Since I’m too lazy to write anything today, it’s open thread and animal pictures time! In honor of spring FINALLY getting off the ground here in the Pacific Northwest (just in time for the official start of summer), here’s a delightful picture of an adorable turtle eating a delicious strawberry:
On a related note, check out this old dude:
There’s a story on this tortoise, who is called Lonesome George, here. He’s the last of his kind, the poor bugger. I want to cuddle him to pieces. But not literally, that would be wrong. And am I the only person who can’t hear anything about the Galapagos without thinking of the eponymous Vonnegut novel?
So to all of you out there with or without turtle shells, happy Friday! Here’s an open thread for you for the weekend! Discuss whatever you want, so long as it’s not, you know, mean. Here are some topics and random questions to get you started:
- Self-promotion: What have you written/sung/eaten/podcasted/flashmobbed about lately? Put a link in the comments and reap the glorious rewards of droves (read: 20!) people flooding your web site with unmitigated adoration. Try your hand at using the a href tag to make it pretty!
- You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing s/he is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
- What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
- Pitches: Want me to write about something, or answer a question, or interview your grandma in order to make her internet-famous? Leave a comment and I’ll probably do it. Unless it’s, you know, mean. Or creepy. Or costs money. If there are cookies involved, all the better.
- What are you doing this weekend?
Self Promo: Your readers can come to my blog for something a little less itelligent if they want. I'm looking for new blogs to read and will have a look at theirs too …Lunch with the bitches I admire: I would politely contradict their comments in the hope they'd respect me for my big strong back bone. If they don't then I admire them less than I thought. Shame, that!Something I do differently: My job, I spend a majority of it blogging and delegating. It steals my soul, it would steal my soul less if I actually put something in to it, but I can't bring myself to. My philosophy on life is that if you're to do something, you're to do your best at it. I find it impossible to apply this philosophy in work.Question: Sarah … why don't you keep a personal blog anymore? Go on, give us something of you
Todays word verification: mouth
That strawberry-eating turtle is great! Here are some strawberries growing by the Russian embassy in DC, down the street from my place.Hmm, self-promotion: I ate some really tasty asparagus with grilled lemons recently.Re: lunch with critics: I'd probably say something snarky and truthful and see what would happen.Something I do differently: The only things I can think of are not that uncommon (walking to work/ eating vegan/ using a toaster oven). Maybe I am secretly boring. Oh dear.My grandma is already internet famous! Well, semi-internet famous. She's a writer and her first book is available on Amazon. She's also recently requested to be my facebook friend, but I haven't responded to that.This weekend, I'm going to roller derby in Baltimore. Fun stuff!
Sillywrongbutvividright – How did I not realize until JUSTTHISVERYSECOND that you were keeping a blog in a different spot? I had been following your adventures but now I must run off thisverysecond to read everything in chronological order! Maybe I’ll print it out so I can read it on the plane this weekend. YAY!Your job – I know we all want to do our best at everything we do, but if your heart’s not in it, you might be better off being “good enough” at your day job, and then taking all that excess energy and applying it somewhere where you have real passion – like, say, writing letters to your overseas internet friends! Or blogging, or making really killer cups of tea, or writing literary nonfiction, or teaching other people how to skydive, or being a parent or spinster aunt, or being a professional Twitter-er, or growing bonsai trees, or whatever other gazillion things there are to do in the world that are way more awesome than whatever it is you are currently doing.Hmmm personal posts, eh? You know, I could probably write an entire post on that. But the short story is that I think I stopped posting personal stuff around my last breakup, as she was very curious about/jealous of my online life and during our final days became hyperanalytical of everything I said here. I didn’t want to accidentally harm her feelings and so switched to social commentary and found I liked it. Then I started reading a whole lotta feminist literature, then family members and a few coworkers found it… But all that being said, your wish is my command. I shall gin up something only mildly blackmailable for you posthaste! But I require cookies and/or biscuits in return!
Deena – does this mean you have a cool roller derby name? Like Disco Deena the Destroyer? Or Demolition Deena of Devastation? What does your grandma write about? Can I read this book? That’s pretty darn nifty! Also? Your food looks amazing. I would post this picture I have of me eating an entire pie and then make a witty remark, but my phone (which is also my camera) has gone kaput, battery-wise.
- Self-promo: I recently blogged about making poetry out of spam emails: link. – criticism: tell them that the person they're criticizing is my friend, too, I haven't had any issues with them and that I don't want to hear unjustified criticism. – something I do different: meditate. I can only do it when I'm taking a brisk walk or doing other physical activity. Sitting/lying down does nothing for me! – Pitches: I think it would cool if you wrote a humorous short story loosely based on something that's actually happened to you (or someone you know!) – What I'm doing this weekend: cooking up a storm and spending some much-needed time with family. There may even be homemade strawberry shortcake!
Sarah you are the worst penpal in the history of penpals!! The ball has been in your court for about a year!? I don't live at that address anymore, anyway … perhaps we can start up again, sometime!? Wondered why there was a lack of you on my blog
Lydia – Your spam poetry is absolutely lovely! Hmmm… a fictionalized account of real events, eh? Done!I used to meditate… and find that I'm not too great at sitting in one spot for long periods of time – walking meditation seems like a great alternative.Sillywrongbutvividright – I am so ashamed.
But! I promise to write soon as I'm doing much work-related travel these days and find myself hanging out for long periods of time at airports with nothing but my own thoughts to keep me company. Send your new address!
Alas, I am not a derby girl myself, so no derby name for me. Someone's already taken Miss Anthropy, which would've been my first choice of name, so no ideas beyond that.My grandma's book is a biography of a man named Knud Dyby who worked on behalf of Danish Jews during World War II. The book is sold on Amazon, so you can definitely read it–I'm guessing WorldCat would even be able to find it in some libraries.How can you deprive me of photographic pie-eating evidence?! Sad story! Charge those batteries, I say! Also, I will make you food someday. Never fear.
Ooh Miss Anthropy is a most excellent moniker. I doubt I would've thought of it though – probably why I'd only ever make a good spectator at derbies!
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