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Petra

I just introduced Best Friend to TVTropes. Her response:

I hope imps from Hell escape and torment your soul.

This is just one day after I sent her a Pinterest invite. I'm lucky she loves me.

Petra

Yay, it's Brain! Speaking of college football... how do we feel about the bowl matchups? As an SEC girl, I can't help but be happy that we're going to be getting the title this year... but it also seems really boring. It also has the potential to really stir things up. If LSU loses the BCS, then the...

Petra

It's really the wet, smacking noises that nauseate me. But now that you've put the Kit-Kat commercial on my radar, that'll probably set me off too.

Thanks.

Petra

I'm re-reading Songmaster, but I'm also in the middle of Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken as well as some book I downloaded from Kindle for $.99 called Containment, by Christian Cantrell.

It's very rare that I just read one book at a time.

IT'S LIKE CHANNEL SURFING FOR MY MIND

Petra

I'm Not Gonna Call You, by The Films. It's a ballad about a guy who likes showing up at a girl's house for "quality time" but doesn't respect her enough to call her. I find it wryly amusing, since I dated "that guy." But I'm not gonna call you/ I'm not gonna write/ But I'll show ...

Petra

Well damn, I'm late to the bandwagon on this one.

Short resume: I write well, I research well, I edit very well, and I was rather good at public speaking back in the day. I'll do any writing, editing, researching or podcast-recording you guys need.

Petra

Guilty Pleasure: Eating Frank's Red Hot Wing Sauce straight out of a spoon. I call it "soup."

Irrational Irritation: Mouth noises. People on TV kissing or chewing loudly... ugh. I have to mute the TV. I think it has to do something with the lips...

Petra

Anyone a college football fan around here? I would check the past 17 pages, but that's a lot of work. I'm an SEC girl, Florida Gators all the way. Otherwise, it's Redskins football (ouch) and Capitals hockey. I'm also required to cheer for the Canucks, per my relationship agreement with Boyfriend.

Petra

As a very smart person who recently gained 30 pounds and then lost 20, trust me when I say looks matter. My bosses are taking me more seriously, more people are willing to ask me to dance at swing dances, and my friends don't feel so self-conscious around me. I'm sure most of it is the change in my ...

Petra

Why would you do this to me. I never used to be one of those wedding people, and all of a sudden I find myself addicted. Like, 24-hour marathons of David Tutera addicted.

Must. Read. Entire. Thread.

Petra

Luet, I HATE mice. I had an infestation last winter... killed at least 15 of them in my studio apartment. I almost had to move. They freak me out so much, and they smell SO bad when they die in inconvenient places.

Petra

Farts.

You know, I love having Boyfriend visit... and I appreciate his doing the dishes...

But he knows it's a small kitchen! You can't fart in small spaces!

Petra

Dear you, Don't act surprised that I'm freelancing. If you take a writer and make her answer your phones and run your schedule, she's going to look elsewhere for stuff to do. That being said, I like it here. So stop worrying that I'm leaving. I'm just supplementing my life, financially and intellect...

Petra

Everyone knows the biased stuff is the good stuff.

Petra

I tried Googling this earlier but either was too lazy or too inept to figure it out... I can't remember which...

What does the "4-Hour" part of it mean?

Petra

Living in DC! It's fun to be so nonchalant about living here that "I got stuck behind a motorcade" is a legit excuse for being late to work. The fact that Pweb is still going strong after all these years. Frank's Red Hot. I love Frank's Red Hot so much. Bourbon. I have a massive chest cold...

Petra

Refreshing Limeaid! Well, for the basics... last I logged on, I was probably still in undergrad in Florida. Since then I've graduated and moved to Washington, DC for no justifiable reason. Just packed up one day and left. Got a job with an online news group as an assistant, which was so horrific I g...

Petra

Oooh! Rundown! Please? And I am very decidedly not married. I'm an honorary member of the Canadian Alliance, though, which I would've declared an absolute impossibility 10 years ago. If I do marry the likely candidate of the moment I'll have to join the CA permanently. Not sure how I feel about that...

Petra

Haha, I don't even know what's going on around here anymore! It's been years! Not sure I can even vaguely catch up enough to be worth my salt anymore.

Petra

I had no idea I still remembered my password for PWeb!

Petra

Honestly, it wasn't particularly good. I understand that it's Sci-Fi and the future and whatnot, but the "battle" scenes with robots and whatnot were a little farfetched when juxtaposed against the rest of the story, and the character development was lacking. I'm inclined to agree with loc...

Petra

Rockin' the Velma. It's gonna be great.

Petra

I think that, at least in Christianity, to be trapped in a childlike- or less-than-childlike consciousness automatically means that you're an innocent. (Not taking into account original sin, if you believe in it.) On the other hand, there are so many different facets of Christianity that you can't r...

Petra

I've gotten some strange taste in books lately, but here were a couple I liked: Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures --Great non-fiction about three UN peacekeepers in war zones in the 90's. Caused a bit of a stir way back when. World War Z --Oral history of the zombie wars. Nuff said. Switchi...

Petra

If it bothers you too much to read his more LDS-heavy writings, try just thinking of it as yet another story rather than a doctrine. Then again, I'm an atheist, so it isn't hard for me to suspend my disbelief.

The Genesis stories are rather good, though.

Petra

Dear Bob,

I really didn't think it was possible to be this bored. Four more hours? Really?

-Pet

Petra

Excuse me? "Give me?"

Petra

I am beyond amused. I'm writing a paper about cultural repression, Stalin and Mao and the Khmer Rouge, etc, and how people in those societies band together to carry out evil against one another, and whether the fact that this is a common response among tyrannical societies means that ordinary people...

Petra

Dear You,

I am very easily irritated when I wake up. You know this. You continue to do stuff that pisses me off. As my best friend, you should know that this is not conducive to your continued health and the grace of my friendship.

I will beat you.

-Me

Petra

And a new bicycle. Because missionaries all ride bikes, here.

Petra

Dear You,

I AM SO BORED!

I am going crazy here!!! Fix it!!! ARG!

Petra

Can anyone find a list of the 100 Banned Books of all time? I'm trying to find it, and I can only find 1990-2000. Help?

Petra

I am currently finishing: PUR4100- Public Relations Writing PHI3930- Evil (Yes, evil. It's a philosophy class.) RUT3415- Russian Fairy Tales MAN3000- Intro to Management Next semester: PUR4404C- International Public Relations MMC4200- Mass Communication Law ACG2101C- Intro to Financial Accounting RU...

Petra

Empty handle of Jack Daniels.

Petra

Dear You, Please don't be interested in me again. Please please please. I liked you so much, but I really adore my new boyfriend and you two are polar opposites. I don't know what I would do. Because my boyfriend I know will dump me eventually and hurt me, but he hasn't hurt me yet. You, on the othe...

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