Today was a day of small nice things

So. I got my good performance rating. I didn't really think about it, liked it obviously but didn't think until I was headed home that I really didn't expect it. I also realized it means bonus money - that's not a bad thing.

Then I went to the gym, and picked up my old weight for the first time since I snapped my damn neck. I lifted it 6 times - not what I used to do but a ballpark figure! Happy! I had a pretty decent workout, was happy. Came home, ate a ton o' nachos and was more happy. Gym. Nachos. Happy.

I reiterate: happy posts suck.

I got COERCED into going to Alch - and had fun! The music didn't suck, and the crowd ranged from cool to visually entertaining. I had this one odd flash though - I really hadn't decided to go out until Tracy pushed my last button saying I should celebrate my work thingy. I walked into the club, and for some reason I thought about the underground club scene in Bad Influence. I found it funny that my boring government job event celebration was the 'wild club.' Neato. I really had fun, but much to my surprise they kept playing good songs (except for a nice long relaxing break of synthpop crap). I actually had to leave because I kept dancing, and I'm pushing the limits of my shin-splints already so it hurts like fuck and I know it will hurt more once it sets in. Sigh.

How to pick up a girl
1. Don't go out even thinking of picking up a girl
2. Have some girl notice you and go "Hmm."
3. Turn out to be a friend of the girl's friend.
4. Be nice, but not terribly interested in the girl.
5. Do something showy, like hug 10 friends or dance.
6. Ignore the attempts to hug or dance with you by the girl.
7. Right when she thinks you have no interest whatsoever, do something in passing like a light touch on the elbow or shoulder
8. Ignore them entirely after that.
This should lead to an infatuation that could last 6 months to 5 years. Yes kids, it's that easy. I'm not sure if this trick works unless you do it by accident when you in fact lack interest.

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You know, I find that the lyrics to the Sisters of Mercy's "Black Planet" and Effiel 65's "Blue" really aren't all that different.

Fat chicks and Dan Savage:

So a lot of people have commented about Dan Savage taking off on fat goth chicks. My take:
1) Did no one notice his explosive column when he noted the passage of anti-gay-marriage acts? He intentionally gave out BS advice just to be rude. It was hilarious. I think he's still pissed off and just lashing out in random directions - and being a bit careless in his jabs. Perhaps he wants a bunch of angry people to write in?
2) Goths should be annoyed not because they were called stereotypically fat, but because the looks was being compared to necro. I'm sorry, I know there are some elements there but white face and dark exaggerated eyes isn't so much dead as theatre. I think corpses and goths are fairly distinct.
3) Fat. If we were to grant Mr. Savage the idea that goths are heavy, then there is the question of where this fellow made the leap from 'I want to fuck pretend-dead girls' to 'I want to fuck skinny pretend-dead girls.' No where in the letter did he mention what type of girls he was in to. The assumption Savage made was that a heavy girl would be unattractive.

Also, he's stated prior that he isn't anti-fat, though he is about display. He notes GLH (girl love handles) for people walking around in tight half-shirts, and I agree with his rating of ew. Perhaps I'm another horrid victim of societal pressure, but I hide the parts of my body I'm not happy with. I'm not ashamed of any part of my body, but frankly my arms and back look better than my gut. I don't care, but I also wear tank tops and not half shirts.

Give him one piece of credit - he noted a disjoint between trying to reject life, and showing a love of life through food. Now, I'd argue that he was wrong that there is this love of death thing screaming out of goth (it's just more arty to me, even if dark, than really deathy which in reality is quite colorful). I'd also argue that being fat doesn't show a love of food per se - it might be a metabolizing of food, or a hate of exercise, or some other factor. Most skinny fucks I know eat a ton, but have the metabolism of a humming bird.

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My new icon is gayer than your new icon!