Welcome to the pity party. Tell me what to say.

I feel that I've been neglecting this space, but I can think of nothing to say at the moment that is not self-pitying, whiny, self-indulgent, or generally ill-tempered (much like this post, if I can even call it one. Isn't that a great rhetorical technique? I'm going to tell you how self-pitying, whiny, and self-indulgent I feel by telling you I'm not going to write about it? A master wordsmith, that's me). It's not that anything so terribly bad is happening; it's more what's not happening that's frustrating.

And in that category I would include snow days. We have not had any snow days, and darn it, I've moved back to the land of snow! I deserve a good blizzard that shuts everything down for 24 hours, don't you think? Okay, I probably don't deserve one, but man, that sounds good just about now.

So, feel free to inspire me. Topics are welcome in the comments. Or I might be reduced to telling you how much I wish my fellow building dwellers would not let their dogs crap on the paved patio out back, or at least that they'd clean up after them. And no one wants that.

Comments

[Another Damned Medievalist]

Wow -- from soap to dog crap! Usually it's the other way around! I suggest cat blogging.

[Anastasia]

Hi.

[maggiemay]

Um, NK? What is a blog *for* if not for self-indulgent, whiny, and generally ill-tempered rants? I mean really, would blogs be any fun at all if we were all happy, healthy and smugly self-satisfied all the time? I think not. Therefore, I hereby give you permission to be as whiny as you wanna be. It's your party, baby.

[helenesch]

But at least you posted a really cute picture! Really, I was amused by it...

I live in a land of snow, and I've never had a single snow day in the 7.5 years I've taught here! The local schools have been closed 3 days of out the past 12, but us... never.

[Dr. Moonbeam]

Love the teeny tiny violin picture. *g*

Um, topics. Cats? Plants? Career shifts? Shoes? Scrabble? Medievalism?

[Sisyphus]

I love that picture. I may have to steal it at some point.

And if you don't have any post-worthy rants or whines, you could make up imaginary ones and entertain us all with them. After all, blogs are a sort of fiction.

Oooh (inspiring myself) ... how bout a wishlist? Blogs are good for fantasizing and imagining various things as well.

[Profane]

We were off the friday before, and it looks like we will be gifted another tomorrow since it is currently freezing rain on top of 4 inches of snow. WHOOT! I think. . . The students in my Medieval Lit class would, at least, be pleased since it would give them an extra two days to finish their take home exam.

[Profane]

We were off the friday before, and it looks like we will be gifted another tomorrow since it is currently freezing rain on top of 4 inches of snow. WHOOT! I think. . . The students in my Medieval Lit class would, at least, be pleased since it would give them an extra two days to finish their take home exam.

[meansomething]

February seems like a great month for thinking about making some wonderful plan for the summer--travel, maybe, or reading or another project. What's yours? Or, even better, if you had two weeks and enough dough to go somewhere you've always wanted to visit, just for the fun and interest of it, where would that be?

[sharon]

In my last house there wasn't a proper fence to the back garden and for a while I had a neighbour who let his dog run around and crap everywhere without ever cleaning it up. It drove me nuts, especially when I'd nearly step in a steaming pile just outside the back door. So I really understand how you feel on that one.

(I got some "Get Off" spray in the end. It seemed to work. But I suppose that isn't really an option with the kind of shared space you're talking about.)

[wolfa]

Why not ignore the same thing I'm ignoring: blogging regularly each titled one from a list. (I'm doing seas of the moon, sort of.)

You're also welcome to some of our snow. They claim we got 15cm with another 5 coming, but I think it'll be more like 10 total -- there's no 15 cm of snow on the unplowed sidewalks.

[Pilgrim/Heretic]

I want you to blog about how you gathered up a few days' worth of neighbor's dog crap, and left it outside of neighbor's door. :)

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Ooh, developments on the dog crap front! Someone just stopped to talk to my across-the-hall neighbor, who has a dog, to tell her that the management company is going to offer a REWARD to anyone who can tell them who is actually letting their dog crap back there. The guy was saying, "Since you have a dog, we thought if you see who's doing it when you take your dog in and out, you could tell us." What a classic passive-aggressive move! The woman in question was VERY vague in her answers (ex: Him: "Because there's dog crap all over the patio and it's disgusting." Her: "Oh, uh-huh?" Him: "And it's frozen so you can't even pick it up." Her: "Really. Wow."), and she pointed out that the woman whose apartment backs onto the patio has a dog. This made me laugh, though, because the back-apartment woman has a pug, and the woman across from me has a lab - and the, um, decorations in the patio are more substantial than I think is likely from a little pug! (There are I think a couple more dogs in the building, though.)

I mean, I love dogs, but I would NEVER let them crap back there! It's not like real yard - it's a 15-20 sq. ft. mostly paved fenced-in patio (with patio furniture and grill)! Yuck.

And thank you for the support and suggestions, all (isn't that an awesome picture? Wish it were mine - the joys of stealing from the internet...). Wolfa, the list of seas of the moon is totally intriguing. I may have to steal that at some point... and now I have some other ideas to go on with as well!

[Fifi Bluestocking]

On the dog crap issue, I think you will enjoy this if you haven't already seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUJ4es4cYIU
From one of my favourite websites, passiveaggressivenotes.com