Why are you in a middling temper?

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For those of us who seem to exist in a state less defined, and less romantic, than happiness or unhappiness.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 July 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I'm high.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 July 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

After listening to my Canadian friends go on about their Smarties for so long, I finally tried some, and the yellow ones taste all kinds of wack.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone offered me a bag of corn nuts, and I accepted gratefully, but as it turns out I think they're kind of eh.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes it's just easier to be middling.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i've just watched 'Private Lessons 2'.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

because the sun rises, and the sun sets, and everything inbetween is just the middle, so it doesn't matter.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I just answered the phone in the newsroom where I work to hear an anonymous caller tip that the newspaper I work for will be laying off have its staff in the next month.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

have = half

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I was out drinking until 4 a.m. and I have to be at work at 6 p.m. and I have a story to finish in the meantime.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

because you're sitting in front of a computer again !!! DUH!
[This is just me talking to myself again.]

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 20 July 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

because of lots of long involved email correspondance and because i have cigarettes and the cheap thrill of teenage townies flirting with me to get them

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 20 July 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

because I'm too hung over to think again and I have to do a lot of work with my brain so instead I'm passive-aggressively reading message boards on company time because I need a raise and a vacation.

Oh, and the world is terrifying.

Actually, I'm on the wrong thread. Where's "Why do you feel like crap?"

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 20 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I'm nearly always in this inbetween state.

Is there a word to decribe this feeling of middling okayness?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

normality

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and my colleague were talking about this today, and we're convinced there must be a word to describe the feeling between happiness and unhappiness. I promised I'd try and find out. I'll pitch normality to her, but she's kinda fussy, she wouldn't accept middling.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Complacency? Ambivalence? Copaceticness?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mundane? Humdrum?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, copacetic sounds like a good choice, plus it's a Velocity Girl album.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think copacetic has a slight positive implication though, so it's not really in the middle.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess, but I think our slant is toward being 60-5% happy, rather than totally middling.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Because tomorrow is a holiday and so I don't have to do any work today but I will tomorrow but that will be okay because I can escape and I have a vague memory of caring about it, which I may be able to revive. Meanwhile, the revival of the Pynchon thread reminded me that I used to like to read and that the Pinefox recommended the Crying of Lot 49.

― youn, Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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