Try closing your eyes, Allyson.
No, no, I'm serious. I've found that to help. Can't hurt, right?
What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!
'Just Rewards (2)'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Katie M - Jan 11, 2006 9:28:44 am PST #7487 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Lee - Jan 11, 2006 9:34:51 am PST #7488 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What Betsy said, and Katie. Also, when you really need a break from the work, try something non-computer, like playing with Ruby, just for 5 or 10 minutes, to clear your mind a little.
Kristen - Jan 11, 2006 9:50:08 am PST #7489 of 10001
Shouldn't be this hard, suddenly.
As you would say to me: You're thinking too hard and freaking yourself out. Don't make me hide the keys to your Firebird.
Betsy HP - Jan 11, 2006 9:51:38 am PST #7490 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
A head-trick that sometimes works for me: Get out a smallish notebook and handwrite. The short pages force you to move forward; looking back takes effort. Also you can't edit.
Zenkitty - Jan 11, 2006 5:09:42 pm PST #7491 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
F it all. C everything. M the next guy who asks me.
Kristen - Jan 11, 2006 5:37:30 pm PST #7492 of 10001
M the next guy who asks me.
Careful now. I'm pretty sure that's how Lisa Marie ended up with Michael Jackson.
Allyson - Jan 11, 2006 5:46:41 pm PST #7493 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I am desperately looking for my notes on an essay I am writing about Penlind, the chick who lied about having a dying baby at the Bronze.
I can't find them!
But while digging, I found my review of Out of Gas from way back when.
I forgot how much I hated Firefly.
Strega - Jan 11, 2006 7:07:03 pm PST #7494 of 10001
Hey Allyson! I got PIRATE STUFF!
And I've been in training for a week and am brain-fried and my phone is behaving mysteriously. But right now there's a wee little pirate-man sitting in Angel's lap, and that's all that matters. Thank you!
Allyson - Jan 11, 2006 7:12:37 pm PST #7495 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
AWESOME! Finally. Only like, a week late.
Angel would totally bone a pirate.
Strega - Jan 11, 2006 7:32:43 pm PST #7496 of 10001
Oh, it should have been here last Friday but [razzle frazzle UPS bastard-people]. You're way ahead of Mugga, who's been promising me a pirate book for months. Sob.
Years ago I got two of the Angel books (from the used rack at the library, not that I'm defensive at all) and in one he's kind of a pirate. Man. I need to find those and reread them, because they were so amazingly incoherent.
I appear to have hit the "mindless rambling" portion of exhaustion. Whee! Oh, and I'm taking tomorrow off, so if you have another Beta-reading spree please count me in.