Notes From a Day
Oct. 30th, 2005 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythThere is a quote on the wall in the music department, where I work nearly every day. It says "People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven quartet."
I can't help but reflect on the irony as I try and tune out the shitty in-store play music it's my responsibility to keep running. Even though I think the quote is full of it.
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Things that piss me off about the Christmas Holiday Season, much as I enjoy Christmas:
1: Decorations up at the beginning of October. FUCKING OCTOBER.
2: "A Christmas Story". I hate this movie. It's not funny. At all. But it's a "Christmas classic." Sure. It's about a whole family being dicks to each other back in the 40s, in a setting and era that has very little in common with my anything I have to deal with. Every character in the movie is mean and none of them are likable, not even the narrating kid. Hate.
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If most people think everybody else is having more sex than them, then there's some extreme over-estimation of the amount of getting it on going on. Admittedly, at least half of a group is going to be below average, on average, but a few sluts and porn stars can REALLY skew the results, even with large sample sizes.
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Yay for biofeedback. I've noticed being hungry makes most of my emotions exaggerated. Well, the negative ones, anyway. Amazing how much better having food can make me feel. Or maybe most of my problems are but small ones, they're just so close they seem huge.
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When did Sesame Street turn into The Elmo Show?
I can't help but reflect on the irony as I try and tune out the shitty in-store play music it's my responsibility to keep running. Even though I think the quote is full of it.
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Things that piss me off about the Christmas Holiday Season, much as I enjoy Christmas:
1: Decorations up at the beginning of October. FUCKING OCTOBER.
2: "A Christmas Story". I hate this movie. It's not funny. At all. But it's a "Christmas classic." Sure. It's about a whole family being dicks to each other back in the 40s, in a setting and era that has very little in common with my anything I have to deal with. Every character in the movie is mean and none of them are likable, not even the narrating kid. Hate.
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If most people think everybody else is having more sex than them, then there's some extreme over-estimation of the amount of getting it on going on. Admittedly, at least half of a group is going to be below average, on average, but a few sluts and porn stars can REALLY skew the results, even with large sample sizes.
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Yay for biofeedback. I've noticed being hungry makes most of my emotions exaggerated. Well, the negative ones, anyway. Amazing how much better having food can make me feel. Or maybe most of my problems are but small ones, they're just so close they seem huge.
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When did Sesame Street turn into The Elmo Show?
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Date: 2005-10-29 10:43 pm (UTC)1) I don't care for Elmo...I think he's a brat and his example breeds brats. Granted, I was a brat myself long before he came along, so I should know.
2) I think this fixation on sex isn't so much a folk phenomenon as it is an attempt by commercial interests to generate one. Granted, this has been going on forever, but I feel the only people who are counting are the ones who want to sell us Viagra.
Nobody has ever said to me that my reputation in society depends on how often I have sex. Of course, I consider myself to be utterly devoid of sex appeal if not physically impotent. I can admit this openly because I doubt anybody else would be embarrassed if I said it. To a celebate virgin, it is easy to assume that anybody who has ever had sex, if only ONCE in their lifetime, is having MORE sex than they do.
3) My birthday is only ten days before Christmas and usually I'm already tired of Yuletide by then. The stores decorate early because they know they'd be too busy around Thanksgiving...but still I despise the whole thing. I hate the total phoniness of the "Christmas Spirit". I know that sounds really "not Christian" of me, but it's true. Do you think Jesus would like how we treat his alleged birthday?