argh.

[mimesere]

LJ as messageboard
rawumber, I am actually working tonight (and tomorrow and possibly Sunday). :(

Bitching

Family has gone mad. Embrace of crackpot "cures" has commenced.

On day 6 without a break from work.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope
Dude, seriously? I need distracting because otherwise my entire family is going to get an earful from me about the aforementioned crackpot cures.

Distract me, please, I don't care how. Ask me a question, introduce yourselves, leave a rec, ask for a rec, post a picture, whatever. Something. Please.

Comments

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Hi Sheila! Hi Sheila! Hi Sheila!

I think you should write more Grey's fic. Possibly we ALL should write more Grey's fic.

SUGGESTION: When a meteor smashes into a Pleistocene museum, the fury of a partially frozen, 40,000-year-old mammoth is unleashed on Seattle Grace.

I AM HERE TO HELP.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

...you are not wrong.

And also adorable.

*ponders The Interns of Seattle Grace vs A Mammoth*

[thelionforreal.livejournal.com]

1. what weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?

2. actually, my name is austin powers. danger is my middle name.

3.

4. you might have to change your middle name from 'jebediah' to 'bitches'. no disrespect.

5. did you invent that teleporter yet? because i can think of better ways to distract you. possibly pervacious. here, leer at these. *smooooochin*cuddle*

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

1. They weigh the same.

2. Ooh, I like this game. Can I be Foxxy Cleopatra?

3. Mmmmm Cadman.

4. *snorfle* "Mr. Bitches?"

5. Curse those pesky laws of physics! *curses them, shaking fist and all* And yay, boobies!

[viggorlijah.livejournal.com]

Their's all looks more fun, but I just spent half an hour very interestedly reading up on Magnus Hirschfeld and his last partner who vanished sort of - although google links to a Chinese conference that tracked him to Canada.

Um. Alright, that's what I do for fun!

I would suggest leaving several copies of Dianetics around if crackpot cures are wanted for reading, or setting up flower essence baths.

This made me giggle badly for a while. I presume you know of aldaily.com already. Going to del.icio.us and chasing odd tags is often good.

Or! chocolate!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I will try those, danke.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I love you, and I'm sorry it's all so awful. ):

I find vidding terribly useful as a distraction, but it sounds like you may be working too much for that, so here's a question instead: How did you get into fandom?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I would vid, but somewhere along the line, my mother broke my external harddrive which has a) all my video files and b) is the only thing I have big enough to work with Premiere.

I would also have put up a mix, but my mp3s are also on the harddrive. It's all very tragic.

It depends. The first time I consider myself as having gotten into fandom, it was for the New Warriors comic out of Marvel. I was...twelve. And then AOL went all wonky and I had to quit. Then I was at NYU and I did a search on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and got the Slayer Fanfic site. I joined BBETA and Willfic and then in...January of that year, I got back with an actual computer of my own and went into IRC's #willfic where I met isabeau, kidchyron, katemonkey, and assorted others.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Broken hard drive! Noooo! ): I really hope it's fixable. ::crosses fingers::

Thanks for answering my question. Buffy seems to have been the second big wave of Internet fandom, after TXF (which is when I came in).

OMG, I know this is terribly, terribly lame as distraction, but I'm not good at it.

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

What was your favorite TV show in high school?

If you could be famous for something, what would you be famous for?

What's the hobby you have that you never want people to pay you to do?

What's the hobby you wish you had?

What's your favorite food to eat that other people think is disgusting?

Re: OMG, I know this is terribly, terribly lame as distraction, but I'm not good at it.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Early in high school, it was Kindred: The Embraced. Mmmm cheesy vampire soap with hot people. Junior year was Xena and senior year was BtVS.

I would be famous for writing television.

I...don't think I have any hobbies I wouldn't want to be paid for.

I wish I had any interest at all in crafts that involved yarn. It seems so productive.

er. Lemons with salt? I am very plain in my tastes.

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Oh, two better questions.

Why is Dr. "Hot Ass" Torres living in the hospital?

Where would I get a Grey's Anatomy icon?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Because she is secretly one of the activated Slayers and Seattle Grace Hospital is right over a weak spot in the dimensional fabric and demons and vampires and other things sometimes pop up there.

And fox1013 has a bunch of icon bases somewhere in her journal.

[gloss]

Because she is secretly one of the activated Slayers and Seattle Grace Hospital is right over a weak spot in the dimensional fabric and demons and vampires and other things sometimes pop up there
Okay, now I need to read this. THANKS A LOT, SHEILA.

