A poll of questions

[slemslempike]

A poll for a morning, a Thursday morning, apparently, which means that I must remember to buy the Guardian to get the booklet about Freshers Week.

[Poll #1446248]

And I would have posted about this horrible review in the Independent before if I'd been here. I haven't seen The Girlfriend Experience, though it sounds interesting, and I've no idea if his other criticisms are valid, but this:

One of them, the elephantine Tessa (Debbie Chazen) giggles nervously about going to see a play that she's in.
There's no point in not saying that these huge and unappetising women come across as being incredibly sad and curiously stupid, with their whale-like lolloping around

is fairly vile no matter what.

Comments

[majea.livejournal.com]

I probably overstated the whole 'lifestyle' thing. My lifestyle would remain the same, but my social life would be nearly unrecognizable. That might not be a bad thing.

I don't know if you're a pessimist, but I think you're well aware of when things go wrong or how they could potentially go wrong. I chose optimist for me because, while I may be aware of those things, I much prefer to stick my head in the sand and sing a happy song.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Do you think you'd mind being sober around all the other drunks? I waver on that. My pub quiz time can sometimes be a bit weird about me not drinking. No I would not like some vodka in that, that's why I asked for ORANGE JUICE and not VODKA AND ORANGE.

At the moment it is pretty much 60/40 people thinking they're optimistic/pessimistic, and 40/60 people thinking I'm optimistic/pessimistic. I can't quite work out what I think I am. I keep being told my work is negative and I think it's quite positive to say "no, this isn't as good as it gets, this isn't okay yet".

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Aha, that was my logic for calling you optimistic - you very clearly believe that things can be better and that that's worth striving for.

On the not drinking thing, the thing I find really uncomfortable is that I appear to be of the age and marital status when choosing a soft drink frequently causes people to make erroneous assumptions about pregnancy/"trying" and it's really very icky. It's enough to drive a woman to drink!