Why don't we do it in the road?

[raybear]

The New Yorker had an article on Martha Stewart, drag queens in Nebraska, and a short story by Alive Munro. I bought it. Even though Murhpy's Law says my subscription that I bought for myself for xmas nearly three months ago will probably finally start this week. Will reading this magazine make me (more) gay and pretentious? It's unclear.

I'm ready to go home and my usual trick of doing work to make time pass isn't working -- probably because I'm printing out 200 pages of briefs which is not terribly exciting. Hence me designing an entirely unscientific poll based on a comic strip I read on my lunch hour.


[Poll #265611]

Comments

[tracijean.livejournal.com]

naps make me depressed! i want a cheeseburger! i just got that new yorker in the mail and am about to go sit and enjoy it! xoxo

[lakenaiad.livejournal.com]

Actually, aptly enough, when I subscribed to the New Yorker it made me feel lazy, because I could ne ver keep up with it and more often than not the next issue would arrive before I'd even cracked the previous one. It quickly got out of control and I let whole successive issues slide. I had to get out of that ring of insanity, man.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Dude, I can't always keep up with Entertainment Weekly. Seriously. Anything that comes EVERY week is too much for me. But I found a NY subscription that was really really cheap and I figured even if I just read the published fiction every week, it will be worth it. It's towards my education, right?

[gloeden.livejournal.com]

Had my eightball (and a sammich), ready to nod off now.

i don't know, but junk food vegetarians sure are

[effeminasculine.livejournal.com]

i'm tired and wanting to nap all the time and i'm sure it's the anemia from not compensating for the lack of flesh in my diet. if i actually ate better nutritionally, it's conceivable i'd be less lazy than meat-eaters who overdo it and have to crash out while all the blood goes to their stomachs trying to break down all that protein, but... who knows, really...

[lakenaiad.livejournal.com]

Two words: Tax writeoff!

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

The crazy thing is now that I've subscribed to a bunch of magazines, if I'm reading one magazine and a new one comes in the mail, I'll completely abandon the first magazine. I don't know why. This is why I have to read them in one sitting. It's sad because I like to read every word of a magazine and lately have found myself skipping stuff.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I pretty much can only read magazines in one-sitting. Otherwise I put them down and they never get picked up again.

[dommeyourass.livejournal.com]

personally i think the new yorker is far inferior to atlantic monthly or harpers, unless you actually live in new york.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

harper's is my new favorite.

[loosethread.livejournal.com]

I'm not taking the poll but i wanted to tell you that i saw you this morning on the train. I waved and waved but you were too into your ipod.

[brucebanner.livejournal.com]

Harper's was my new favorite until I discovered W mag. Now W is my new favorite, but I also love Harper's and The NewYorker.

I only read the fiction in NYer b/c I'm ususally way too busy. I cut and save all the poetry from NYer because I love it.

We also get National Geographic, but only for the pictures. I have yet to actually read any of the words in National Geographic. My fav issues are of the ocean floor, The Former Eastern Bloc, and space. Those are ususally the best photos, IMO.

Does your poll imply that consumption of meat leads to feelings of listlessness?

just curious,
Joe

[raybear.livejournal.com]

how rude of me! so sorry, loose. next time just come up and hit me on the head. or throw yourself against the window and yell dramatically.

Welcome to my pet peeve

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

I'm not a carnivore! I eat veggies! Yar!

::cough:: Um. I only don't wish I napped every day because I have this inertia problem. I have to gogogo and if I don't, there's no going at all. Napping is a one-way ticket to no productivity.

i have issues

[keetbabe.livejournal.com]

but then again, don't we all? according to my research class that i just finished, your first question is called a double-barrel question and is not considered a 'good research question', because the first question is not mutually exclusive nor is it exhaustive. i'm pleased that i actually learned something in that class. don't mean to get all be-attchy with you, just that there is a difference and a BIG difference between taking a nap every day and WISHING you could take a nap every day. so to find a relationship between us meat-eaters out here (and i'm fairly new to this bunch again) -- one would have to tease out these differences between wish and action.

thanks for listening. phew. naptime.

[milosh.livejournal.com]

in college i napped all the damn time. now i nap infrequently, but wish i could nap all the damn time. but, like someone said earlier, naps sometimes make me depressed -- i just don't like waking up when it's dark. but when i'm in a good place, then i want to nap all the time.

today i walked several miles, shouting and singing, then ate chicken soup and a bacon cheeseburger, and crashed for a 2-hour nap. hm...

Re: i have issues

[raybear.livejournal.com]

you crack me up. have i mentioned that this is a livejournal poll with poor sampling of subjects? i love playing amateur sociologist and analyzing my poll results, but i always know they're wildly inaccurate, even more so than regular research. and now i have real sociologist type people on my friends list who are ruining my fun!!!
(only kidding.)

and you may be pleased to discover, according to the unofficial unscientific results of my poll, there seems to be no positive correlation or causation between eating meat and wanting to nap.

Re: i have issues

[keetbabe.livejournal.com]

"there seems to be no positive correlation or causation between eating meat and wanting to nap."


unless it's turkey.

:)