Just a quick update – on 2nd March I posted a small story about WordShock reaching 1000 hits
Well, not even a month later, we’ve nearly reached 2000!
I have had nearly the same amount of visitors in under a month as my total since January 1st
Thanks Again For Stopping By
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So we, antitheses of the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) have realized the sun is shining. The air is hot with the body heat of a city anticipating summer. Yet we’re mostly disappointed year after year by rain. Perhaps we should start celebrating spring with as much reverence as we do summer? For it is this time annually we embrace the end of the colder, shadowed half of the year and start wearing less; start listening to different kinds of music, start to tan willingly.
Is our elation as much a symptom of some condition as depression is a disorder to people during winter? Is this more than merely being happy the sun is shining – hip hip hooray? It seems to me a conscious effort by Brits to pursue happiness. Why do we not choose to wear bright colors during winter, why do we not listen to summer hits when it is cold and raining? Surely these things make us happy, heightening the spirit of summer, so wouldn’t they improve our mood during the drearier parts of the year?
So couldn’t we say, with fairness, that our lower mood during winter is something self-inflicted? What is rain but a means for plant life to live, one natural act that by itself is nothing more than a change in pressure causing the moisture in the clouds to precipitate. Of course, the sun has many positive affects on us, supplying us with Vitamin D – maybe it is an instinct – a part of our genetic make up to want after the sun. This might be because we cannot get Vitamin D as easily during the darker and colder parts of the year, is this a part of the mystery as to why so many of us dislike winter?
Perhaps.
George Lucas, stop – Ok? Just stop doing whatever you’re doing because when I think of bad dialogue (possibly the worst dialogue to be given such a big budget and have such a wide audience) I think of you. When I thought of doing this post there was a particular scene that came to mind from that soap opera that masquerades as a sci-fi film Star Wars Episode III.
This is taken from the script:
- PADME stands in the balcony brushing her hair. ANAKIN leans against the wall, watching her lovingly…
ANAKIN: You are so beautiful!
PADME: It’s only because I’m so in love . . .
ANAKIN: No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
PADME: So love has blinded you?
ANAKIN: Well, that’s not exactly what I meant . . .
PADME: But it’s probably true!
They laugh.
And how can we forget that classic line from Darth Vader:
“Noooooooooooooooooooooo!”
Part 2 – Soon
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The Mugger (Again!)
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Last night on Platform A where I waited for my train after work, I noticed a couple standing across from me sucking the faces off of each other. As I tried to dislodge a sweet stuck behind one of my teeth, I thought about kissing – what makes you a good kisser, what makes you bad?
It is the most searched for thing on the internet – or more accurately: “How To Kiss” is – but I believe it doesn’t come down to technique, but instead style.
For years I have been told Im a somewhat “amazing” kisser, an achievement that was not exactly hard work considering my big lips. But then I met my ex – imagine my complete befuddlement when he told me that I need to practice. How dare he, I thought. A year later we talk about my skills again and he tells me how I have gotten much better.
Better? Or used to his style of kissing. What could be an exciting, heart pumping rush of a kiss between two people – could be a clumsy wet face, smudge when tried with another person. I had nailed a technique, so why couldn’t my ex understand that what he was getting was top notch kissing?! I would always start with lips, gradually introducing some tongue to build upon the progression of the kiss. What I was surprised to find was that my ex approached things completely differently. Heads tilt almost 90 degrees, mouths open and tongues wrestle.
Who can say which of us can kiss and who cannot. I think it comes down to preference, style and even a person’s own limitations – maybe it is the case that some people naturally use their tongue more if, say, their lips are thinner. While other people use their lips more. Some people suck on lips, others run their tongues along the other person’s teeth. There are so many techniques and quirks that we all have but because sometimes they are not obvious to others at first we mistake the other person as being a bad kisser and thus incompatible. When really you can both work at it and end up enjoying kissing each other as much as past partners you were used to.
But there are a few fundamental rules that can see anyone through any type of kiss – whether you enjoy it or not comes down to both of you, not just one person.
1000 HITS
Ok, so it’s an alright start – my last site had about 200 hits a day which equals a far greater total than WordShock’s, since January – but that was then and WordShock is now!
Thank you to everyone that has been stopping by and reading my posts.
