WTFML

[clevermanka]

You guys. Just. Ugh. Everything is ugh. Everything except the Chevelle is ugh. Personal stuff, job stuff, health stuff, stuff stuff, it's just.....uuuuugggggh.

I would consider having a nervous breakdown, but I don't have the energy for it, nor can I fit it into my schedule.

This amusing example of one of many recent irritants adds to the whole What-The-Fuck-My-Life that made it a teensy bit hard to get out of bed this morning:

When I backed out of the show that's happening tonight, I told the organizer that I would still attend. Since that, the two bands that we'd planned to perform with have canceled (one backed out early, the other broke up), and now it's just a burlesque show. Now, those of you who do/love burlesque, that's cool. It's just...I don't like it. I don't enjoy it, and I'm a little bored by it. Nothing against the art form at all. I think it's awesome--just not my thing. But okay, so now I'm obligated to attend this show, and I'm going alone, so I'll be sober, attending a show in which I'm not terribly interested, and because I'm not performing, I have to pay at the door. At least it's only five bucks.

Also, I think coffee is the culprit in my constant state of inflammation that's lasted since November-ish. I'm cutting it out cold turkey. Today is day one.

I'm grateful that Saturday's Krav Maga workshop at Ambler Rec Center was full and I got put on the list for the April workshop. I'll feel better by April. I've got to feel better by April.

Comments

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Life is just. Argh. *throws up hands*

Good luck going cold turkey on the coffee. I'm not a huge drinker but I do love a good cup of delicious Caribou coffee a couple times a week. My specialty is tea. Delicious, delicious tea. I have a cupboard FULL of teas. I might have a problem. *shifty look*

Also, I totally empathise with being obligated to be somewhere you don't want to be. Meh.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I normally don't do things just because I feel I "should" do them. But I need to maintain good relationships with the local performance community. So...yeah.

[djangodurango.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you don't like burlesque? D: D: D:

lol, no, I can see where it might be boring. Is it normally just stripping without any cleverness or surprise?

Can't you just fake illness the night of?

[miischelle.livejournal.com]

The flyer says there's an "Ivy Grey" bellydancing....
Maybe that will be good?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! I know. I feel like such a weirdo, because let's be honest, I like naked ladies a whole heck of a lot, I'm a fiend for costuming, I'm all about retro stuff, and I should love it. I just don't. I've seen some charming and clever routines, but it's just not my thing. *shrug*

I could just not go. But it's important for me to maintain friendly relations with the performing community. I said I'd be there, and so I shall.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they all have the potential to be good. I just don't like burlesque as a genre.

Which is ridiculous. You'd think someone who like boobs as much as I do would be all over this shit.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Jbird and I said we would go also.
He may not feel like it later, but I'd make the sacrifice if I know someone else wants to go.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

SUFFER WITH ME OH SISTER OF MINE.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I really should. I love burlesque, but I prefer real vintage films of it to amateur performances.

I really haven't seen any good burlesque performances here (except mine, of course, because it was short and to the point.)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I've heard very good things about Irene. She (apparently) brings a very old-school German cabaret vibe to the party. And she's a nice person. =)

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds interesting, and yes, she is.

[hdsqrl.livejournal.com]

Another comment on the fact that you don't like the burly scene - I've got a foot in your camp as well. Reasons I do like it are really limited to the fact that my friends are onstage, and YAY friends, go-go-go! I'm definitely not the WOOOOOOO sort of observer...I'm more content to just sit quietly and then applaud when it's over.

I suppose I'm simply more appreciative of something my friends are doing than appreciative of the art form itself. People have asked me why I don't take a class, and there's zero interest in me to do so. I get it, I'm glad others dig it, I'll support them and laugh and applaud at clever routines, but I'm not at all interested in going to a show that includes only performers I don't personally know. :\

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

*fistbump*

Yes, thank you for bringing that up. I am not a participatory observer. I just want to watch whatever it is I'm watching. I don't expect people to applaud me until I finish a performance. Stop asking me to hoot during a show, for godssake.

Argh.

[hdsqrl.livejournal.com]

Of course, sighing over Fraser is the sort of participatory watching that can't be helped, though. ;)

[harmfulguy.livejournal.com]

My initial response to your title was, "Oh shit, am I going to have to learn another gorram markup language now?"

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

YES WELL BENTON FRASER IS AN EXCEPTION TO MANY THINGS.