curling confuses me and my team is going to be surprised

[tsuki_no_bara]

i had to be at work half an hour early yesterday because there was a breakfast meeting at eight and i was apaprently the only person who could be there to meet it. so i was sitting at reception at eight, waiting for breakfast to show up. and waiting. and waiting. and in the meantime one of the tax guys from the new york office was sitting in

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[georgiamagnolia]

I don't know much about curling but I enjoy watching it so Go You! and your story sounds groovy, I want to read it now. Mostly my writing group tried not to get snowed in for the holidays *grin* all but two of us avoided it.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'll post the story eventually. theoretically. altho if i do, i can find out how many other people think it's set in the middle east.... and curling is the only sport i can watch and actually understand, but it's also the only sport i'd ever watch that i know how to play. i don't think it's that hard to understand, but i know how it works.

[dear_tiger]

I WILL NOT! It was a great story! And now that you mentioned the off-kilter interpretation, it makes me realize that it doesn't give away too much of the you know what, as in, one cannot read the you know what you know where at time X and connect it back to this fic :D Conclusion: you should post it.

I wonder if it's just people's expectations about religion. I mean, why not Hindu for that matter? It could be Hindu. I do find it hilarious that I told you reference the Aztec more obviously and people still thought it was, WTF, the Middle East. I actually like that. She could've come from anywhere. Which fits the mystery that surrounds her.

Ahahaha, vice! Obviously someone thought you could do it. Or you just weren't there to object when they assigned the roles. Don't you feel like the unlikely hero in some sports movie (a very obscure underdog curling movie) who must rise to the occasion?

[tsuki_no_bara]

the you know what you know where at time x! you are so cute. and it wasn't people's expectations about religion, but their general preconceptions and experiences. the two women who thought it was the biblical middle east are both jewish, which is why they thought they jumped to that conclusion, and the woman who caught that there are aztecs studied that kind of thing in college. i can't remember what exactly tipped her off, but she recognized that part of the setting because she was familiar with it. you see what you know, y'know?

the final draft may not have been more specific about place and culture than the first draft. ahem.

when you sign up for the sunday league, you list the positions you'll play in order of preference, so i must have marked vice as my second choice. (it definitely wouldn't have been my first.) if i did do that, and it wasn't a mistake, i have no idea what i was thinking. and there is a curling movie! at least one! men with brooms, which i actually own but haven't yet seen. it might even be obscure

[seraphicwing]

I wish curling were more popular of a sport (here).

Or at least more popular than football...

[tsuki_no_bara]

man, me too. even during the olympics, when we can enjoy team norway's funkypants, there's no prime time coverage. hmph. it moves faster than football, too.

[eve_n_furter]

I wish there was a curling hall around here. I would love to try it sometime. Best of luck with the yelling! :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

wait, you're in norway! why aren't there more places to curl there? you have the right kind of weather! (ie, cold. :D )

[eve_n_furter]

Right?! I can't think of a good explanation, because it's a great spectator sport too and Norway has even had some good teams (all originating from the same milieu though).

[tsuki_no_bara]

and you have the men's olympic curling team and their funkypants!

[donutsweeper]

You have a soft serve ice cream machine at work?!?! o.O that is so awesome!!

(Uncharitably, I wonder if some people just don't know where the Aztec empire is or misinterpreted/conflated Aztec with Egypt? Or something? I dunno.)

[tsuki_no_bara]

we do! i think it has frozen yogurt in it now, but that's for the holidays. eventually it will go back to being ice cream again. there are some definite perks to where i work. :D

it was that the story is very vague on setting and the two women who thought "biblical middle east" are jewish and might have had biblical mythology on the brain. the one woman who caught that it was set in the aztec empire (and that there's a spanish priest eventually) studied mesoamerican cultures/history/etc in college. it's just what particular preconceptions and experiences people have.