Where the hell is my distraction?

[muckefuck]

This is what comes of relying too much on a single source for diversion. When it dries up (for whatever reason), you're left without anything to do.

I'm bored today. I didn't sleep well last night, so whenever I begin to contemplate the tedious tasks I've been putting off, my eyelids just slam shut. I know if I tried to accomplish them, I'd just have to redo much of the work later. Even reading is tiresome; one or two news articles and I find I've forgotten what I've read.

So I've been waiting for my friends to post so I can get some chat going. But here it is the middle of the afternoon and still no Monday Mini-Poll! I've posted at least four times without getting any sort of response; I'm begining to wonder if I should stop blathering about my tedious personal life and start ranting about political issues or something, just to get some response.

But I think instead I'll do the grown-up thing and go take a nap.

Comments

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Well, what do you want me to say? Good job serially accumulating the perfect meal by flitting hither and yon collecting tidbits of food I can’t even pronounce from the seemingly endless number of great restaurants in your exciting North Side neigborhood? Gee, you and Wil and Erin and Jim and all of your other fancy-pants North Side friends seem to be having a fantabulous time without me like every single goddamm day? I’m JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS. Everybody else who’s been withholding comment due to extreme resentful JEALOUSY of Da’s fancy-free urban hipster gay man lifestyle, raise your hands!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's exactly what I want to hear you say. Thanks!

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOU!!!

[rollick.livejournal.com]

You have cleverly validated his positive self-image without being obvious about it! Go you! I am all jealous of your ability, and not of his go-go lifestyle.

I am, however, envious of his unflagging extroversion. I've been in a social funk for days now and not really wanting to post, or converse, or otherwise socialize. Or even post a Monday Mini-Poll, which I admit I did more out of a sense of duty than a burning interest in the answers. Sigh.

Rollick's Social Funk As It Affects Ken

[(Anonymous)]

Well, hopefully you'll be more jazzy-feeling come New Years. (Or by the Leona's Meetup, if mollpeartree and I venture forthward.) More jazz, less funk -- a recipe for emotional states, not CD playlists.

Re: Rollick's Social Funk As It Affects Ken

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Bring In Da Noise, Kick Out Da Funk…

I was actually feeling pretty antisocial as of the time of welcomerain's party. Didn't keep me from going, just kept me from being bouncy and forward. Same will apply to the Leona's Meetup. I won't spend a week trying to get people there and then blow it off myself, I may just not be screamingly energetic in people's faces.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Gee, you and Wil and Erin and Jim and all of your other fancy-pants North Side friends seem to be having a fantabulous time without me like every single goddamm day?

Sing it, sister!

I’m JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS. Everybody else who’s been withholding comment due to extreme resentful JEALOUSY of Da’s fancy-free urban hipster gay man lifestyle, raise your hands!

(Raises hand) Of course, it doesn't help that when we try to emulate muckefuck by patronizing a randomly selected Korean hole-in-the-wall patronized mostly by a non-English-speaking clientele, we wind up with mild food poisoning. (At least I only felt mildly queasy for an hour or so. Poor prilicla was down for two days.) Evidently some people can follow serendipity with more success than others can. :-)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

lhn, as the closest thing to a legal expert in my life, should I be including disclaimers in my entries?

Sympathy about the food poisoning. As a public service, you should name and shame the restaurant so we can all avoid it in future.

[prilicla.livejournal.com]

Well, in fairness, we don't really know that the Korean buffet was responsible for the food poisoning, though it seems like the most likely suspect. In fact, I would have strongly suspected my aunt's Thanksgiving turkey, but I believe food poisoning usually takes less than 48 hours to hit. I like spending Thanksgiving with my extended family (though I feel bad about dragging poor lhn into the echo chamber of the crazy screaming deaf people), but a lot of my aunts seem to have a problem with the concept of cooking the turkey until it isn't pink anymore. I think they were traumatized by too many dried-out turkeys and are determined not to repeat that mistake.

I don't actually remember the name of the restaurant, though lhn may. Luckily, it's in Las Vegas, so it should be pretty easy for most Chicagoans to avoid, even without our help.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Not a lot of danger of hitting it by accident, since it's in Las Vegas, but it's called Jong Ga. It's a shame, since the food was rather tasty and we were very proud of ourselves for picking a restaurant more or less at random-- especially one which had only Korean-language newspapers to read and where the waiter was obviously surprised to see out-of-towners, despite it's being about a mile from the Strip. (But then, you know what pride goeth before.) It's part of what's essentially a strip mall of Asian restaurants and stores that seem to cater primarily to Vegas's many Asian casino workers. (We'd gone there seeking a restaurant that our guidebook had recommended, which we'd been unable to find. Of course, we saw it immediately on emerging from Jong Ga.) If by some chance you're ever in Las Vegas, you'll probably want to go there, even if you avoid this particular restaurant.

To be entirely fair, of course, we can't be sure that the restaurant was the culprit. But it seems the way to bet; while prilicla is pretty sensitive to stomach complaints, I'm very rarely queasy after a meal, and I commented on it first as we were walking to the car.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I thought food poisoning normally had a very delayed onset. People have always warned me not to look to the meal I just ate when trying to pinpoint its source. If you were poisoned before you went there, then eating completely safe food would still upset your stomach.

In any case, our crowd goes to Vegas often enough that I think the warning will be valuable. I hope the illness didn't tube your entire vacation there. (Could've been worse; you could've gone on a cruise!)