Happy Quirkyalone Day!
(And if you’re coupled, you can be quirkytogether, not a merging of the two people but a supportive relationship that allows each of you to be your own quirky self. You can celebrate that today as well! Just forget about those roses and chocolates and come up with something quirky, like pizza with a movie marathon of all your favorite romantic comedies…)
More thoughts a bit later on 2/14: The more I wish people a Happy Quirkyalone Day, the less I like the word “quirkyalone.” I like quiry but alone?!? That seems to buy into and perpetuate the myth that we singles are alone! I am not alone, thank you very much, I have tons of friends. I just happen to sleep by myself at night. How about quirkysingle? Or what about just quirky and single? Or, gulp, how about just being who we are and not worrying about the label! (Hat tip to Mary Ann for that idea that, as simple as it is, seems strangely revolutionary…)
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That’s a good point, Wiebes. Maybe using the term “quirkyalone” is a way to take back this definition of “alone” that does not have any value judgments associated with it. Too often, the association is alone=lonely.
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“I am not alone, thank you very much, I have tons of friends. I just happen to sleep by myself at night.”
So at night you are alone? By definition? I am wondering if there is some confusion between “alone” and “lonely”. You don’t sound lonely (which is a judgement word) but “alone” is an objective description to indicate whether you are in contact with others at the moment or not.
John: All your URLs came through, they just showed up as the link with your name (hover over your name from the 2:20 PM comment…). The two shorter messages ended up in the spam filter, so that’s why they didn’t show up. You can use HTML code in comments.
Well, that didn’t work. Let’s try it again. This time I’ll put the URL in the body:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPZnP7YDCY&fmt=18
Quirky? Here’s my favorite quirky non-couple, Lou and Peter Berryman. You can find more of their music on youtube under LouandPeter.