tidbits from the weekend

[pantryslut]

The weekend was much better than the week, fortunately. I feel much better now.

Highlights:


1. IMsL quote of the night: "It's not very domly to snort." Good thing I wasn't trying. Thank you, G., for letting me leave very pretty marks all over your inner thighs.

2. Silly seders.

3. Dolores Park on Sunday. So many bunny ears! Bare-assed Jesus! An old friend in a towering bonnet, complete with taxidermied duckling!

4. Shaking with relief as I printed out my manuscript. No fucking kidding.

5. 5,4,3,2,1, helpless giggles.*




* Hey, you get cryptic or you get [data embargo]. Your choice.

Comments

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Er? You say that like "data embargo" isn't cryptic...

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

It isn't. 5. [data embargo] provides insufficient information for even basic cryptanalysis. [data embargo] isn't cryptic, it's blazingly obscure. ;)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Bingo.

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

No, I disagree. Because, see, I'm a person, not a professional, and I'm using the word "cryptic" the way people use it in conversation. You know, ordinary people, who use words in non-precise but emotionally useful ways.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

I'm a person, not a professional,

You're a *writer*. We're sort of midway between the two all the time when it comes to language. ;)

ordinary people

I am awaiting your claim to fit in this category. In triplicate, please, because I know I'm going to mess up the top set because I'll forget I shouldn't be drinking when I see them and there will end up tea/milk/water stains upon them.

who use words in non-precise but emotionally useful ways.

Ah, but here's the rub; in

Er? You say that like "data embargo" isn't cryptic...

clearly, she was aiming, in her "ordinary person" way (Hey, if you can claim it, so can she) for the indication that there was a difference. So, if she was using the words non-precisely, that difference was emotionally useful. Or, if she was using them precisely, then the precise difference *does* matter. Q.E.D., e.g., et. al., and so forth. ;) (Oh, and likewise, contrariwise.)

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

impressive.

That generated so many moments of actual LOL, culminating is a hearty guffaw. Well done! Put yourself down for a bonus on Mr. Dumpty's list.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

You two certainly have a unique way of flirting :)

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

If it's two of them, then it can't be unique, now, can it?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Sure it can. It is unuique to them as a single flirting unit consisting of two people interacting with each other.

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Well, you know how it is, horses for courses and all.

But I must thank you for bagging such a good one, and for being so generous with him. (And a few weeks after WisCon, I have every expectation of saying the same thing to him.)