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The female word
Jan. 30th, 2007 11:27 amMore evidence that I am too geeky for my job, in a conversation from yesterday:
BossMan: (assembles his Associate Editors, Trin and Other Associate Editor) Do either of you like Lord of the Rings?
OAE: I haven't really seen it.
Trin: The books or the movies? I mean, not really.
BossMan: But are you familiar with them?
OAE: No.
Trin: Kind of? I mean, I'm not like an expert or anything...
BossMan: Do you remember David Wenham?
OAE: Who?
Trin: Oh, Faramir.
BossMan & OAE: (blink)
Trin: (hates herself)
BossMan: Okay, Trin, I want you to interview him on Thursday, and tomorrow there's a screening of 300 that you can go to.
Trin: Okay...Can I bring a friend?
BossMan: No, we're going to go together. It's in Burbank.
Trin: (Internally: Fuuuuuuuuuck!) Sure.
So I have to spend several hours in a car with my boss tonight, and the stupid screening doesn't even have the courtesy to be during work, it's after, so I'm going to miss House and Veronica Mars, and did I mention SEVERAL HOURS STUCK IN A CAR WITH MY BOSS?
Also, I can't get the new SGA to download and I hate everything.
TOTALLY UNRELATED: I'm trying to figure out if men say "Yes." I mean, regularly. I've been thinking a lot about Molly Bloom's soliloquy from the end of Ulysses, and Joyce's quote about "Yes" being "the female word." Leaving aside his rather belief that it signifies "acquiescence and the end of all resistance" (Yick—and just for the record, I think it could just as easily be an empowering statement, a statement of choosing), I'm honestly wondering if it's a word that women use more than men. (I'm not saying that's what Joyce was saying; that's just what I'm wondering.) Will you all spy on the men in your lives today? See if they say "Yes"? Actually "Yes," I think, not "Yeah," "Okay," or "Sure." Furthermore, do you say "Yes"? Not that it'll be hard to judge, now that I've made you all self-conscious or anything.
[To the few men on my flist: please share your thoughts too! That would be very interesting!]
I'll admit, I'm especially curious about this in regards to sex (how could I not be? Molly is all about sex). So much smutfic, my own definitely and so many others', has characters—guys—murmuring their litany of yeses; and I've always thought it incredibly sexy, but I'm wondering if it's at all accurate. (My limited experience says: No. How perversely appropriate.)
Annnnd...I really shouldn't be thinking about this; I'm supposed to be writing an article about the history of Cartier. But in transcribing the interview I did with the company's president, I spent a great deal of time listening to a Frenchman talk about love; forgive me if I'm a little distracted.
BossMan: (assembles his Associate Editors, Trin and Other Associate Editor) Do either of you like Lord of the Rings?
OAE: I haven't really seen it.
Trin: The books or the movies? I mean, not really.
BossMan: But are you familiar with them?
OAE: No.
Trin: Kind of? I mean, I'm not like an expert or anything...
BossMan: Do you remember David Wenham?
OAE: Who?
Trin: Oh, Faramir.
BossMan & OAE: (blink)
Trin: (hates herself)
BossMan: Okay, Trin, I want you to interview him on Thursday, and tomorrow there's a screening of 300 that you can go to.
Trin: Okay...Can I bring a friend?
BossMan: No, we're going to go together. It's in Burbank.
Trin: (Internally: Fuuuuuuuuuck!) Sure.
So I have to spend several hours in a car with my boss tonight, and the stupid screening doesn't even have the courtesy to be during work, it's after, so I'm going to miss House and Veronica Mars, and did I mention SEVERAL HOURS STUCK IN A CAR WITH MY BOSS?
Also, I can't get the new SGA to download and I hate everything.
TOTALLY UNRELATED: I'm trying to figure out if men say "Yes." I mean, regularly. I've been thinking a lot about Molly Bloom's soliloquy from the end of Ulysses, and Joyce's quote about "Yes" being "the female word." Leaving aside his rather belief that it signifies "acquiescence and the end of all resistance" (Yick—and just for the record, I think it could just as easily be an empowering statement, a statement of choosing), I'm honestly wondering if it's a word that women use more than men. (I'm not saying that's what Joyce was saying; that's just what I'm wondering.) Will you all spy on the men in your lives today? See if they say "Yes"? Actually "Yes," I think, not "Yeah," "Okay," or "Sure." Furthermore, do you say "Yes"? Not that it'll be hard to judge, now that I've made you all self-conscious or anything.
[To the few men on my flist: please share your thoughts too! That would be very interesting!]
I'll admit, I'm especially curious about this in regards to sex (how could I not be? Molly is all about sex). So much smutfic, my own definitely and so many others', has characters—guys—murmuring their litany of yeses; and I've always thought it incredibly sexy, but I'm wondering if it's at all accurate. (My limited experience says: No. How perversely appropriate.)
Annnnd...I really shouldn't be thinking about this; I'm supposed to be writing an article about the history of Cartier. But in transcribing the interview I did with the company's president, I spent a great deal of time listening to a Frenchman talk about love; forgive me if I'm a little distracted.
