Since I'm clearly not getting anything else done today

[melannen]

Who wants a cartomancy reading? Pick a deck, I'll do a basic four card draw, we can all interpret it together. Offer good until Monday night. Offer closed, but will be finishing up the requested readings soon!

Choice of decks:
1. Audubon's Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
2. Modern Art
3. Iraqi War Criminals c. 2003
4. Computer House of Cards
5. 1982 Chippendales
6. Iraqi and Afghan Heritage Resource Preservation
7. The Game of Authors
8. Forgotten English Insults
9. Sesame Street: You're a Grouch
10. Radacad Radioactive Materials Security Training
11. Geology Knowledge Cards
12. Women Who Dare
13. Random

Comments

[melannen]

Okay! Here's yours. Bearing in mind that if you ask for insults, you're probably not going to get the most positive of readings. :P



Where you've been: Blowmaunger: Used by the Exmoorians to denote a fat, blown-cheek'd person, as if blown up with fat by full feeding and juncketing; or perhaps it may be applied to one who puffs and blows while he is eating. Perhaps from the French blankmanger, a kind of flummery - Frederick Elworthy's Devonshire Glossary, 1879

Have you been overindulgent in the past - not necessarily around food, but it could be?

Where you are now: Zounderkite: Usually applied to one whose stupid conduct results in awkward mistakes. - C. Clough Robinson's Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, 1876

Is there something you've done lately that you feel like is a stupid mistake, or you are afraid could be? Alternatively, maybe you've made a stupid mistake and haven't realized it yet. Maybe related to what was in the first card?

Where you are going: Shooler: One who intrudes upon his neighbour, and forces an invitation to dinner, &c. - Pishey Thompson's History and Antiquities of Boston, 1856. From shoole, to go skulking about - Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811

I am going to run positive here and say that the cards are suggesting that the fix for your mistake it to let other people help you where you need it (though not, of course, to excess.)

What you should do: Gump: A foolish person; a dolt. - John Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms, 1849

And while you're working on that, don't make any more foolish mistakes - but also don't be afraid to let yourself be a brave fool, if you need to.

[calliopes_pen]

Have you been overindulgent in the past - not necessarily around food, but it could be?

I can safely say that one's a great big no for me.

Can't think of any stupid mistakes.

Ah, well. It may not be accurate for me, but at least it's fun.