orange bathtubs and random oddities

[dchenes]

There's got to be a word somewhere for what happens when you're unhappy, and then you run across somebody unhappier, and suddenly you're fine again, without the whole process of "gee, that's awful, I should appreciate what I've got" going on in your head.

Anyway, I'm better today. I didn't get quite enough sleep last night, and my previously white bathtub is a really disturbing shade of orange because I left bleach in it for most of 16 hours, but I feel better about life in general. The prevailing internet wisdom says that Clorox 2 will fix the bathtub problem, so I'm going to try that. (What DID people do without the internet?) Since it's mostly peroxide, I expect it will bleach the porcelain out again.

Comments

Schadenfraude

[silverbackbutch.livejournal.com]

the official definition is "happiness at the misfortune of others" (It's missing the umlauts over the U). Featured wonderfully in the musical "Avenue Q"

Re: Schadenfraude

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

It's not quite schadenfreude, because schadenfreude doesn't necessarily involve you being unhappy to begin with, and the condition I'm trying to name does.