*mwah*

[graygirl.livejournal.com]

::pounces on you in a piratey way:: Arrr!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*snuggle* Arrrrr.

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

I've found one can very effectively waste time by going back through thefourthvine's archives. Or you can waste a few hours at cesperanza's site, unless you've reread her fic recently.

Would music recs be appreciated?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Music recs are always appreciated.

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

I was composing a mental list of songs that I like listening to right now, and realised that quite a lot of them are actually pretty depressing. And while depressing songs are all well and good if you're in the right mood, it wasn't exactly what I was shooting for. So here are some songs that, while not all of them are happy, at least make me want to dance around the room. (I'm one of those people who plays the music really loud and dances when nobody's around to see.) You probably have some of these already, and I may even have got some of them from you; I don't remember where my music recs come from.

I'm also possibly a little overzealous when it comes to music, but at least you'll have a lot of options to consider.

Alkaline Trio - Private Eye
Arrogant Worms - Pirates of the Saskatchewan
Bare - You and I
Boney M - Rasputin
Bruce Springsteen - Lonesome Day
Guster - Careful
Idelwild - American English
Matt Nathanson - More Than This
Thea Gilmore - Down to Nowhere
The Tossers - Irish Whisky
Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
The Dandy Warhols - Scientist
Billy Bragg - Sexuality
The Decemberists - Legionnaire's Lament
The Decemberists - The Infanta

[celli]

I'd send you crackfic to distract you, but it's Sheppard/McKay crackfic. Hey, maybe you'd get all distracted by hating it?

And did I ever tell you that ever since you did that "one day's head start" Norrington/Sparrow art way back in the day, I've had a modern day AU flirting around in the back of my brain? v. evil.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've just given up reading McKay/Sheppard. I can't even work up hate about it anymore.

And I have all kinds of Jack/Norrington AUs in my head, including a noir-ish spy thriller in Verona Beach. So I highly support the writing of modern day AUs.

[gloss]

Aww, dude, I adore you and I want to help.

Here's a few questions for you: 1. Do you think Diefenbaker would get along with a werewolf? Would it depend on the particular werewolf's personality, maybe?
2. How *cute* would George O'Malley look as Norrington's ship surgeon with the little C18 ponytail? Awww!
3. Okay, that last one was rhetorical. So here's a real question - What does a girl have to do to get your attention?
(A: It involves a feather boa and the theme from 'A Summer Place'.)
3a. Can there ever be enough stories told about Oz?
3b. How about Gunn? Norrington?

In conclusion: I love you lots and lots and you rock my world. *endless snugs*

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*cuddles*

1. Yes, if the werewolf were sufficiently groovy. Oz could do a little acknowledging nod and Dief would acknowledge it and they would be cool.

2. George O'Malley would be a *wonderful* ship's surgeon for Norrington. He would be all flustered and clumsy and sometimes he would bang his head on one of the low doorways and Norrington would sometimes glance heaven-wards but O'Malley would be *awesome* in the middle of a naval battle and right afterwards and yes. I haven't thought about this at all.

3a-b. No. There are too many ways they fit and too many stories to tell and too many things that could go differently and too many conflicts to explore. I sometimes just sit around and wonder what it means to be a good man and a career soldier or a good man in a group that sometimes forgets you're more than the muscle or a good man with a ravenous beast inside you. And then I wonder about control and what all that fine control directs and what it takes to break it. And then I wonder about ethics and I wonder why so few people ever explored Gunn's feelings about leaving his gang, about giving up his role as leader, about the greater good.

I wonder about the greater good a lot. I wonder if Norrington's ever made a decision in good faith that's ended up being disastrous and how that's affected him. I wonder if Oz is still playing guitar. I wonder what Gunn did during that time at Wolfram and Hart for companionship.

And I love you lots, too. *mwah*

[gloss]

3a-b...
And this is one major reason I love you so much. You make it okay to think about this kind of thing - about ethics and loyalties, group and individual, about *characters* - in ways that aren't necessarily sexualized and/or squeeified.

In other words, you make me feel better and not like an asshole.

*more kisses*

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heh. I am at the point where I will do just about anything to think of characters in a non-sexualized way.

I don't know how to start the Norrington in Verona Beach spy extravaganza. Woe.

[rawumber.livejournal.com]

Ack, I fly out 6 am Saturday.

