I wouldn't have expected to fully understand someone who (likely) has more money than the last three generations of my family, and yet I do. For the better part of a year, a bank-teller called me by a nickname, a nickname that I regard as personal between members of my immediate family (mostly because I can't stop them from using it), and a stranger was just presuming that was what I liked to be called. I previously had no idea that nicknames was a personal boundary of mine, but there it was.
I eventually got her to stop by telling her a nickname that I preferred, and I suspect I was the bitch in that situation.
I've never done that as I research everything, but I really wanted to with the first Hobbit movie. It was soooooo long and I was so bored, but as I'd been dragged there by family I couldn't.
I'm so happy Galavant is back! Also I've been bingeing Leverage and it's delightful, and I'm a little in love with all the attractive people on it.
Have also been watching The Clone Wars cartoon because I don't have enough Star Wars in my life. Once I got past the animation style (I hate CGI in cartoons, it just doesn't look as nice), the stories are really good and the character development is better than in the entire prequel trilogy. Anakin's turn to the Dark Side is actually compelling, and it's so strange to me that I really like a kid's show better than the movies.
Even my conservative and not really nerdy Dad has been, "When is Agent Carter coming back? It's been forever."
All the things doctors say you shouldn't have on your period like chocolate cupcakes and Dr Pepper. I am full of directionless fury/stubbornness at the best of times and it increases tenfold on my period. Apparently I will rebel against anyone telling me what to do, even if it's a doctor.
Oh that is so terrible. You are absolutely right to be scared. I have a relation who I am ... suspicious about the pet loses he experiences when involved with people. I keep my cat very far from him, and when I have to been near him. I second CCoryy says, as that is my standard procedure whenever he is with fifty miles of me. I can't recommend the baseball bat thing enough, I have several walking sticks (I had a friend who made them a lot) in each room and they are very good. All in all, it's very workable advice.
Colonel Brandon was what I used to explain my teenage crush on him to people who only knew him from Harry Potter or Galaxy Quest. I would put that on and suddenly the women in my life suddenly got it. "The air is full spices" is also a fantastic line that gives me shivers.
I'm tempted to pitch a piece about Rickman, myself, and my Dad who is broken up about Rickman. After breaking the news to me in a terrifying way (the phrase "Horrible things have happened in the world" creates many horrifying imaginings in the space of a few seconds) he said to me, "He's been in so many of my favorite movies. I feel like that "American Pie" song. The day movies died." It's so amazing to me that movies that I saw mostly because I had a crush, ended up affecting my Dad so much.
It never really comes up as a thing they have to deal with, but yes, Beta Colony is very creepy that way. There's a lot about it that's very Utopia-like, but there's very much an undercurrent that people don't satisfaction/freedom there. In contrast to Barrayar, where it's very backwards in it's treatment of women and disabilities and so many other things, but there's room to fight and work for better things and that and that's what draws some people there (it doesn't for everyone, of course, which puts a damper on romances for Cordelia's son).
(Barrayar is really good, read it too. Also her next book is going to be about Cordelia!)
Huh. I knew it was something, I just assumed it was a blend of a bunch of scents and my nose wasn't good enough to pick out individual notes out of many (I remember growing up and women's perfumes being this overwhelming wave of rose and jasmine and who knows what else). Never occurred to me that it was a synthetic smell that I wouldn't have run into elsewhere. That's really very interesting.
Also I'm mighty tickled to see a cucumber lover nod and say that it's just like that scent, except most of the time you enjoy it. Terribly sorry about the date, I'm glad you eventually regained your love.
(I had tzatziki with gyros once, by a well-meaning relation who had forgotten my weirdness. I'm told my face was a portrait of betrayal when I had the first bite.)
Luckily, my nose lets me know of the danger before it gets anywhere near my mouth. I'm very rarely ever caught unawares, the only time in recent memory was a friend giving me gyros to tr.
The weird thing is cucumber and melon candles aren't as bad as those Rainy Day candles. It's not a great smell, and I don't like it, but it's nothing like the gross smell of real cucumbers or melons. Also it's odd to see my exact opinions on cucumbers, melons and pickles written by someone who's not me, I honestly thought I was the only one who felt that way about them.
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