Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.

Xander ,'Sleeper'


Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 5:01:50 pm PDT #2164 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hasselhoff fears he may be the Antichrist after reading conspiracy theories about himself on the internet. The former BAYWATCH star confesses he's hooked on searching his own name on the net and reading the wacky entries fans post. He says, "I Google myself. This morning it said, 'References to David Hasselhoff: seven million, three hundred and thirty-three thousand, six hundred. Everything from me being a God to being the Antichrist. "I actually read it and believed it. I started thinking, 'Maybe I am the Antichrist? Maybe why that's why all this weird s**t that has started happening to me and women yell at me on the street."

Anyhoo.

Tomorrow I really should take clothes to a tailor and have proper alterations done. Not dry-cleaner alterations. Clothes reshaped.

Tonight? I'm going to watch the Stargates in real time. Sadly excited.


msbelle - Aug 11, 2006 5:02:04 pm PDT #2165 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I stand very close to sara on this matter.

really do not see that I have much of a choice in how I see things. sure it fluctuates, but I am mostly hardwired a certain way and the rest is a matter of what I am encouraging or neglecting in myself at the moment.

ION, have new hair and a mostly painted apartment. YAY!


sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 5:02:11 pm PDT #2166 of 10001

Aw man, I love holding tiny babies! Need to do more of that.

Thinking about it, calling me happy makes me question what happy is. Because, lord knows, I've got issues. I guess I see it as still finding joy in stuff.


Jesse - Aug 11, 2006 5:03:53 pm PDT #2167 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I didn't get to do overmuch holding because she was cranky, but still. Teeny tiny baby! She's just 7 lbs now at 6 weeks.


§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 5:06:18 pm PDT #2168 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I consider myself a happy person. Though I'm not happy now, and haven't been for months. I still find joy in things--it's just that my default operating level is severely compromised. I try not to let my knowledge of the letdown to get in the way of my good moments while they're happening. I mostly succeed.

I don't see it as related to my distinct lack of optimism, however. I try to live in the moment as much as possible. And I think I can change my outlooks, but it's hard work, and really not something I have energy for right now--my sister's suggestion that since I'm low-energy I should just not react to things that annoy me is weird--it takes me energy to maintain an even keel, to prevent irritation.


§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 5:14:52 pm PDT #2169 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Speaking of teeny babies. Cutie gawky pie.


Cashmere - Aug 11, 2006 5:22:40 pm PDT #2170 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Cutie gawky pie.

Oh, so adorable.

And no pregnancy belly for Gwen. Color me NOT surprised.

I'm not optimistic, but that doesn't mean I don't sometimes hope things work out well. I'm somewhere between cynical and realistic. I used to be caustically cynical, but I had to give that up, else I'd burn out. I don't know how Dennis Leary does it.


Jesse - Aug 11, 2006 5:23:56 pm PDT #2171 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Dat's a big boy!


sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 5:24:49 pm PDT #2172 of 10001

I stand very close to sara on this matter.

Which is probably why I go pollyanna when you are cranky, and vice versa.

Looks like the wee-est Stefani is a hurler (based on the towel.)

I don't see it as related to my distinct lack of optimism, however.

Since the general guidelines are just that, general, it isn't mutually exclusive. I'm not dealing with the shit you are, but lately, I suspect most outside viewers would describe me as depressed and angry. But I still say, happy. Because despite the other crap, it feels not me.

I can't imagine you not reacting to annoyances. I hope this doesn't sound wrong, but you are very exacting in defining and clarifying the world around and in you. You get something in pinning things down and drawing them out. I've always envied your energy in pursuing that. Me, I'm too lazy. I end up handwaving in frustration and writing it off.


§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 5:34:36 pm PDT #2173 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't imagine you not reacting to annoyances

Yet, at work, I'm assigned problem people because they never make me twitch. I have a bunch of friends who ask me how I'm feeling if they want to know--otherwise there's no way to tell.

And then there are people who think I'm hair-trigger with little regard for appropriate time and place. Or, say, here, where I'm less trigger and more splitter.