Stagnant water for vampires

[lex_of_green]

So another thing I’m learning on my internship is how to read mainstream fiction. I’ve never really done that before, you know? I’ve read a lot of comics and school books and science fiction and fantasy and game books, but never normal real-world fiction like the kind you can buy in grocery stores

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[runthebear]

I'm having a similar problem. I used to have really clear cut goals-- get into to college, graduate college, find an interesting job/don't starve. Now I've done that. What now?? There must be more to life than get up, go to work, go home, eat, kill 4 hours, sleep. Lather, rinse, repeat. I need a goal. I need a muse, or a reason to do what I do. Stagnation is bad!! And ever since yesterday at the Irish Festival I've had a song about a (giant, floating) penis stuck in my head. I guess that counts, even though it's only euphemistic.

[lex_of_green]

…giant …floating …penis? Giant floating Irish penis?
Just what is this song?

[runthebear]

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/enter-the-haggis-ride-my-monster-lyrics.html

[voey]

1. Becoming a vampire lets you eat people for food! (Which is good.)
2. Penises are ridiculously funny. You ARE one of the people who got to read/listen to my Emperor Palpatine story, right?
3. Turgid is a good word.
4. If your dad decides to become a coat-hanger based Cyberman, you should persuade him that Robbie could use some immortality too.

[lex_of_green]

You are on my list of people that should be cloned and/or become immortal, but you are also on my list of people likely to build the requisite robot body. Only your robot body would be made of wicker instead of coat-hangers.
(Can you make a sith penis out of wicker?)

And I can already eat people for food.

[batmiles]

You can make a penis out of anything. If it's longer than it's wide...

[voey]

...a wicker penis...

That's easy enough. But if it were to be functional for sexual purposes (and really, what's the point of a penis that's not functional for sexual purposes? There are MUCH more interesting ways to excrete waste...) it would probably require some wire on the inside, and require a careful concentric-ring sorta construction so the outer layers of wicker can extend...

...it would probably have to be wrapped in a condom or something to avoid splinters, but it'd come pre-ribbed. An electronic Erection switch would be convenient, but I'm not very good with electronics so it'll have to be a little wheel you turn to make it unfold but OOH! I could spring-load it!

This may or may not come up (no pun intended) when I do my Independent Study Sculpture semester.

[world_rim_walke]

I'm starting to face stagnation as well. I've graduated, and now have a "job" which pays enough for me to get by. What now? Most everything that I wanted to do I've already accomplished. What's my motivation?

Ironically, I think that immortality would give me more motivation to do what I want to do. With all the time in the world, I might actually want to be able to speak every language ever spoken, just so that I can travel everywhere and talk with everyone. Acquire more skills because I'm not about to just lose everything at some point in the next hundred years when I die, because I won't die!

Penises are pretty rediculous.

[lex_of_green]

The immortality thing isn’t ironic, it’s… sort of what I was trying to get at in this post. I haven’t accomplished all my goals. Soon, I’ll have the goal of finding a job that will not destroy my soul. I don’t have the skills or credentials to get that kind of job, though, so I’ll probably flail around and stagnate looking for it.

It’s not any ol’ goal I’m looking for, it’s a goal with a path attached to it. A path I can see. It doesn’t have to be a simple path - it can have ogres and hedge mazes and things on it, but I’d like to head toward something instead of running in endless circles in the parking lot. And I’m too old to learn most of the really nifty skills.

What is your job, anyway? I’ve heard you talk about it in posts, so it’s weird that I don’t know.

[world_rim_walke]

I'm sure that most people stagnate some. Most jobs I've seen ask for experience, which I don't have, and most people won't either, even if they took internships.

I don't see a path for me either. But you're not to old to learn nifty skills. It just takes more work.

I'm doing cataloging for my father at the Forest Products lab.

[severa]

I'm always seeing that book coming through at ye olde job. The cover always makes me stop and look at it, but since the little label on the spine doesn't have the "SF" or even "M" on it (can't discredit the genre since I am currently reading a Mystery series) I never even bothered to look at the description on the cover.

But you think it should be given a go?

[lex_of_green]

I’m only halfway through so far, but it’s amusing. And short.
And sometimes the circus bosses throw old men off the moving train in the middle of the night.

Nothing in it has made me cry or squeal-and-jump-up-and-down, but it hasn’t bored me either. I’ll be better able to talk about it when I’m finished.

[lex_of_green]

I wish leprechaun was a viable career option.