"but how are you supposed to find romance if you don't go to bars?"

[ontology]

At work today I was informed by my co-worker (male, twenty-five) that I need to cut loose more often. Apparently this is because my two-week holiday with my family next month will not involve drinking, partying, and picking up strange men in bars. "Getting drunk isn't my idea of fun at all," I said. "Hangovers are really not my idea of fun." He kind of looked at me and protested, "Don't knock it till you try it!" Uh, thanks, co-worker, but no thank you. (Disclaimer: very much not a teetotaller. If it weren't illegal, what with me being not quite nineteen, I would probably have a glass of -- very fruity and girly -- wine fairly often.) But seriously, I have no desire to lose all of my inhibitions and do things I would be justifiably embarrassed about later, possibly even ashamed of, not to mention putting myself in danger. Also, hangover. No-one enjoys a hangover. Why not just avoid them altogether by being responsible with the drink? Also, strange men in bars? Yuck.

But -- seriously? I am uptight? I need to cut loose? I mean... no one has ever said this to me before. Ever. And when I told my parents they laughed even harder than I had.

In other news, I persuaded a girl to buy a copy of A Countess Below Stairs. Hurrah! Also need to write post for book blog BUT WHAT ABOUT.

Comments

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

oes this go for all experiences? Like, maybe I would actually enjoy having surgery without anesthesia or jamming a fork through my hand; how do I know since I haven't tried it?
"You're driving a spork into your leg." "So I am! HILARIOUS."

(Alessandra's brother Brennan re-enacted this with a knife once. It went badly. :D)

Also, I plan to run a series on the blog in regards to Vampire Novels Which Don't Suck. (Verily, the pun is inescapable.) So perhaps I just ought to start. Wondering if I should review the Hamblys together or separately, though. And how much I should warn people about certain bits of Sunshine (...my mother reads that journal). I should also review vampire novels that I haven't liked. :/ In the case of Twilight, that will probably turn into philosophical discussion of how Bella is an idiot with less sense than her cactus (I SHIP BELLA/CACTUS! TEAM CACTUS FOREVER!) and Edward is a psychopath and why are parents thinking this is a totally awesome thing for their nine-year-olds to read?

Maybe I should just do a PRETTY COVERS ZOMG post to get me back off the ground...

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

I still haven't reviewed Sunshine--okay, any vampire books except Those Who Hunt the Night, actually, if you don't count a Twilight sort-of review that was basically a bunch of links, which OF COURSE THE INTERNET ATE so it never got posted--but it's part of the vampire-book series I'm planning. Once I a) have time and b) stop being lame. But I think regarding Sunshine, I'll probably just give the same general disclaimer I did when I recc'd it elsewhere: it's more adult than her other books and includes a fairly short scene of explicit almost-sex with a vampire, which I figure covers it well enough.