Flail~~

[halfshellvenus]

Gads, my showings in the LJ Idol Poll sure aren't looking good. We're dropping the bottom 7 this week, and I'm right in that "vaguely-tied-with 15-other-people" space. Nooooo!

About to go bicycling, and I should mention that my run yesterday was unexpectedly crappy. I think I made 3 miles of the 4, with a lot of stops near the end, because-get

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[halfshellvenus]

I have about the same # of comments as last week, but less than 1/2 the votes. It's one of the risky aspects of satire-- do people GET that it's satire, or are they just offended?

Must feel funny (and unfair!) to feel dehydrated in the winter. The high desert is its own beast, though. All of the misery of both winter AND summer! Though I could say the same of Illinois, and it's humid there. :O

[java_fiend]

Just cast my votes and you look to be in a pretty good spot! Good luck!

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you, and I hope it stays that way!

Say, did you read last week's story? It was a horror-fic!

(you've corrupted me, I know it)

[java_fiend]

Oh? Horror? I must go and see! I corrupt nobody. That is a pre-existing condition!

[halfshellvenus]

:D Your insurance-company-speak only makes me more suspicious!

[muchtooarrogant]

Now see there, you made it through another week on LJI. *grin*

I miss the days of riding my bike when I was a kid. I really had to be on a gravel road in order to do it--the high contrast in-between the road and the grass--but it was such a free feeling.

Dan

[halfshellvenus]

Thank goodness! I didn't think we'd be cutting people from Idol in such huge numbers, especially with such a small group at the start!

I'm glad you had a period where you could ride a bike. I'd miss it too, but nice to remember what it was like.

Maybe Lizbeth would be up for getting a tandem? Though she'd have to be in front, and it's harder to control... but she could bulk up her arms!

[embroiderama]

Those bridges--yeah, they look beautiful but terrifying. Things like that, I just freeze and physically cannot do it. When I went to Russia when I was 16, one of the places we went to was this massive gorge or something that was in a cave--not sure exactly. But there was a narrow bridge that went across it, and though it had sides so there was no way to fall I just stood frozen at the beginning of it and had to go around and meet the group at the end. I can only imagine trying to do it now considering that my fear of heights isn't much decreased and now I do have a bit of vertigo. YIKES, just thinking about it gives me the willies.

[halfshellvenus]

Haha-- I love the use of that icon with this whole topic!

My limit is about 1 to 1 1/2 feet above ground. Any more than that, and I can't maintain my balance at all. And much more than that, and it's just scary. We had one of those office "team-building" courses that Dilbert calls "Ropes and Trees." I knew that might not go well, but still made the attempt. Whatever the exercise was that involved climbing a tree before walking across a rope-bridge tightrope, well... I got about six feet up the tree, and that was it. Even on a good ladder, that's where the trouble starts. I had to back down the ladder and bail!

Clex has this problem too, I know. Both of us have had encounters with mesh flooring or stairs, where even with handrails and stuff... you can see all the way down, and it's just unnerving. Jittery legs and rising panic start up before you even realize what's happening. o_O

[embroiderama]

Clex has this problem too, I know. Both of us have had encounters with mesh flooring or stairs, where even with handrails and stuff... you can see all the way down, and it's just unnerving. Jittery legs and rising panic start up before you even realize what's happening. o_OOh god, yeah. Where I work, we store lots and lots of boxes, and we have steel racking that's in three levels, like floors. Each level has steel mesh flooring so that light can come through. Our guys walk around on it all day, and I understand that it's safe, but I can't do it. Several years ago, an urgent request came in from a customer and I was the only person here. I was like, "I can do this! I can pull this file!" So I went out to the warehouse, marched up the stairs to the second level, and then looked at where I needed to go--a few aisles down, which involved walking along the side of the racking where only [several feet of flooring and] little chains were between me and the concrete floor twenty feet below. I totally panicked, froze, heart racing. It took

[halfshellvenus]

One day I want to write a SPN story that uses stairs as a horror device.

YAWNING stairs, waiting to devour you. And they do. :O

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