Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
“…nah, nothing too suggestive, reminds me of my first apartment”
Friday:
- clarks: having survived the pressure/suffocating-tedium of the work week, and see Friday Night as the dress rehearsal for Saturday Night (all of the realism, none of the pressure)
- scotts: having gotten through one more week without: getting fired/getting promoted/getting a new boyfriend/hearing from an old girlfriend… looks at Friday Night as audition night for Saturday Night
- rogers: having fulfilled the responsibilities of the job, this is an evening of orderly relaxation as the precise schedule of the work week transitions to the precise schedule of the weekend, and …they hope to get lucky (not an item to be written into the schedule, however)
so…when you approach this evening (Friday Night!) and you realize that, like it or not, your evening is being planned for you, so as a result, it doesn’t matter if your Friday Night means that you: do the laundry (because you had enough clean shirts and underwear to last the week), do the grocery shopping (because one more night of take out/Stouffers for the family meal would push the dial into the red zone on the guilt-o-meter), stop by at the bar (because you worked all week, you deserve it), stay at home (because you really do enjoy one night alone with the TV and Señor Daz ), wait and hope that someone calls and suggests something that does not involve an exactly even number of participants (why the hell work, if there isn’t anything left but sleep and eat?)…. all that being said, there is something NEW today this very Friday Night! Courtesy of 21st Century Technology:
the Wakefield Doctrine presents the Awesome Bloggers Video Chat (and) virtual Strip Poker Championship!
so, if you have just completed reading this:
- you’re a clark and the answer to your second (un-thought) question, ‘no! we do believe that you can avoid the traps and no, this is not doom and gloom for clarks, anything but!’
- you’re not a scott (we just told you, you’re a clark!) but you do have a friend who is a scott…tell them how this Post ended.
- oh, alright we were wrong, you’re a roger and you did actually read through this entire Post, even though you had to make a show out of not finishing this the first time
join us tonight… google+ (add the Wakefield Doctrine to your circle) or write a comment and I’m sure either Lizzi or Michelle will be happy to send you an invite.
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I’ve got big plans to see Kenny Rogers in concert tonight, so no vidchat for me. Although, with all the innuendos and talk of strip poker, I’m not too disappointed. I’m a bit too modest for such shenanigans. :)
Have fun! And remember, photos or it didn’t happen.
Christine
I’m thinking roger (Kenny) please let us know after the concert (remember: for roger’s it always personal, for scotts it’s about the audience paying attention, for clarks… ‘an offering’ without demands)
I have a date with Netflix tonight. Haha. Something about Mad Men. That’s what I love to do on Friday nights. And maybe make some of Melanie’s pizza. But first: lesson plans and oh-so-much coursework. Bleh.
Cyndi
nice suits… (lol) I’ve only seen commercials, never the show… I’m thinking one scott and everyone else rogers.. (same assignment as Christine’s: let us know after the moviethon!)
hahahaha!!!
Sleep sounds heavenly.. But laundry is calling my name way too loud..
Not sure when I will be back. Will look for you if timely and not in danger of what is now euphemistically referred to as “pulling a lizzi.”
Missed ya? I think Lizzi is on now… but I gotta get skip out for a bit then possibly…
Unsure yet. Very behind. Hubs home extra late. 2 teacher work days from school….we’ll see, we’ll see….
FRIDAY!!!
Don’t do video since I don’t have a camera, but thanks for the invite!
Worked until eight, rushed home to publish the TTOT hop (that still isn’t up), and now, trying to get around to some of the great friends blogs that have been so kind to me. Need to eat, sometime, and the wife will be home in two hours. Cats sitting next to me trying to figure out why I’d rather type than give them attention. And, yes, I’ve got to work tomorrow which will make 10 days without a day off. Life … don’t you love it?
In an unrelated note: is it me (being a clark) or does it suck working on group projects with rogers? This question came up after the call-in last night: I was working on a Google Doc with a classmate on a presentation we’re doing for Tuesday’s class. And boy, how I do things is SO not the way she does things. My tip-off that she’s a roger? Everything she’s done has sort of trumped what I’ve done: I did 11 slides on the powerpoint and she did 30 – mostly photos and slides of things that I have no idea how they’re going to relate to the presentation. How does a slide on “military time” relate to a presentation on reporting about increasing cultural awareness? Not sure, but I know I’ll find out. :P
I hope it’s not a bad sign that I prefer working solo on EVERYTHING except when it comes to MAYBE other clarks. But, egads…
Cyndi
yeah… roger there. (I find that, provided you have a rolled up newspaper handy) scotts can be good collaborators, they are focused on the reaction of the ‘audience’ to the product and not to them… and therein lies the problem with working with a roger… it’s about them…personally.
so if it does not matter to you if you are recognized as an author of this thing, then you can help the roger do their thing! lol (but plan on them rejecting every single suggestion you may have…which is not to say that you won’t have ideas that they like, but they have to piss on them first and then discover a form of the idea that is (in their eyes) different from your stupid idea)
I hope I’m not sounding negative here…lol
hell, never mind a project…just talk to a roger on a subject that involves comparative subject matter and if you mountaineer bike up Pikes Peak one summer, I guarantee that there is a roger nearby who just got back from the Himalayas…lol they totally do that ‘one-up’ thing with clarks and rogers not so much with scotts