I thought you had Fridays off? And for the first time EVER I had a Friday off. POUT. I wanted to try and counter the madness of your family. I don't suppose you can hide in my luggage? Though my family is madness too. I am about to spam muchly on them.

Do you want five questions? I was doing that meme this week.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I normally have Fridays off but they asked me to lead a class today, so I was at work.

Five questions are good. *cuddle*

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

i am drunk but i love you and would distarcyt you if i could

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*snuggles madly*

You are much loved as well.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

and my potato is wrong.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

bad potato! no biscuit!

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Sometime this weekend? When it's good for you?

Call me, and I will regale you with stories about the condo board, crazy people, and calling people nazi's, that I can't put into print even under some other name.

I'm so sorry about the crackpot cures. This whole sitation is terrible, and the desperate search for a "cure" only makes it worse....

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Will do :)

And the search for a cure frustrates me a lot. But it's making them happy and so I feel bad making an issue of it.

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

ACK. sorry about the family woes.

Um. Um. Um. Look at this.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Awww baby sheep!

[softplaces.livejournal.com]

Obviously you've seen the trailer for Snakes on a Plane, but it's always funny all the time so, and lookatme which is a collection of old photos but is in fact very pretty. And I'm really sorry about the family situation, <3. I hope things get better for you, really.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those are lovely pictures. And Snakes on a Plane is, indeed, awesome.

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

*hugs and more hugs* and a little reminder that Monday is day-after-Easter-cheap-chocolate-rabbits day.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

That is true. Yay for chocolate!

[annaalamode.livejournal.com]

Cheez-its don't really taste anything like cheese. Yet they are still tasty.

I am being bored to tears by my current book. Why do I try to read fiction written before WWI?

Orlando Bloom's "American accent" in Elizabethtown is so inconsistent that it is distracting.

Yeah, I really have nothing. But I tried. Oh, wait...

Hi! I'm anna. I really like Gunn from A:TS, Firefly, The West Wing, Cristina Yang and Coupling UK. I want to be a h8r when I grow up. Nice to meet you!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Cheez-its = tasty salt in crunchy form.

And I don't know, I do my level best to avoid fiction written before WWI.

Is it more or less distracting than his acting?

*snuggles*

Hi, Anna! I am Sheila and I like people who are honorable and stoic and off-white. All at once or best two out of three.

[annaalamode.livejournal.com]

He acts?

OMG, you aren't one of those awful people obsessed with race? And, who, like think that it is an issue in fandom or something. Because, OMG, in Wisconsin we don't have any problems with race at all.

Speaking of honorable and stoic characters, have you ever seen the "Band of Brothers" miniseries?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Well, by acting I mean "Is hugely and entertainingly bombastic when he is at his best."

To my utter shame, I *am* one of those people who is obsessed with race. I can't help it! I know I am being totally unfair in thinking that possibly there might exist certain troubling things in fandom like racism and misogyny, but I can't help myself!

And I *tried* to watch Band of Brothers and it put me to sleep in the first half hour. Possibly I should not have tried watching it at 2:00 in the morning.

[annaalamode.livejournal.com]

Well, by acting I mean "Is hugely and entertainingly bombastic when he is at his best."

And is so attractive at his worst times that I think he may have made some kind of deal with the devil.

I can't help it! I know I am being totally unfair in thinking that possibly there might exist certain troubling things in fandom like racism and misogyny, but I can't help myself!

:sigh: Well, we all have our flaws and stuff.

The first hour of BoB is fairly boring. It only really picks up around the 4/5 episode. The middle of the series is just fantastic.

[ravenslost.livejournal.com]

Bless me mimesere for I have sinned.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not a nice person. Long story short? My ex is dating the crazy. And I can't help but laugh... There's a part of me that thinks they might just make it work. But there's the other part of me that is just hoping they don't manage to reproduce prior to the badness. Because I wouldn't want to feel bad about pointing and laughing when things explode.

Most of all, I'm just happy that this time? I'm not involved. There aren't enough prayers of thanks for that...

Yup. I'm not a good person. Maybe I'm just alright. :-)

[ravenslost.livejournal.com]

And while I grant that you may not be distracted by this? I find it hugely diverting, and amusing. ::shrug:: It's what I've got at this time of night...

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Alright is good enough for me!

*mwah*

[cunning-maz.livejournal.com]

I, er, updated my journal? With silly icons? Sadly, there are space pyramids, but no pirates. Or Jedi. *Sigh*

(Hi, new-ish. norabombay sent me.)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heee. Space pyramids.

Space pyramids + pirates would be the best thing ever.