SOS (here it is, the groove, slightly transformed)

as I steal formatting from Amy...

So, I am trying to convince myself that taking the Summer of Sheila[1] would be a bad idea, given that a) I will be unemployed in...2 weeks and b) I have night classes and c) I cannot guarantee unlimited availability until August (I know it is irresponsible of me, but god *dammit*, this year has sucked so far and I will BY GOD be going to Comic Con to make up for it) and d) I DON'T HAVE AN EXIT PLAN. I get severance from work, because my job is basically being done via the internet and Canada, and I can collect unemployment (shame! slackerness! oh noes! zomg!), and I can totally temp short-term. I just. I am SO FUCKING TIRED. Of everything. I am tired of having to talk to people, I am tired of having to be nice, I am tired of having to go do a boring job for not a lot of pay, I am tired tired tired.

Summer of Sheila = bad idea! I know this! And yet. The prospect of *not having to work* for a few months is awfully tempting. I don't have that much to pay in bills (and will have -- hopefully -- significantly *less* to pay in two months), my rent is relatively low, and I don't have dependents, and all that jazz. I could do it. I just shouldn't, because...uh. I should have a job. And there is a part of my brain that is going, "OMG YOU LAZY SLACKER!" which totally fucking sucks, 'cause you know, I may be a lazy slacker, but I'm a *busy* lazy slacker and seriously, brain, STFU.

I don't know. I'm just like wtf. I'm not actually concerned about my ability to get a job (despite, uh, not having gotten one yet) because If All Else Fails, there is always temp work. Which is just. Yeah. This was supposed to be my Year of Getting My Financial Shit Together and I haven't done *poorly* on that, but being unemployed certainly won't help it and I like money. money money money. But I like sleeping too.

Hi, this is what Amy has to listen to every morning. Incoherent ramblings on the state of general suckitude that is my life. It could be worse, I know, but it's just. I would like a year in which nothing bad happens, okay? I'm just putting that out there, universe. ONE YEAR WHERE THERE IS NOT A LOT OF ANGST. That is not so much to ask!

Man, I really want Summer of Sheila. Also to find a job where I fuck around with spreadsheets and data entry and stuff and do not have to talk to people and can maybe listen to music, because seriously, *seriously*, it is AMAZING the sheer number of stupid people it is possible to talk to in a day. KENTUCKY IS NOT A CITY, MOTHERFUCKERS. IT IS REALLY NOT. PLEASE STOP ANSWERING MY "WHAT CITY?" QUESTION WITH A STATE, OKAY? THANK YOU, DRIVE THROUGH.

Anyway. The weather's getting hotter which means it is almost time for the summer mix of music, which will always always include "Summertime" by Will Smith (and DJ Jazzy Jeff). It is not summer until that song kicks it off.

ETA: man, if there are people in the world who do not love "Summertime," I just do not want to know. Their lives must be so sad!

Some of us at work have taken to calling this summer the Summer of *Insert Name Here*, because we're all really tired and stressed and unhappy and we all want to Not Work for a while and because of the severance package, we don't have to. for a bit. It's like three weeks for me.

hey, bandslashers

Don't get me wrong, I love me some girl!Patrick and girl!Pete, but um. Where are the girl!Andy and girl!Joe stories?

Because...seriously. Hot, tattooed and pierced drummer Andy? As a girl? Tell me that's not awesome. Go ahead, tell me. And then you can tell me that there's no Santa Claus. And girl!Joe! Would still have the 'fro. And love star wars and be a big spastic dork.

...wow, hey, I think I just went to my happy place with girls!Andy and Joe. I just. Wow. Yeah.

girl!Andy. I. Uh. Well. I think that someone should write girl!Andy, yes I do.

I totally need an Andy icon.

ETA: No, really, I am not usually a genderswap person at all. But. like, there is totally the thing where Patrick pings like a girl for me and Andy is hot, yeah, but is like, whole degrees of magnitude hotter as the girl in my head wearing the wifebeaters and the cutoff raggedy cargo pants and the sleeve tattoos and the piercings, dear god, drumming like a crazyperson and being the anarcho-hippie comic I want to say dyke, 'cause *seriously*, but I am so totally okay with Andy -- boy or girl, but really truly as a girl -- getting it from anyone who catches his/her fancy.

I *told* you Andy was a ninja. He attacks with his stealth hotness powers!

Dude, this fandom. I could SO TOTALLY go for Fall Out Girl. With girl!Patrick being all curvy and redheaded with that *voice* and the temper and the attitude; girl!Pete being all Pete-like and wearing boyjeans and, you know, busting a Christina when the media calls her a whore and calling them on their BS double standards and maybe macking on Eve just because, uh, Eve is REALLY GAY Y'ALL, and also hot though maybe Eve is really more of a girl!Patrick hookup; girl!Joe rockin' the guitar she bought with money from her bat mitzvah and the *hair* and being all, "Fuck you, I will KICK YOUR ASS if you say that shit about the original trilogy again, Wentz," and then leaping on girl!Pete and wrestling and girl!Pete is all, "You fight like a girl!" and girl!Joe is like, "You're fucking right I do," and then there is hairpulling and girl!Pete going, "Fuck, fuck, MY HAIR, YOU FUCKER!" and girl!Joe like, elbows girl!Pete in the stomach and then there is biting and eventually they end up lying on the floor, sweaty and exhausted and bruised and occasionally flailing half-heartedly in each other's general direction or, you know, something; and oh, girl!Andy who...I got no words for, man, but she'd be AWESOME.

Fall Out Girl. S'all I'm sayin'.

ETA2: And okay, really, all I'm saying is that if I go to the logical genderswap place, for certain definitions of logical that are OMG SO AWESOME, girl!Kanye? Would *still* make fun of them. And girl!Timbaland is essentially Missy E, but looks like Queen Latifah. Hi, THE MOSTLY WOMEN MUSICAL WORLD IS MADE OF AWESOME. Oh, crack. Sometimes you are made of fun. girl!Kanye, btw, is totally the brilliant brainchild of goluxexmachina.

ETA3: Also? in Emo Scene Fight Club? I will back pretty much any member of FOB against anyone else. I bet they're dirty, dirty fighters. Also, Andy and Pete totally go into a fight to win. Patrick does if he's pissed enough. And Joe...somehow does not strike me as a fighter, though if you fuck with his friends he will take you out. Hi, I don't know where this urge for violence came from? But there it is. There should be more punching.

I'm totally downloading Heroes. Possibly the cracktacular talk will stop then. Possibly.

ETA4: ...dude, seriously, why don't I live in a world with Toni Kiedis and Jane Frusciante and whatever the girl version of Zach would be.