"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

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

He kind of looked at me and protested, "Don't knock it till you try it!"

I can never think to say this when people say something like that to me, but...really? Does 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? And also, you know the common wisdom about learning from your mistakes? Learning from other people's mistakes is an even better idea, because then you don't have to make them yourself!

And yes. You are clearly uptight because you do not subscribe to the (actually quite narrow) societal definitions of having fun, which generally seem to involve lots of sex and substances that are not overly good for the body.

Also need to write post for book blog BUT WHAT ABOUT.

...vampire books better than Twilight? The tragic duty of booksellers to destroy remaindered books? The difference between good and bad covers or good and bad blurbs?

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

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?
AHAHAH. Kyra, you are awesome. :D ♥

[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.