Saturday December 20, 2008 at 12:19 am
Happy I missed you
I was lying around today watching Titanic and pondering how mush my mind has become, because for some reason, when I first saw that movie (5th grade?) I was all, ugh, Leo is such an icky pretty boy, and now I’m all, GOD give him to me.
Maybe because I’m finally close enough to the age he’s supposed to be in the movie?
Now that I think about it, no, I’m pretty sure he played a 20-year-old. Am I over two years older than Jack Dawson?
This is why I can’t get myself out of bed anymore.
I wrote once before about how I came across an old etiquette book during my sophomore year of college. In reality, I don’t know why I don’t just come right out and say things — things like, once, I was dating this boy during my sophomore year of college and saw an old etiquette book in his room that he got from working at the library and I stole it.
I’ve never actually sat down and read the thing, but I still love flipping through and making note of the good ones.
From Etiquette by Post, 1922:
On Phrases Avoided in Good Society: “A girl may be lovely to look at as she stands in a seemingly unstudied position and in perfect clothes. But let her say ‘Gee, it looks swell!’ and where is her loveliness then?”
On Courtship: “It is the immediate duty of the man to go to the girl’s father and ask his consent. If her father refuses, the engagement cannot exist.”
On Sharing with your Girlfriend: “It is perfectly suitable for her to drive his car, or ride his horse, but, if she would keep her self-respect, the car must not become hers nor must she use his furniture until she is given his name.”
On Divorce: “Divorce is too serious a subject to be more than barely mentioned in such a book as this.” Also, “The strict rules of etiquette demand that the divorced meet as total, and unspeaking, strangers.”
On Travel: “A ‘lady’ who has not enough money to travel properly with a maid should stay at home.”
On Parties: “What makes a brilliant party? Clothes. Good clothes. A frumpy party is nothing more or less than a collection of badly dressed persons.”
I was lying around today watching Titanic and pondering how mush my mind has become, because for some reason, when I first saw that movie (5th grade?) I was all, ugh, Leo is such an icky pretty boy, and now I’m all, GOD give him to me.
Maybe because I’m finally close enough to the age he’s supposed to be in the movie?
Now that I think about it, no, I’m pretty sure he played a 20-year-old. Am I over two years older than Jack Dawson?
This is why I can’t get myself out of bed anymore.
I wrote once before about how I came across an old etiquette book during my sophomore year of college. In reality, I don’t know why I don’t just come right out and say things — things like, once, I was dating this boy during my sophomore year of college and saw an old etiquette book in his room that he got from working at the library and I stole it.
I’ve never actually sat down and read the thing, but I still love flipping through and making note of the good ones.
From Etiquette by Post, 1922:
On Phrases Avoided in Good Society: “A girl may be lovely to look at as she stands in a seemingly unstudied position and in perfect clothes. But let her say ‘Gee, it looks swell!’ and where is her loveliness then?”
On Courtship: “It is the immediate duty of the man to go to the girl’s father and ask his consent. If her father refuses, the engagement cannot exist.”
On Sharing with your Girlfriend: “It is perfectly suitable for her to drive his car, or ride his horse, but, if she would keep her self-respect, the car must not become hers nor must she use his furniture until she is given his name.”
On Divorce: “Divorce is too serious a subject to be more than barely mentioned in such a book as this.” Also, “The strict rules of etiquette demand that the divorced meet as total, and unspeaking, strangers.”
On Travel: “A ‘lady’ who has not enough money to travel properly with a maid should stay at home.”
On Parties: “What makes a brilliant party? Clothes. Good clothes. A frumpy party is nothing more or less than a collection of badly dressed persons.”
