valentine's day and a poll

[regala_electra]

Oh my goodness, romanyg, you are an absolute dear. Thank you so much for the virtual gifts! I was honestly shocked and so very, very pleased!

I used to pronounce Valentine's Day valentime's day because my NY accent and tendency to fast-talk when excited causes me to soften some nouns while completely dropping others.

Why am I telling you this? Because this time, I'm actually have a not-so-crappy Valentine's Day. Only had to deliver two bouqets of flowers to fellow coworkers today, perhaps the snow waylaid other planned flower deliveries? Whatever, it does a single girl good. No bitterness for me, which is surprising.

It's always weird signing for flowers for other people.

HOWEVER, my flist has been QUITE AWESOME and that has cheered me up. Even in the wake of the horrors of driving on icy, icy roads, the shock at realizing that I wore my cranberry red top at work (TOTALLY unintentional), and my regret at fangirling about Devil in the White City.

Short story boring: one of my coworkers is interested in reading it and I got all squeetastic and may have been a little too descriptive in discussing H. H. Holmes's serial killings during the Chicago World's Fair. Lot of fast talking and being a bit too animated about how he used to gas his victims.

This is almost as bad as geeking out over Farscape to another coworker, where I attempted to deliver a Scorpius line of dialogue in Wayne Pygram's distinctive diction. (He plays against punctuation, if you don't know. Ben Browder revealed that during one of the Farscape commentaries.)

You know what? I really should just stick to commenting on the weather to my coworkers. I'm slowly starting to paint a disturbing picture to them.

Note to self: be normal.

Heh. That ain't likely. Oh well.

Instead, I offer a poll:

[Poll #927570]

Comments

[embroiderama]

My boss, who is from rural Virginia and certainly doesn't have a NY accent, says "Valentimes," and it makes me a little crazy because I desperately want to ask her if she actually thinks that's what it is, or if she just likes saying it that way. Too curious for my own good!

I work in a very small office, so signing for flowers is extremely rare, but OTOH everyone I work with knows I'm a freak. Yesterday, I was chekcing my mail when I got to work and started grinning from something I read, and one of the guys walked by and looked at me like I was 100% out of my gourd and explained that "Normal people do not look at their computers like that." LOL

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

I'm front desk, so yeah, I sign for flowers and many other things.

Oh, man, I've cracked smiles while checking my email at work or worse, I was handwriting something for a SPN fic (Dean/OFC) and I was in the middle of writing a dirty line when I was intercommed by my boss and I let a giggle slip. *headdesk* Whoops.

[livii.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I wore cherry red today without thinking about it either! I don't do Valentine's (even as a married woman, I think it's rubbish) and I was so embarrassed.

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

I mean, I wore it because it's really comfortable and duh, that was ten kinds of silly.

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

He should make fun of Peter AND punch Peter in the face AND throw him off a building. Oh, wait. ALREADY CANON. Invisible Claude is the Best Hero Ever. I really, really want to see your fic about him. *g*

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

Invisible Claude really has done like the most amazing things. Stop time? Paint the future? FLY? Whatever. Claude's so crazy, he thinks a good lesson ends with someone getting brutally killed. If you can repair yourself after that? You get a B- (he deducts for Emo Hair).

HE MADE FUN OF PETER'S HAIR. Brilliant.

My fic about him involves him stealing comics books and communing with pigeons. I shall have to bring in Peter though. For mocking purposes only.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Yes. Claude is a flint-hearted man, and I love it.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

By the way, I'm pretty sure he was expecting Peter to fly, not crash and then heal.

[nekare.livejournal.com]

I shall only accept if it features Claude drawing a mustache on Peter's face. *nod*

Seriously though, DOOO EEET.

[dustdaughter.livejournal.com]

Ditto what ignipes said. There will never be enough cynical Invisible!Doctor fic.

[franticjoy.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, mademoiselle!

PS- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, yes, please.

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I had a quite lovely birthday weekend.