The Not Happy Thread

The Rancid Peanut by Lewdog P. Abernathy. A gustatory tragedy.

 

Thanks for not calling it an erotic tragedy.

 

Hahahahaha!

 

I just saw Bobby Singer playing a cowboy in a Priceline.com commercial. Fictional television hell has just frozen over.

 

Hey, I live in the North!

 

It's wonderfully sunny outside, perfect motorcycle weather...and I'm stuck at work.

 

No, you live in a cave.

 

I've seen that soda is referred to as pop, though, just never heard a Southern Person say it.

I didn't really hear you say it, either, did I?

 

Here watch this on replay until you get off work.

 

Soda or pop is just called a fizzy drink over here.

 

Britain, right?

 

Are you trying to act confused to confuse me? I invented this game there is no way you can win!

 

No, my main point was that I had never heard a southern person say pop before, and now I had. But then I realized we are both typing on an internet forum, so I didn't really "hear" you.

 

But if I say it on the internet then I would probably say it in real life too, so ip-post-office-facto and stuff.

 

Sweet bejesus, that is some lunacy. I've seen some reckless riders, i've done sone stupid stuff but my god that's madness.

Indeed, British isles. Just off France.

 

You may be making a false assumption about the doctor's motives.

 

"Rhett! Rhett! Whatever shall I do? Wherever shall I go?"

 

Never fear, I now have Mt. Dew, the rest of my week is saved.

 

Just be careful not to inhale it.

 

That's not what the straws are for? Everyone here in Kentucky uses them for that.

 

So if you Kentucky folk drink the pop through a straw inserted into your noses, how do you eat your fried chicken? Sit on it?

 

Oh no...not 'you' Kentucky folk. No, no, no. Pop isn't what they drink up their noses.

 

I need to indulge in a rant about my book club.
I've been a part of a great book club at a local bookstore for about 8 years now. It was just perfect for me -- we read a blend of fiction and nonfiction, everyone actually read the books, we didn't read a lot of "pop" fiction or chick-lit. It was a nice, laid-back club, and coordinated by a guy who really liked reading, and was laid back, too. Every few months we'd have a voting night where people would bring books to propose we read and that night we'd vote, and the top 3, 4, or sometimes 5 vote-getters would be the selections for the next 3,4, or 5 months.

Last year, the guy had some kind of falling out with the bookstore owner, quit and was never heard from again. The bookstore decided the new coordinator would be a woman who had begun working at the bookstore, and had been a member of our club, but often didn't come because she didn't like it when we read non-fiction. That's when some things started changing.

The bookstore had an opportunity for an author visit (which bookstores do), and decided the author was visiting on our book club night, and that was going to be the selection for that month. End of story. No vote. That was it. We discussed afterward how we didn't really like this, and it would have been nice to at least be asked, and had we been asked, in all likelihood we would have voted to read the book and have the author visit. Book club coordinator said okay.

Then book club coordinator takes all of the emails of members of the group and makes them "secret." It used to be we'd very occasionally email, but it would be to a list of people to whom you could Reply to All. Now she does it as a bcc most of the time. We discussed this at our last meeting and she said ok, she'd go back to the other way. We also specifically brought up the issue of some people wanting their emails "secret" and whether anyone had asked that of her (she said no), and at the club we discussed it and no one wanted their email secret, but wanted it kept so we could reply. We also voted unanimously to vote one particular way.

Next email coordinator sends is to everyone saying there are two authors who are available to come to the bookstore, and asking if we want to read any of their books. There is little response, but the few people who do respond say that they do NOT want Author A, and author B is okay. Then coordinator goes back to the bcc style emails indicating a change in voting procedure, which is the exact opposite of what we had unanimously voted on.

Next book club, coordinator announces we are having author A come, and she's coming on the date of our May book club. And we are voting her way, not the way everyone else voted. And she's doing bcc emails because some people want their emails secret. Since nobody wanted Author A, we suggest having our book club meet the following week instead. When we leave the meeting, it's decided that we'll change the date of that meeting.

Now, I just got an email from the coordinator, informing everyone that her boss won't pay her to do the book club on the other date, so now our May book is this book by Author A that no one voted for, and author A is coming on that night, our regular book club night, and that's the May book club meeting.

UGH! I'm so frustrated at how this is all going. I'm really sad to think of the possibility (which is increasingly likely) that I'll have to give up this book club due to the aggravation and the way we're choosing books (which is lowering the quality of the books we're reading). I really liked the group and it was one of my few social things that I get to do.

Thanks to anyone who read all this. I just had to get it out. I know it's a minor thing, but I'm disappointed because book clubs are supposed to be fun, ya know?

 

I'll wait until you come out with the Cliff Notes for this post.

 

Here's the cliff notes:
I'm pissed at our Book Club coordinator. She's the most passive-aggressive person I've ever met (and I've met a few champs), and ruining my book club experience.