Zen - thing is, I have more money in my account than I ever have. It's just that the income is going to stop in a couple of weeks and there is nothing on the horizon. But people around here are hiring and luckily, like really really luckily, I am not in a place where I need to get a job paying what I was making before. I just need a job within a month or two that will have benefits and at least half of what I was bringing in for the last few months.
Because I am so "nice" when the parents start to lecture I quote Bible verses back to them. Matthew 6:34 is a favorite. I also like to start singing the hymn God Will Take Care Of You.
If you have to use peer pressure from thousands of strangers to ensure a yes
Do you really think the public angle is strongarming? I figure it's showing off, or at most innocuous just amping things up by making a public declaration of the true love.
I'd shoot anyone that did it to me, because it means they'd have read me really wrong--I don't like productions, but peer pressure? That's a really negative read.
I buy myself stuff all the time and don't stop just because it's Christmas. cf above about productions--I'd never wrap it, though, or even wait to use it. It's my stuff. I bought it. I want it now. I don't let December mess with that, even if it's mentally tagged Christmas or birthday present.
I don't want to talk to my boss about the document he had me redact. I'm still pissed. It's minutes of a meeting. You can't just imply shit wasn't said and still call it minutes.
We had the intranet go down yesterday, after the main developer went home. So I was called to troubleshoot. Oy! Intranet just got handed to me a couple months ago, and I don't know shit about it. Luckily I can spot a hung apache tomcat service. Damned shame we had to get the entire IT management involved in restarting it, but at least we didn't have to disturb the developer. That's, like, the first time ever.
Man, I had a sudden strange craving for hot chocolate this morning, and the place? Doesn't sweeten it. Rock.
The original Tron isn't on DVD, so it's long out of print. Someone I was reading the other day thinks it is because Disney doesn't want people to remember how terrible it was.
Everyone I know in the industry agrees that Disney pulled it back into The Vault so that people wouldn't watch it for the first time, go "Wait...THAT'S Tron??!?!?!!!" and then skip the sequel.
Fortunately we had the good sense to buy it on DVD before this happened, so we were able to revel in all it's Tron-y goodness before the Legacy screening.
Everyone I know in the industry agrees that Disney pulled it back into The Vault so that people wouldn't watch it for the first time, go "Wait...THAT'S Tron??!?!?!!!" and then skip the sequel.
At least they didn't pull a Lucas and re-release it with improved special effects in 3D or somesuch....
The couple of times I've know the pair who has had a public proposal - the proposal was perfect for their relationship. One was a scoreboard proposal at the A's with the cameras catching her reaction. She was absolutely thrilled. The other was more of a scavenger hunt proposal and again, it was something that delighted the bride to be.
This suggests peer pressure to say yes. [link]
I'd guess that most public proposals are happening after the couple in question has had several "we should get married someday" conversations to the point where the actual asking is a formality, in which case peer pressure doesn't apply.
If it's a surprise public proposal, HELL NO THAT IS NOT OKAY.
This is either very sad or funny: Marriage Proposal Rejected at BasketBall Game
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That's my theory.
Normal temps around here in December are low 30s. Instead we've been having single digits.
So no, not just perception.
