What do you assign to Mordor?

[Diamond18]

Mmmm... anchovies. Yum.

I would like to assign the cheesewit I almost broadsided tonight coming home from work. Imagine this: a dark city street, me going 30 MPH, then El Dumbo zips out from a partiallly concealed parking lot just a few yards ahead of me. I almost smashed into the fool and had to slam on my brakes. I hate slamming on my brakes. I assign having to slam on my brakes to Mordor. And what if the road had been wet? What if it had been raining? What then? I wouldn't have got home in time to start Day 5 of WWJVIII, that's what. Not to mention my car, my poor beautiful baby, would have been wrecked! Fool! Fie upon thee!

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Fea

I assign sunburn. An unexpected art class critique taking place out of doors and a picnic lunch as insisted by friends while having completely forgotten the use and beauty of sunblock has my, as entitled by the same friends, "porcelain" skin... very pink.

Heartily seconded. I couldn't stop panicking inside when I saw my shoulders turned red after forgetting to put on sunblock...and who told me to wear a sleeveless blouse?

It's especially painful (not physically) since, for some reason, I'm quite obsessed with staying as fair-skinned as I can be. Ask Nilp. I can't help but frown whenever I compare the part of my arms facing away from my torso to that facing inward. The colors are so different that I feel like a streamlined orca. I really really can't see myself sporting a tan; I'm sure I would not recognize myself in the mirror when it comes to that.

Originally Posted by Zali

Hey Lhuna--I just see bad hair days as good hat days. I have a lovely bright orange hat that I wear when my hair gets bad...it's just about my favorite accessory!

I know...but you see, I'm not so much of a hat person. I love the feeling of my hair covering my face.


Moving right along...

I assign the times I feel that my will is strong but my body is weak. My arms, specifically. It was just a matter of holding the rocks as tight as I can manage without going overmuch, and then reaching up and holding another...but this time I just couldn't. I had barely climbed my own five-foot-two height up the wall when I started to feel my forearms burn, and no matter how much I wanted to go further up my arms were crying out to me in agony. So what could I do?

Maybe it's my fault for hanging for 42 seconds before the climb.

Also, I assign long nails - my own this time. I love them, but how they impeded my climbing. And how dirty they look with all the chalk stuck under them.

[Lalwendë]

I assign having meetings that last all day, like yesterday so you don't get a dinnertime and have to do all your shopping today, which is ridiculously busy because a. it's sunny for the first time in months, and b. everyone's in a panic because the city centre will close down at 4pm while Sheffield United have a big parade.

I also assign the woman who spent fifteen minutes fussing with lottery tickets in front of me in the queue in Sainsburys. Cowbag.

I assign worrying about how I'm going to get home from work tonight.

And I assign Snails and slugs again! I have now discovered the joys of copper taping pots of plants in the garden and though it's hideously expensive stuff, its worth it. I spent some happy times on Monday experimenting by watching little snails get electrical shocks and have to turn back from their sadly unfulfilled quests to eat my new petunias. *evil smiley*

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Burn lines. My shoulders, mostly, are still creamy, but they go downright red where my sleeves ended, and my neck's even gone so far as to have a delicate white curve through the middle of my burn where my necklace had lain. It's got to be the most hilarious looking burn... I don't blame everyone I live for for trying not to laugh shortly after their horrified exclamations. "That happened after one class and then lunch outside!?!?" A polite nod. "Sunlight and I aren't the closest friends, even on the best of occasions."

Knowing that to be even remotely comfortable today, I'm going to be really limited in which shirts I can wear. Knowing that any shirts I do wear will leave me very open to burning more and worse.

Ugh, if only I'd had on stupid sunblock! *shakes fist at the sun and searches for a high SPF*

[Lalaith]

Major sympathies on the sunburn, Fea, from another pale lady. (I once fell asleep in the sun, without sunblock, and had to take three days off work as a result - because I was too burnt to wear clothes. Children and sensitive people recoiled from me for weeks, I was so hideous. I still bear the scars years later, freckles on a previously snowy decolletage. All definitely assigned to Mordor.)

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

the city centre will close down at 4pm while Sheffield United have a big parade.

Will Sean Bean be there, I wonder?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Will Sean Bean be there, I wonder?

I'd put money on it! He drinks in the pub down the bottom of our road when he's back in Sheffield to watch a match. But you'd have to be a brave man or a Bean to venture into that alehouse on a matchday!