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[the_siobhan]

Breaktime.

This post is full of typos. No time to edit right now.

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Now I know the fracture point of a Siobhan. It's 12 days of 18 hours administered consecutively. I got sick like you would not believe. It went away after 48 hours of solid sleep.

Somebody mentioned vitamins to me the other day, and I'm thinking that's a damn good idea. I feel like I'm getting sick a lot lately -- really bad at the tail end of Whitby, then again in December, then this past week. (It was a week ago, wasn't it? I tend to lose track of time...)

People on my friends list who suffer from chronic illness that causes them to get sick a lot will probably chuck something at my head right about now, but seriously. This is a lot for me. I'm normally disgustingly healthy.

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The other day I was taling to the_axel about a theory that had been posited by somebody on my friends list. Said friendperson had been talking about how to rate your own attractiveness objectively, and proposed that you could do it by measuring the attractiveness of your partners, since people rarely date either "up" or "down" on the hawt scale.

the_axel theorized that since people might have oddball tastes or have esteem issues, a far better method is to look at the attractiveness quotient (however you measure such a thing) of their other relationships - from fuckbuddies to long-term partners.

It's weird, I keep trying to apply that to myself and my brain keeps sliding off it. Axe has had some pretty good-looking women in his time, and I just don't seem to be capable of thinking of myself that way.

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I've long had a theory that most people really suck at connecting actions with consequences. I don't think I'm particularily clever, but I have really really good pattern matching. Something you get from growing up surrounded by violence - you look for clues in everything.

So when I have to deal with people who do {A}ction and it causes {B}ad Consequence, I assume that since they made a mistake with such obvious repercusions, that they know they made a mistake and will avoid doing it again.

Except it rarely happens that way.

Lately it's happened on more than one occasion that I've been the person who has had to take responsability for cleaning up {B} - not a situation that's going to make me happy to start with, but you know, it was a mistake and I don't grouse at people for making the occasional mistake. And then I find out afterwards that I'm getting critisized for my handling {B} by the very person who caused {B} by doing {A} in the first place.

So what do I do?

Start being a lot more aggressive telling people exactly when they fuck up, I guess.

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I've been running around the house for the last two days with the phone in my pocket and a mic/earphone set stuck to the side of my head. I look like a complete dork, but what a great idea. I can talk to people while I'm typing, looking things up, or more commonly, digging through the Massive Crap Pile on my desk, searching for that one really important piece of paper that I need. Genius.

Work is moving ohmygod speed. I have looming fucking deadlines crawling all over the house. The little ones nip at my ankles while I'm stuffing padding material into boxes, the big ones flash red eyes at me in the dark and drag their claws across the floors when I'm lying awake at night.

Yes, all my monsters have teeth. Even the ones that don't.

It feels fantastic. Things are frighteningly well, they are going frighteningly fast and I'm running to keep up, I'm running on caffeine and adrenaline, I'm running through the wilderness with blood on my breath.

World Domination is no longer possible, it is inevitable.

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Coda. Things to do.

Comments

[mraustin.livejournal.com]

can i have dibs on madagascar and the french riviera? of course we'd tithe appropriately to the supreme leader's treasuries.

[snickerpuss.livejournal.com]

"I just don't seem to be capable of thinking of myself that way."

What the hell? You're friggin' scrumptious.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Axe has had some pretty good-looking women in his time

I think you're making a big mistake there. It's not just about looks, and especially so as far as women are concerned. Which is not to say that you're ugly - I don't know what you look like so I don't know. But does it matter - it's the end result that counts, no?

I notice that at the beginning of the paragraph you simply state "attractiveness" and not "physical attractiveness".

I've dated a, ah, how can I put this.... range. I don't consider myself to be good looking, but experience suggests that a significant minority of good-looking women find me attractive. However, I've also noticed that they tend to be attracted to me after they've gotten to know me a little (and less atracted to me after they've gotten to know me a lot - but that's an entire other story).

[lazrus-armagedn.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you don't wanna get transgendered and marry me?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was talking about the physical attractiveness aspect.

I'm well aware of how much attractiveness is influenced by the person inside -- I can literally watch people get uglier in front of my eyes when I get know them and find out they're an asshole -- but the theory I'm talking about dealt solely with looks.

(For the record, I do think of myself as moderately attractive - but only to people who know me.)

[disastrid.livejournal.com]

World Domination is no longer possible, it is inevitable.

please give me a cushy executive job (like minister of pudding or something) so i can stop working like a retard.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Head Genius

Erm, no

[lazrus-armagedn.livejournal.com]

I think I'd like that position ... even if I have to start as Minster of IntSec and root out all traitors on the way to attaining the position first

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

the_axel theorized that since people might have oddball tastes or have esteem issues, a far better method is to look at the attractiveness quotient (however you measure such a thing) of their other relationships - from fuckbuddies to long-term partners.

Hmm. According to this metric (if I take an average), I am a slender, well-muscled Asian man with long hair.

[verminefasciste.livejournal.com]

the_axel theorized that since people might have oddball tastes or have esteem issues, a far better method is to look at the attractiveness quotient (however you measure such a thing) of their other relationships - from fuckbuddies to long-term partners.

I'm not sure I follow. Almost every single one of my hook-ups (long-term or "other") have noses that are disproportionately large compared to the rest of their facial features. My nose is perfectly normal and, dare I say, almost button-like. Also, the boyses I choose tend to be very strange looking, definitely not classically handsome. (Classic handsomeness, in fact, is one of my top turn-offs.) But I am not strange looking. I think that I have an incredibly normal, plain, boring, and bland face. I always kind of figured that I choose who I do because a) I find myself boring, looks-wise, and having somebody who is interesting to look at "balances me out", and b) I came of age with Trent Reznor posters plastered all over my wall and Judd Nelson all over my TV screen. Hence, big nose fetish.

Unless, of course, Herr Axel was talking about other sorts of attractiveness, in which case I will agree: like my chosen mates, I too appear to be perfectly peachy until you find my fatal flaw.

But I guess we all have one of those, now don't we.

[the_axel]

You missed the my point.

Sio was talking about studies that theorize/demonstrate that people are attracted to people who are approximately as attractive as they are [1].

However, I find that unlikely (as stated above), however I do believe that you can judge how attractive you are by comparing who the people that you hook up with also hook up with.

&, of course, by looking at the people who the people you are hooking up with are not hooking up with (but practically could) for counterbalance.

[1] Studies on comparative attractiveness show a fairly consistent opinion across broad ranges of people.

[ferretboi.livejournal.com]

I have to say regarding people and consequences I have to whole heartedly agree. People just don't clue in and frankly all you can do is be more up front with telling them when they've done wrong and not nesicarily be nice about it. I know I've had to do that more then once in the last little while. And if people wont own up or keep playing games or wont fix it fuck them and fuck the horse they rode in on. My 2 bits at least.

(From the guy who's taken many {a}ctions that have done many {b}ad things and has learnt his lesson the hard way)

[artifx.livejournal.com]

Start being a lot more aggressive telling people exactly when they fuck up, I guess.

i found it very hard to get into the habit of letting people know when they fuck up, although i seem to end up on cleanup crew on a regular basis. but once you're in the habit... :>

World Domination is no longer possible, it is inevitable.

i thought it was always inevitable?

cheers!
m.