Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

I did not and will not work in the yard today and will not have a cocktail tonight and for the next few days.

TPBM feels groggy.

Thank you, Alex! But I am old. I can remember when phones had rotary dials.

TPBM remembers Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year.” (For some reason, that’s playing through my mind.)

I do, but only because TPBM mentioned it.

TPBM likewise feels old and is hoping the captain will smack him or her, too. It being a favourite activity and all on the ship.

Ouch, M! Does that mean I am old too because I can also remember that kind of phone? lol

No. I have a different song in mind.

No, I don't feel old hahaha

TPBM is rushing a lot of things today.

Not quite. It's vacation. Aaah...

TPBM is about to have a movie marathon.

No, but I'm listening to a double set of Masterchef.

TPBM recently finished watching a delightful documentary movie, called The Triumph of the Wall.

No, but I'm sure it was lovely.

TPBM is getting on a plane to go to China on Friday morning.

Nope.

TPBM is listening to an odd song by Kishi Bashi.

Well, now I am.

TPBM can read multiple books at once.

I can and do. Five, right now, I think.


TPBM enjoys reading/looking at graphic novels.

No, I don't. I enjoy books that are funny, but not funny books, which I find hard to read.

TPBM keeps their own funny book using pen and paper.

No

TPBM thinks fulfilling goals is over-rated?

Yes, a bit.

TPBM wonders why their family doesn't always do what they want.

Setting and achieving goals means nothing to me, but there are people whose lives seem to be oriented around doing that. I think it’s a difference in innate disposition. Interesting, Christa!

TPBM is ready to relax!

You could say that. :P

TPBM doesn't like their local library.

Yes but can't.

TPBM is excited to finish his/her story for this week.

@Belly: Then you are so lucky. Mine just isn't...well-run.

Ha. I wish. Mine is not going so well. Something about a piano and an apple tree...

TPBM is going to write/has already written a poem this week.

Is it this week already? I haven’t yet contemplated writing a poem.

TPBM wonders how late afternoon got here accompanied by an unmowed yard.

No.

TPBM thinks that most of the TPBM questions/statements are reflections of what the person above actually feels.

No, as many are action, not feeling, related.

TPBM thinks that the TPBM (The Person Before Me) is likely a feeling type in Jung's typology.

Yes, but I don’t think the person above me is. I think TPAM is an INTP.

I just forgot to include does anyway, I found a test based on Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality online and took it but even without taking the test, yes, slight.

TPBM likes taking personality type tests.

Oh, yes! (How did you type, Leslie? ENFJ?)

TPBM loves looking at art supplies.

ISFP, what is N?

I love buying art supplies.

TPBM is good at following cooking instructions.

l do, but haven't bought anything art related in far too long.

TPBM loves the smell of oil based paints.

I missed that one by a mile! You’re have the same type Buffy the Vampire Slayer does. I’m good at following cooking instructions that involve no more than preheating the oven and sticking the frozen dinner in.

TPBM is good at noticing details.

Yes, but only after I've noticed them.

TPBM has realized that what they don't notice doesn't really exist.

Hmmmmm...I'm not sure, existence is not entirely dependent on what I do or don't notice.

TPBM is not watching game 7.

game 7? guess not.

TPBM is thinking of investing in a 3D printer.

Not at this time. I don't have anything I want to build, except my vocabulary and my library.

TPBM will be buying a used book Friday.

@Zack - I meant NBA Finals, sorry, this colds is racking my head lol

I'm buying a textbook for my son, so no, I'm not buying a used book. Thanks for reminding me though, I have forgotten all about it.

TPBM likes jigsaw puzzles.

No. In general, puzzles hold no attraction for me.

TPBM finds that imagination is most fertile, the surgical blade of revision most keen, when one first wakes up.

(To Guy’s #3800: Yes! There’s a relief in knowing that the awful things reported in news I disdain to watch have never happened.)

more of not getting out of bed

TPBM is interested in learning how to paint using acrylic.

I have dabbled at daubing dabs of plastic, but discovered something best left to others.

TPBM has an unused set of calligraphy pens in their home.

No. I would prefer to paint a picture of a goat.

TPBM finds the Laurie Anderson song Speechless (the Eagle and the Weasel) to be fascinating and peculiar, but engaging.

For some time, the GR program hasn’t been taking me to the newest post on this thread. It takes to me to a couple of pages from the end. This time, it landed on a reply made by Kat, in #3668:

“I don’t have an old rubber chicken, sooooooo...”

Out of context, it struck me as funny and memorable, and I sat here laughing about it. I could imagine it as the pirate ship’s motto, sewn into a banner.

Oh, well. No, I don’t listen to music much anymore.

TPBM remembers the old Vampirella comics.

I do. I had several of them, purchased with hard earned allowance money from the local used book store.

TPBM is watching a TV show with Jane Fonda in it.

No. Is she doing calisthenics or protesting foreign wars?

TPBM suffered through On Golden Pond.

not yet M, thankfully.

TPBM recycles unworthy hardback reads as coasters for nightcaps?

M wrote: "No. Is she doing calisthenics or protesting foreign wars?

..."
LOL. No. It's a contemporary and reasonably good criticism of the quality of what passes for news in our age. It's an HBO series called The Newsroom. Fonda plays a ruthless capitalist who owns the station.

Belly wrote: "M wrote: "For some time, the GR program hasn’t been taking me to the newest post on this thread. It takes to me to a couple of pages from the end."

Yeah, it's been doing the same thing for me, too..."

Yeah, it's been doing the same thing for me, too. And on one or two other threads as well.

No. I have no space to use hard covered books for anything except landfill. Although some will go into the recycle bin.

Being conscious of the environmental costs of using paper books, TPBM is still struggling to like using e.books.

Oh, yes! Books have a fascination.

TPBM has lots of bookcases.

I wish I knew more people who read critically. I consider reading for escape a mindless activity, an equivalent of watching television.

TPBM likes to go to library sales.

I used to, but the last few have left me sad at what passes for books these days.

TPBM would enjoy critical arguments about books more if the other people would be able to not take them as personal attacks.

I do. I'd try to describe it, but its obscurity makes that nigh impossible.

TPBM has struggled to find his/her own unique creative expression without fully grasping what is unique within him/her self.

No. I long ago realized that what’s unique about me (if anything is) remains unavailable to my conscious mind, so my approach has been more along the lines of trying to stay out of its way, on the off chance that it might seek to express itself.

TPBM is having a lazy weekend.

LOL! Not at all. And I am still behind what I ostensibly really wanted to do before the weekend got started.

TPBM has spent much of the morning reading and writing and considering letters.

Someone who shall remain unnamed is feeling very guilty about that.

TPBM should be out working in the yard but is hoping it will rain.

No. The rain is immanent here, but I have no yard to mow or maintain.

TPBM has been scheduled to clean and bake and cook, but has been distracted by the WSS.