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[tadorna]

Dear friends list:

1. I have a slight stomach ache, probably due to eating two three-course meals yesterday. I have a driving lesson in about half an hour, and my Christmas shopping isn't quite as finished as I thought it was. I may have the beginnings of a cold, although this is so far inconclusive. I am also feeling kind of ... fat. And my bedroom needs cleaning. Bearing all this in mind, and the fact that I don't really feel like it, should I go out dancing tonight?

2. Do you think I should try salsa dancing in January? I'm not sure it's really me, but my mother once told me I should say yes to everything, and think about it later.

I think I should fast today. Perhaps consume nothing but hot water with lemon.

I was feeling a bit sad about not being involved in yuletide this year. But as deadline loomed and my friends list grew more hysterical, I realised: hey - I get to read all the stories and not have to tear any of my hair out!

The radio is on and I can't hear what I'm typing in my head, so if it doesn't make sense, that's why.

Comments

[clara-posts.livejournal.com]

1. No. If you don't feel like it don't. Stay in and knit.

2. Salse dancing could be fun. I don't know how you'll get the tomato stains out of your clothes though.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

IStay in and knit.

Yes! That is exactly what I feel like doing!

don't know how you'll get the tomato stains out of your clothes though.

That's bothering me slightly, I must admit...

[sophrosyne31.livejournal.com]

1. poor duckie! feeling poorly! tsk. i think you should not go dancing, because it will be like that smiths song about going out and trying hard to be happy amongst people and then going home and being miserable. oh woops sorry, that's my life i'm talking about. you should go out! it'll be crazy fun!

i am also feeling kind of fat today, which is as you know strange, since i have the build of a wide-hipped ostrich. but yes, fatness. there are wodges of fat on my shoulderblades, i blame my ovaries. *abstruse*

2. yes. i believe in saying yes to everything. you can only try!

and hey, if you want a fic challenge, we could always just, um, challenge each other, like. a tiny friendly duel of miniature motivation.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

there are wodges of fat on my shoulderblades

How horrifying!

and hey, if you want a fic challenge, we could always just, um, challenge each other, like. a tiny friendly duel of miniature motivation.

Oh, what a good idea! That way, we won't be subjected to the ritual humiliation when we fail, but we still get that fic-posting glow if we don't. Fabulous! How should it work?

[sophrosyne31.livejournal.com]

just call me 'fatty-shoulderblades'.

hey, you up for a challenge? because i've just realised that i have two major piece of writing to do for work, a speech to write and ten columns to prepare, and so i definitely need something ficcish to keep me from doing any of these.

um, how would it work? how about if i say: i challenge you, o duck, to write me something that you will like to do!

or should we be more, like, tyrannical about it? WRITE ME PORN, LACKEY!

except it doesn't have to be porny. *looks embarrassed*

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

How about "i challenge you, o duck, to WRITE ME PORN, except it doesn't have to be porny, that you will like to do! LACKEY!"

Kind of a mixture. A bit unweildy, perhaps. but it'll be fun!

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

hey duckling! driving lessons? how's it going?

i think you should go dancing, btw.

b.x :)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Uh, crap lesson today. I appear to have forgotten the difference between left and right since last week.

Ah, and a vote for dancing. But which dancing? Tonight dancing or January dancing? Or both?

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

so when's your test? ...i failed mine seven times, you know. i would have given up if i'd made it into double figures, *lol*.

tonight dancing *and* january dancing!!!

b.x :D

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I haven't even taken my theory yet. Part of the trouble is I'm not getting to do any practice, so I spend the first half of every lesson trying to remember how the pedals work. But, seven times? That makes me feel better, thank you. :)

tonight dancing *and* january dancing!!!

Gah, I knew you'd say that.

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

I'm not getting to do any practice
i didn't, either. i was actually a competent driver long before i managed to pass, the test just seemed to make me panic for some reason. i have to point out that i am currently on my fifth year of no-claims. :)

hey - fuck art, let's dance!

b.x :)

[yellow-oranges.livejournal.com]

Salsa dancing: YES!! Is much fun, and personally I find the music with the horns and the beat very infectious and always mood-boosting. Enjoy!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Cool! I'll do it. :)

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

Don't go out tonight if you don't want to. I just politely (well, I *think* I was polite, anyway) declined to go to my former employer's drinks-and-nibbles thing (and, it being her, 'drinks' means a bottle or two of pinot each, and the threat of bad loud music, and I'm so not in the mood), so you can too.

Salsa in January sounds good. I'm sort-of maybe thinking of doing yoga classes if I can, but I don't think dancing is likely to be an option for me, at least not on campus.

Hello. I'm going to go away and maybe watch some Stargate now. And wrap all the christmas presents for my sister's family.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Iiii kinda wish I hadn't bothered, but anyway.

I'd quite like to do yoga, I'm just trying to find someone I can bully into coming with me.

Oh, but I have watched all my Season 1 Stargate DVDs! What to do? Bloody thing ended on a cliffhanger, didn't it?