By Any Other Name

[plumtreeblossom]

Winston Floral delivered to the office. My boss got an enormous bouquet of pink roses from her wife.

I'm spending the evening at the gym.

:-|

Comments

[gilana]

I was thinking of going to catch a movie -- join me?

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Y'all can both catch a movie at my place if you'd like. :)

I haven't been this single on V-day since... since somewhere in my teens, I suppose. Many years ago. Although it's the details of the current situation more than any principles regarding the day that bother me. :/

[gilana]

Thanks, but I actually hate Woody Allen movies. And there are a bunch in the theaters I really want to see.

Sorry you're being bothered by it. I enjoy whining about being single on V-Day, but to be honest it doesn't really bug me that much -- except that I have a free night for once and all my friends are out with their sweeties!!!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Actually, my point was that I'm not bothered by it in particular -- I'm bothered today for basically the same reasons as last week, the week before, etc. I enjoy playing with VDay with a partner, but not having one isn't a big deal in and of itself.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'd left the office before I'd seen these. Much thanks to the both of you. But now I'm all gymified and sweaty and unfit for human contact.

Oh well, at least I had a great workout. :-) Happy V day, hotties.

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

Erm, my recollection was always that you were emphatically anti-Valentine's Day as a specific day for romantic observance; so you always told me, which is why I tended not to do things for you on V-Day when we were dating. As I recall, your distaste had to do with the commercialism and cultural pressure that the holiday embodied to you.

I freely concede that I may be misremembering details here, so feel free to correct. But I think I have the gist of it right.

p.s. That we never agreed on Valentine's Day (or as every store in Japan insists on calling it, St. Valentine's Day) doesn't make you a bad person; none of this is criticism.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I don't like it as a day of obligation in particular. I don't like it as a day to be all sweet while mostly neglecting the rest of the year. I don't like it as a way of getting people to spend lots of money they don't have on mostly empty gestures.

Generally speaking, I do not ignore V-Day entirely, but keep things I do for it inexpensive so as to not buy in. My preference is to show my love every day, and the grand gestures can be on other days. I can enjoy playing with it and being romantic (I know I've told you about a few particulars), but that's just because I really love being all romantic and schmoopy in general.

That I have a million ideas (and a few actually things) with no place to go is hardly particular to this one day, which was my point.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

GAAAAAAH!

sorry, it's not your fault. but if i see one more person be a sucker to this stupid, commercial, ARBITRARY holiday, i'm going to throw my coffee mug through a goddamn window.

[desultor.livejournal.com]

depends what you mean by being a sucker to it. i wouldn't be pissed if someone didn't get me flowers. but i wouldn't be pissed if they did, either.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yeah. For me, I sometimes get hit with the "Everybody is loved except me" bug. Not specifically on/about V Day, but occasionally all through the year. But an even worse feeling is when I've dated someone I wasn't really attracted to just so as not to be alone. That was horrible and I won't be doing it again.

Last night I thought I would have the gym basically all to myself, but it was packed. It kinda let me know that I'm not the only one.