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hypatia42 ([personal profile] hypatia42) wrote2008-06-24 01:15 am

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Sweet sweet Mary J. Thank you for keeping my company while I stayed awake typing nonsense into sensefullness. Still despite its sense it has no meaning. Thus the illusion of making sense.

"Oh sweet thing. Don't you know you're my everything."

[livejournal.com profile] dawningday gave me the "Oh please" look the other day when I told him that I am not sued to people flirting with me because it just doesn't happen all that often. He disagrees. I am apparently using my scale of flirting as a scale for others. He says that a guy getting up the nerve to smile at a girl counts as flirting. This makes my head hurt. I smile at most everyone that I make eye contact with. Does this mean that I'm flirting with *everyone*? I find this hard to believe. Urg.

Goodbye my lover
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won
So I took what's mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
It may be over but it won't stop there
I am here for you if you'd only care
You touched my heart, you touched my soul
You changed my life and all my goals
And love is blind and that I knew when
My heart was blinded by you
I've kissed your lips and held your hand
Shared your dreams and shared your bed
I know you well, I know your smell

I've been addicted to you

[x2]
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

I am a dreamer and when I wake
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take
And as you move on, remember me
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile

I've watched you sleeping for a while
I'd be the father of your child
I'd spend a lifetime with you
I know your fears and you know mine
We've had our doubts but now we're fine
And I love you, I swear that's true
I cannot live without you

[x2]
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

And I still hold your hand in mine
In mine when I'm asleep
And I will bare my soul in time
When I'm kneeling at your feet

[x2]
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow

James Blunt
Back to Bedlam album

I'm hoping the act of typing these words out will let me process through some of the grief inherent in this song for me. I think the underlined part is the hardest.

Melancholy this evening. Morning rather. Ghosts of the past haunt me. *sigh* Perhaps it is time to hold and be held. The Honey is home this week. This is good.

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. Let's make a scale!

Generic Friendly (smiling, etc) > Being Friendly > Flirting > Flirting with Intent

[identity profile] hypatia42.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I can get behind this scale. Think we can get the LPB to adopt this as cannon?

I think teasing is on another scale entirely. Probably the poking at people scale.

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Or a midway between flirting and w/intent! Teasing is like flirting with intent, without the intent. It's sometimes confusing, if the intention behind the teasing isn't understood.

Generic Friendly (smiling, etc) > Being Friendly > Flirting > Teasing > Flirting with Intent

[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we may have a two-axis problem here.
Polite (work environment decorum) > Generic Friendly > Being Friendly > Flirting > Flirting with Intent
and
Serious > Comical > Snarky > Snide > Sarcastic > Mean > Cruel

where "Teasing" is the intersection of Flirting and Comical or possibly Snarky.

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, if this is a two axis problem (which I agree with), the Serious>Cruel scale can intersect almost anywhere on the flirting scale.

[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it can intersect almost anywhere. I'm suggested that "Teasing" is a named intersection, á là the Origin of a Cartesian coordinate system.

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Teasing" being a named intersection of comical and the flirting scale?

[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, instead of "Origin = (0,0)", we have "Teasing = (Flirting, [Comical+Snarky]/2)"

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I might call that Teasing1, whereas "Teasing2 = (Flirting, [Comical+Serious]/2)".

Wow, we're geeks. But it sure makes sense.

[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
hmmm... sounds like Teasing1 = "Cold Tease" and Teasing2 = "Hot Tease".
...
Yes, we are, but that's a good thing, right?

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Coordinates accepted, cold vs hot, definitely.

Yes, we are, and that's definitely a good thing.

Oh, and hypatia's LJ comments = officially hijacked.

[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
5t34l 4 t3h winz0rz! R0XX!

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it bad that it only took me a couple seconds to understand that?

[identity profile] catpaw67.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You people are so totally geeky, I can't stand it. OK, I can stand it. OK, I kind of like it. That's as far as I'm going, though. Although I'd really like to stay and flirt. ;-)

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if you're going stay, perhaps you'd like to rate the current flirting impulse on our two axis scale? ;-)

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Here we have this handy graph...

Axis of Evil?
Edited 2008-06-24 16:51 (UTC)

[identity profile] catpaw67.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG. Just place me somewhere around snide and flirting, thanks very much.

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[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
oh do join in; I always need more people to ... Uhhmmm ... Flirt with. By geeking.

[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
nah. It speaks to a flexibilty of thinking and high spatial and linguistic 5|

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
ok, you lost me on "5|"

[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
5|<!llz, that is [as I show clumsiness in my own HTML skills]

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
ahh, I get that now.

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and if you didn't see it, check out Cat's comment to see my new graph.

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[identity profile] siriciryon.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
e.g., political humor is intersections of Polite with Sarcastic to Mean, typically.

[identity profile] eolas16.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Good call.