What To Do? Hey! Buy A Vidder!

[sisabet]

Auction. Go. Bid. Fire Bad; Vidders Pretty.

http://www.vividcon.com/auction.cgi

Incidentally - does a semicolon belong up there with the whole "fire bad" thing? Unfortunately, grammar rules I once knew quite well, rules that were my friends, are deserting me in my dotage.

I am of the hap, hap, happy because tomorrow I have a heres_luck of my very own to cook with and watch "Wonderfalls" with and to play songs that will be prefaced with a "So and then Buffy..." with and to watch vids with and just generally have fun with. Yay.

Also, I am happy because I know that she will understand if she gets to my house and sees that I couldn't stop to clean because I was vidding. She will get that I had every intention of a spotless home but then...::points madly:: vid!!

I was reading all of the responses to eliade's post about nonfannish things to do and realized that I guess I am lucky. Well, for starters - most of the things other people do would make me stab out my eyes with a fork - but then most of the way I fritter away my time on Earth would probably affect them the same way, so YAY for the wonderful diversity of humans.

No, I am lucky because I always have something to do. When I was a kid, this was not always the case. Often I could be found draping myself dramatically across the sofa and declaring "There is nothing to do" which was an absolute lie because I grew up on a farm with acres upon acres of land and ponds and wooded groves and any animal that I ever wanted and some that freaked me out. What I meant was "There is nothing that I want to do currently available to me" and this was truly the plague of my childhood. I remember long periods of boredom that I am grateful for now because it did enable me to develop a very sturdy imagination and enthusiasm for simple things like going to the library and seeing a movie at the theater. These are Big Deal Items for me and now, as an adult, I can do them whenever I want. Yay!

Now, most of the time I don't want to do any of the many things that I have available to do - most of the time I want to curl up and just check out for a while and let the TV tell me a story. But I think this is just indicative of long work days and general laziness. But sometimes I perk up and need another place to be, or thing to think about or action to accomplish. On those days poor Sid-the-dog-faced-boy gets a lot of attention. I also have to be careful on those days with my wallet because if you get the least bit of energy in me and Sid is all walked out, I am liable to go and buy things. Pretty things that smell good or are pink. There could possibly be flowers involved. Somedays, I just need the opposite of Zoloft.

::stepfords::

But - in the interest of participating in this whole life thingamabob, I possibly need to do "more" (although I do anticipate a rise in enforced clubbing as Lexington's patio season and Keeneland's Spring Session is almost upon us) so I will now take the whole "Get back into taking Yoga Classes" from my backbrain to my actual "Yeah, I should do this" brain. This means I won't actually do this, but when I actually have a moment of free time where I could be doing this instead of the nothing that I usually do, I will allow myself to experience guilt over the not doing this.

Ahhh Guilt. My most practiced hobby.

::cuddles guilt::

::would take guilt to park, but guilt likes it when I forget::

Comments

[timba.livejournal.com]

No on the semi colon. It's a period, I think.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

It should be a comma or a period. They're technically phrases or sentence fragments rather than sentences anyway, because the verb is being assumed rather than given.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Stupid semicolon. It is never correct. I should just ban its usage outright in my posts, except it is all sexy with its period and comma together like the OTP of punctuation. They are all Dave and Maddied.

Sigh.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I am so fond of the semicolon. It's so elegant-looking. A college newspaper editor once made me delete half of them from an article because "newspaper articles should have shorter sentences," which only confirmed my conviction that I was not made to be a journalist.

If I were not so tired, I would rewrite that pargraph to use semicolons, but I respect them too much to use them in an inappropriate fashion.

[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

I, too, love the semicolon. And parentheses. If I can get through more than a couple of paragraphs without at least one parenthetical comment, it's a miracle. It just mirrors the way my brain works. I mean, do people really know, when they start a sentence, exactly how it's going to end and the efficient, linear, no-stopping-off-to-check-out-the-scenic-view way to get there?

On another note: Keeneland! sisabet, do you actually go to the races, or do people just come to town for the races and then take you clubbing?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I supposedly go to races - except I don't. I always have an excuse, or I am the girl who stays behind at the office to man the phones - EXCEPT for this year. This year I go (I've already reserved my spot in the box) and I have told everyone in this office they can get a new Little Miss StaysBehind. I am going to see the ponies!

[(Anonymous)]

Fire Bad; Vidders Pretty.
http://www.vividcon.com/auction.cgi
Incidentally - does a semicolon belong up there with the whole "fire bad" thing? Unfortunately, grammar rules I once knew quite well, rules that were my friends, are deserting me in my dotage.


Weirdly enough, I just looked that up the other day...
Strunk and White say that independent clauses should be joined by a semicolon, except for
a) colloquialisms, and
b) very short clauses that are alike in form; like "Fire Bad, Vidders Pretty." (Their example is "Man proposes, God disposes.")

Uh.

I'm not a nerd. I swear.