide a social aspect that it usually missing from physical activities for me.
A friend at work mentioned wanting to lose weight. I wonder if he'd be interested? The downside of that being that he lives out of town, and that between the two of us, 3 nights of the week are taken up with some class or another already.
I'm thinking either about signing up at the 24/7 gym, which has a 90 day intoductory offer, or the school gym (which is cheaper, but I suspect it has less features), and then just try to have fun with it. And then sign up for something a bit more guided/strenuous (probably some form of martial arts again) once I get a bit more sure of myself and in the habit.
If a Valentine is postmarked on Feb. 14th, it counts as on time, right? It works with taxes, after all..
So I'm sitting here watching ssh2 compile, eating lunch, answering email, and listening to my bad relationship CD (Maybe You Should Drive, by BNL). It seemed appropriate, given the day.
It's my bad relationship CD for two reasons. Most of the songs have to do with bad relationships (with the notable exception of "Life, in a Nutshell"). BNL does talk about bad relationships on a fairly regular basis, but this CD seems to dwell on it more than the others. Also, I got the CD at about the same time as my relationship with a former boyfriend started to go downhill, associating it in my mind with that time. Reinforced by listening to it during my recent breakup, as well.
I saw a guy in an ROTC uniform on campus today, which brought back memories of my most recent ex. And then I realized that it's the first time in ages that I've thought of him as I did when we first started dating (as opposed to "That jerk who dumped me and hooked back up with his ex who he spent our whole relationship complaining about").
"Little Tiny Song" from Maybe You Should Drive:
Hey I'm a cow, I'm curious
Hey watch me now, I'm furious
Hey I'm a cow, I'm full of hate
Hey watch me now, I'm on your plate
Yup, that's the whole song. Well, with a few repetitions of various lines thrown in. I find it endlessly amusing.
I love BNL.
Someone on a mailing list I'm on dubbed today Boys are Stupid Day. I like it. It appeals to my inner 3rd grader, who still thinks that boys have cooties.
I actually care very little about Valentine's Day this year. Yeah, it's a wee bit depressing to be single, but I'm largely single by choice. And I think this is the first time since about 7th grade or so when I haven't spent Valentine's Day feeling somewhere between exceptionally bitter and suicidally depressed.
The amusing thing about the valentines that I'm sending out today to family members is that I actually bought them ages ago. Middle of January or so. But I decided I couldn't send them at that point, because it would be too early. And I didn't just go and forget about them either - I thought of them at numerous times in between then and now. But I didn't think of them during the period of time when it would have been good to send them, apparently. So now I'm here trying to get them done so I can at least get them postmarked by today.
Someone at the office (I'm betting on our manager) gave us all flowers from the "Valentine's Bunny". I wonder if I can manage to keep them alive for a reasonable length of time.
This seems to be one of those days when my past keeps coming back to haunt me. On the way back from lunch, I ran into one of my profs from freshman year. It was her class where my inability to get words onto paper when required to in a school setting first showed up. When I saw her, I just knew I was going to see this girl who was in the class who tormented me about dropping it for the rest of my freshman year. And sure enough, I was walking to the mailbox to drop off the cards and there she was. This is the first time I've seen her in two years. Why did she show up on the exact day when I ran into the prof, and the day I knew I'd see her? That seems to happen to me a lot.
After that little incident, I realized that the incidents that come back from my past to haunt me seem to always be the negative ones. Why did I have to run into those two? Why couldn't I have run into the cute guy I met at a conference my freshman year in high school (who I recently found out attends college here) instead? Now admittedly I haven't seen this guy in 7 years or so (wow, has it been that long?), and I couldn't pick him out of a picture. So maybe I'm actually running into him every day, and just not realizing it.
I'm feeling the need to lose weight. I'm actually, for the first time in god knows how long, fairly comfortable with my appearance. But I am about 30 pounds above my ideal weight, and not eating terribly well or getting enough exercise. So I think it would be a good idea to get started with some sort of exercise program before I get even more caught in the evil geek sedentary lifestyle cycle.
Oh, and if I could drop 20-30 pounds by June, I'd be quite happy. (How reasonable of a goal is that?)
My main problem with exercise (as with most other things) seems to be motivation. What I'm hoping is that I can find someone else who's willing to do this also. That way there's someone to drag me out on days when I don't want to go, and it would also provide a social aspect that it usually missing from physical activities for me.
A friend at work mentioned wanting to lose weight. I wonder if he'd be interested? The downside of that being that he lives out of town, and that between the two of us, 3 nights of the week are taken up with some class or another already.
I'm thinking either about signing up at the 24/7 gym, which has a 90 day intoductory offer, or the school gym (which is cheaper, but I suspect it has less features), and then just try to have fun with it. And then sign up for something a bit more guided/strenuous (probably some form of martial arts again) once I get a bit more sure of myself and in the habit.
