( continues...) and Kristin are so well matched.)

Beverly! Being Beverly! Very much just as lovely in person as online.

P-C! Cute as a button! (I'd say hot like woah, but it makes me feel vaguely like a dirty old woman....I forget why that's supposed to be a bad thing, though. Hmm.) Anyway - P-C, all kinds of lovely on a stick, double dipped in lovely with helpfulness sprinkles. I quite wanted to keep him. Bless.

...and of course my first impression of Pete was that he was ADORABLE a smouldering hunk of butch and loomy manhood.

*well, no, 'kay, not true - had already met Herself when she visited the UK. And although it's been years since she posted, I still sort of think of her as a Buffista, and fondly recall saying "go on, you should write some fanfic! It'll be cool! Have a crack at it!"...ah, happy days. (Herself, fwiw, is way glamorous. I bow to her mad dress style skillz.) And a while after meeting Herself I met AmyP and family when they were visiting the U K, who were just lovely.

...come to that, I remember when Amych and I were going to write some Lex/Wesley fencing slash together, and she decided to go and do some research into fencing...and now she's the Queen of Fencing, and is married to a boy she met through fencing! Holy crap!

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Crap, I'm already thinking of a dozen other people I've not mentioned, because I am an ass and I'm typing in between marking and stuff. Ngah.

Also?

waves

Hello, Shambles! Good name!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILLI!!!

a smouldering hunk of butch and loomy manhood.

This ought to be his tag...

(With which, I am off to sleep the sleep of the just, having concluded my night of Crackfic Research, which is silly, seeing as it's Just For Me, and I suppose means I Don't Have to be Exact.)

(Tomorrow? I draw out floor plans for it.)

(Crack, like Bats, Likes Carrots.)

(In conclusion: mmm... bed.)

Oooh! What show?

The Office had a Diwali episode.

Because she's totally Mandy from Grimm and Evil.

HA! That's great.

P-C, all kinds of lovely on a stick, double dipped in lovely with helpfulness sprinkles. I quite wanted to keep him. Bless.

Aw. You were a pleasure to help.

So, I couldn't sleep and got up for some Internet time. Apparently there was an incident at one of UCLA's libraries this week in which a student was tasered 4 or 5 times by campus police. I saw video of it and I'm just stunned and furious. WTF is going on in this country? I need to do something to get my blood pressure down. Jesus.

GC! My fellow insomniac! I took a Claritan D earlier for allergies and then, without thinking, made the mistake of taking two Advil Cold & Sinus pills for a nasty headache a few hours later. On the upside--no headache anymore. Downside? I'm practically shaking from the amount of pseudoephedrine running through my veins. It's the only thing that works for my congestion and headaches, so I love it...but too much is a very bad thing. I hate this speed feeling.

Anyone up?

I'm a little insomniac right now. Hoping to get past it soon though.

If you wouldn't mind chatting for a bit, I'm on yahoo. I promise not to keep you up too long.

I'll pop on.

So, my probably-a-con-lady person, to whom I handed a wad of cash the other day?

I just checked her email address that I scribbled down (in the faint and forlorn hope that she was, in fact, kosher).

Her name?

Amanda Conradie.

A. Conradie. Which, if you have a Thai accent, is how you'd pronounce "A con lady."

!!!!

I laughed out loud when I saw that. That's a really nice touch. Fair play. The clue's in the name.

...otoh, though, a half-hearted Google of that name brought a bunch of links to South African wineries. And she claimed to be South African, working in the Wine Industry. So it is within the bounds of possibility that she was for real. I guess.

But mostly I'm thinking she's a 40ish fat female Sawyer-from-LOST. Probably. Who will end up being a character in my book, because she's clearly leading a Very Interesting Life.

Who will end up being a character in my book, because she's clearly leading a Very Interesting Life.

Or she could just have a great name so that karmically you were rewarded with ideas for your good deed *and* she could pay you back as well.

Still? You did something for the right reason and that makes you a Good Person. No matter.

Kristin, thanks for chattering with me tonight. Am in bed now. Going to snooze.