Looking for love in all the wrong places. In which I try to create a meme.

[webcowgirl]

Okay, if you're looking for a little LJ love, why not try a post requesting valentines? It will be just like elementary school, where you'd have a brown paper bag taped to your desk, and at the end of the day you'd see who dropped something inside. You can post it publicly and allow anonymous responses, if you think you might have a good Valentine waiting out there for you ... my post did quite well, I think! (Of course, I only say this because I am boycotting 14022006 (and the American version of same, whatever that is ...) - what's the point of spending all that time trolling for lurve only to discover there AIN'T NONE OUT THERE! So much better to just put it on your own little journal where you can get emailed when your messages of undying devotion are deposited.)

Uh ... yeah, in other news, I dreamed shadowdaddy and I were trapped by some gangsters in a hotel, but when they tried to steal his diploma and HSMP letters out of his suitcase, I went totally ballistic in my attempts to save said pieces of paper. And I dreamed about making jello. Go figure.

And my bus was 20 minutes late, but that's another story.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I think the paper bag thing must be an American thing; it's certainly not a custom I've ever been familiar with in any English school.

Somehow the idea of asking for valentines seems rather wrong. But then again I'm perhaps something of an old-fashioned sort who feels that one should only give a valentine if one feels a genuine attraction (expressed or otherwise) to the intended recipient.

I don't like those valentine communities/LJs such as 21406 and 14022006; they're little more than a depressing popularity contest. you have the morons who post the same pathetic (and overlarge) graphic as a "valentine" to just about everyone on their f-list, rendering the whole thing meaningless; and at the other end you have people silently trawling it looking for their own name, and either feeling incredibly disheartened when they find either fewer mentions than the previous year or - even worse - no mention at all, or else staring hopefully at the more cryptic ones and trying to guess if they're aimed at them.

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, the communities are completely depressing. On the other hand, if people have valentines on the brain, I do want them to know where I'm looking for mine ... in my own mailbox. And I thought it was a good meme to suggest.

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

I agree about the communities. But I'm too scared to ask directly aswell.