How does it feel?

[asakiyume]

On Marketplace, they said they have a place on their website where people can write in how the economy feels to them.

Well.

I think it's kind of dry on top, but damp underneath, and there are prickles at the edge that ooze if you break them, and that stuff gives you a hella rash if you get it on you.

How about you? What does it feel like to you?

Comments

[selidor]

Economy as weird fungal growth for the win.

[marycatelli]

Feel? I don't know. I just notice that the selection of calendars seems lackluster.

It seems every recession shakes out the weaker selling ones. And -- sigh -- even the gorgeous ones never return.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Squamous and eldritch, with the occasional tentacle rising from the deep.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Over-oily. :(

[sovay]

How about you? What does it feel like to you?

Like five o'clock with insomnia.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

I don't know about *feel*, but I sure can't dance to it.

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

The economy feels like a very large water balloon in one's hand, rolling to the left and the right, seeking the ground that it might burst. If one grasps it too tightly to keep it from falling, it might also burst.

[maryvictoria.livejournal.com]

It gets all over you and can't be washed out with normal household detergent. Every time I find a smear of market on me I groan as I know it's going to mean months of mental cleansing. Last time the stain totally ruined my karma and I had to buy another one.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

I find the Economy is not too bad, maybe a little scratchy, and the leg room can be a bad tight. But I'd much prefer Business, if I could afford it.

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Like traversing an arête, several hundred feet up, with the cold wind gusting.

[galestorm.livejournal.com]

Meep.

In other words, how could it sound any different now that you've described it so well?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

It feels like slogging through sticky mud as I watch my daughter struggle to find a decent paying job, and fail.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I need to work more on the feel side.

What it looks like to me is a busy machine, less shiny than it was, spitting out bones-- shrinking and not noticing that it's shrinking.

ETA: One thing it feels like is a soup tureen of narrow sharp needles.

[lorigami.livejournal.com]

soylent green.

[dudeshoes.livejournal.com]

It feels OK to me until I pass one of the many homeless in Boston. Then it feels very uncomfortable.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell with all the chains keeping it down.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

The economy feels brittle to me. Delicate. As if, if you touched it, it might crumble into number fragments.