Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
It just wouldn’t be fun without a few WTF/oops moments, right?
* The Hampton in Austin not only has no wifi, not only has just one plug in each room, not only has a password you have to enter, but then has the audacity to then change the password every couple of days. Why do you need to change the password if people have to be physically connected to your ethernet?
* Monday night I had a fragrance accident and went out over-drenched in Karma. Comments included, “What’s that hippie shit you smell like, girl?” and “You smell nice” (translation: “Holy shit, I can smell you from all the way over here”).
* At one point I got on a wild rant about a douchebag I’d met earlier. For effect, I pulled out said ‘bag’s business card, joking as I did so, “You probably know this guy.” And yes, he was totally a colleague of the nice people to whom I was talking.
* I missed Henry Jenkins‘ keynote because I was eating a lackluster veggie burger.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Michelle
March 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Ouch, the penultimate point hit me with the sting of recognition. I’ve done that many times, including bitching about my randomly-assigned college roommate to someone who turned out to be one of her best friends. Which is why I now try very very hard to not say negative things about specific people to an unknown audience. But damn it’s hard.
~ danielle
March 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
you referred to someone as a ‘douchebag’! I love it, on of my favorite ‘names’ and entirely under-used.
Dai Q
March 18th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Please tell me you saw the Wedding Proposal at the Keynote speech from the Post Secret Guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xePij4VHVhk
Ariel
March 18th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Yep, I did. Very sweet.
Dai Q
March 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Yay