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Its Valentines day today, and I’ve been roundly chastised by my colleagues for not getting C anything; in my defence, this is what C & I had agreed several nights ago as we’re emerging from the holiday season and frankly we cant really justify kowtowing to the meme that is Valentines day. We just think that it’s… a bit naff, & inappropriate really and on some level, we cant justify it. We buy each other nice & unexpected stuff regularly, so why should we fall into the commercial trap of buying each other overpriced presents with hearts on it as an ‘unexpected’ gift on Valentines day? C told me that she’d far rather go out the weekend after & have a good time, than get a box of chocolates & a sickly sentimental card on the day itself. Also, we’re not really going to see each other until sometime on Friday as we’ve both got Dutch lessons in the intervening times, & get back for close to midnight) so the gift would have to be given by proxy. In all, it’s a bit daft & unsuited for us really…
Speaking of memes, I’ve seen the jodhpur meme (or whatever its called) and I completed it last night at C’s request, despite my previous post to the contrary. Do you know what happened? Exactly what I thought was going to happen; C asking me why I didn’t select ‘x’ or describe her as ‘y’. Nothing too serious, but I was right! My concerns are, and remain that its an incredibly blunt tool and a lot of the options are either similar or missing (irrepressible & insidious for a start) & for that reason I’ve decided that I’m not going to create my own test. (and not because I’m terrified of finding out what you lot would describe me as! Its not that I want to know, its just that I …um… don’t want to know… :o)
In other news, I found out what the nursery rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty’ is about – it’s a British civil war song, and is about the destruction of a huge Royalist cannon that was causing the Parliamentarian forces some problems. The roundheads couldn’t get the gun, so they blew away the wall underneath it and it down it fell, and ‘all the kings horses & all the kings men, couldn’t put humpty together again’.
S
Speaking of memes, I’ve seen the jodhpur meme (or whatever its called) and I completed it last night at C’s request, despite my previous post to the contrary. Do you know what happened? Exactly what I thought was going to happen; C asking me why I didn’t select ‘x’ or describe her as ‘y’. Nothing too serious, but I was right! My concerns are, and remain that its an incredibly blunt tool and a lot of the options are either similar or missing (irrepressible & insidious for a start) & for that reason I’ve decided that I’m not going to create my own test. (and not because I’m terrified of finding out what you lot would describe me as! Its not that I want to know, its just that I …um… don’t want to know… :o)
In other news, I found out what the nursery rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty’ is about – it’s a British civil war song, and is about the destruction of a huge Royalist cannon that was causing the Parliamentarian forces some problems. The roundheads couldn’t get the gun, so they blew away the wall underneath it and it down it fell, and ‘all the kings horses & all the kings men, couldn’t put humpty together again’.
S