Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

People are people, why bother being annoyed.

TPBM wants to organize a water balloon fight, block party style.

Haha Probably.

TPBM checks his/her email every minute.

My email checks me. Text and email notifications have forced me to keep my phone set to silent.

TPBM isn't scared of clowns, but finds them exceptionally annoying

The entire concept of clowns makes no sense to me. The same with showmanship, slapstick comedy, and magic tricks.

TPBM is glad to have a coffee pot. It’s cheaper than a Nordic Track.

Yes I am and yes it is.

TPBM is surprised at home many scarcely used exercise machines make it into the dump.

The most exercise you get out of one of those things is taking it out to the garbage.

TPBM likes red grapefruit.

Caligula? I suspect I would, but haven't made it to them yet. So many books, so little time.

TPBM was delighted by the playfulness of language and the puns that infuse Umbeto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.

I haven't read that one. It seems an interesting book based on the reviews.

TPBM doesn't like watching gory horror movies.

True, but not because of the gore. They are just about the most boring film genre on the planet.

TPBM likes watching foreign language films.

Since english is a foreign language for me, yes I do. But I do watch other foreign films, though not most of the time. I get hooked reading the subtitles.

TPBM has watched A Quiet Day in Belfast.

I haven't.

However, the person below me has watched 'Breaking the Waves'

Not yet.

TPBM is reading a book while watching a movie.

Never. It has always struck me as a particularly odd thing to lose.

TPBM can't find a book they want to cite something from.

Well, at the moment I have nothing I want to cite. If I did, though, I'm certain I'd have the same problem. I have too many books to keep track of all of them at once.

TPBM is frustrated, having finally run out of room on her bookshelf, right when the summer book sales are about to start.

Well, once I've completed the sex change operation that is very true. And I just bought another one.


TPBM prefers to hunt for used books than new books.

Lol!

True.

TPBM has more non-fiction books in his/her bookshelf.

Nope. Probably about equal fiction/non-fiction. Of course, Jungian psychology is a kind of fiction, so then that might tip it towards fiction.

TPBM single greatest book find was in the 'to be destroyed/returned stack' from their local independent book store.

No lol

TPBM has read/will read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

I don't see it often enough to find it irritating... yet.

TPBM's heart melts when they hear the word "books." Ahhh. :P

((@ Leslie 3504 I am in the habit of thinking that effective people are highly overrated and even worse that whatever makes them effective will not be found in their habits. I suspect that doing things like hanging around the WSS would be excluded from life for most of these kinds of people because the concept of 'effective' delimits the purpose of life to material achievement. And that is perhaps the least interesting thing in life to live for.))

No, because books have now become too fully infused into my bloodstream.

TPBM finds people who are focused solely on job advancement to be very boring.

Yes, I have never wanted a pony.

TPBM would like to be able to emulate the dog whisperer.

LoL! Yes! But in the end all you'd have is money and not undying friendship.

No.

TPBM has studied mathematics in university.

No... I very rarely read comic books.

TPBM just realized that they would probably test as clinically crazy, if anyone bothered to take the time to test them.

Well, I didn't just realize it. LOL. I knew that a long time ago.

TPBM is watching Scooby Doo.

LOL! No. I'm reading about TPBM who might be.


TPBM is just starting their story for Raven.

Just finished. I am glad I got it done now and not have to do it later which probably would not have happened!

TPBM likes comic books but wouldn't consider their self a "snob." :P hehe.

Nope.

TPBM likes to break out cards and boardgames on rainy days. (books too)

Oh, absolutely!!! That's my ideal rainy day, right there. (That, with some peppermint tea, and I'm set.)

TPBM loves banana bread.

love is an understatement.

TPBM has a raspberry pi

Sadly, no.

TPBM wishes they had a raspberry pie...

Yes though I have raspberry sherbet that will do just nicely.
And I LOVE banana bread!

TPBM was so glad desserts were invented! :D

Oh God, yes!!! I could not survive without deserts. Especially ones with chocolate in them. XD

TPBM is never sick of eating chocolate deserts.

Never. I do get sick of having to ruin then of at the gym though.

one of TPBM's favorite deserts its a chocolate fudge filled brownie with chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup topped with chocolate chips

Run them off*

(Salivating) That sounds absolutely amazing!!! God, I want one now...

TPBM is making cookies right now, which will probably get ruined again... XD

Not right this second. Just got done making cookies, actually. (they burned a bit)

TPBM's favorite dessert is any kind of pie, except for pumpkin pie.

No. I’m not much on sweets.

TPBM finds it interesting to see actors from the Harry Potter movies in other things. (This weekend, I watched an awful British movie that had Imelda Staunton in it.)

I go through times like that, usually when there’s so much to be done, it seems hopeless. Then, to get anything accomplished, I have to prioritize and break things down into small, manageable steps.

TPBM is already on a second cup of coffee.

Still finishing first. With a blueberry foccacia, for breakfast.

TPBM makes their own blueberry scones.

...No...?

TPBM has NOT shaved a grizzly bear (but is interested to hear about Belly's experience).

I have not (yet) and am very interested to hear Belly's tale.

TPBM thought Lance Armstrong was the one who landed on the moon?

Actually, I thought he was from the moon.

TPBM thinks that the moon as a metaphor for anything is at best ambivalent.

Having made a moon landing or two myself, I’m not surprised to find out that DJ Lance (whoever he may be) has made one.

TPBM likes olives stuffed with garlic.

Has the person above me had many positive experiences along those lines?

TPBM is ready for a long cocktail hour.

No, I like my hours to be no more than 60 minutes, tops.

TPBM has had several interesting conversations and at least one meaningful relationship that has developed out of a book s/he was reading while on a commuter bus or train.

Don't ride the bus, and the train was too bumpy to read.
M, I'm definitely ready for an extended happy hour, CHEERS!

TPBM is going to set their phone to silent, and enjoy the rest of their night uninhibited from any more calls from work

((Zack, you can edit your posts - just click on the edit button upper right side of the post you want to edit. You can only edit your own posts.))

Yes, but then no one calls me so it seems anti-climactic

TPBM is getting ready to do yoga.

I know guy, was on my phone ...editing is unavailable within the goodreads app.

Nope, gearing down from dinner, then gearing up for a beer or twenty. Yoga's not my thing.

TPBM is looking forward to some specialty craft brews they have been saving for an especially rough Monday.

How I wish!

Some days, TPBM needs time to unwind.