Hello all, I have some news from the other side of the world. Seems I made an observation that our Ms Fay has been absent awhile, and dropped her a note in Facebook to say hello. And she passed on this info, and said I could share.
I've spent the past month FRANTICALLY writing a novel (fanfic, but still) in every spare hour. That's pretty much all I've been doing - writing it out longhand, typing it up, sending it off to be beta-checked and posting it. I've not been reading anything, I've scarcely opened Facebook, and I think I've visited the B.org maybe twice, total. It's like being POSSESSED, have written 120,000 words so far - that's between 3000 and 5000 most days, sometimes more, occasionally less. Far and away the longest story I've ever written - prior to this the longest thing I'd written was 98k or so, and that took TWO YEARS. This is like NaNoWriMo Bootcamp extreme, or something, and it's eating about 75% of my brain at any given time. Um. So - sorry, I've sort of dropped out of all social things, pretty much, online and offline, whilst frantically writing my socks off.
I'm hoping that once I've finished this, I'll be able to turn my attention to my proposed original fic notion and just get the hell on with writing that, rather than being all procrastinaty. Seriously - I've never done NaNoWriMo because I felt sure I'd sabotage myself and be all procrastinaty, and yet here I am doing more than double that wordcount already. CRAZINESS!!!
Should be dropping back into the worl within a couple of weeks, all being well.
Oh, god, please name your dog Parker Posey von Pilsner.
I love it so much.
Thanks fo r contacting Fay . I was just thinking about her
I believe in renaming shelter animals because new name = new life but it sounds like Posey has had a pretty OK life so far.
Oh, god, please name your dog Parker Posey von Pilsner.
this
I always think of Parker Posey when I hear "Posey".
Me too.
So, fun story about my current crush, who shall be called Chorus 3, since that was her role in the play I got her cast in. We had made plans with a fellow castmate, let's call her Kitty, to go see our director tomorrow night at a film festival gala opening. She was also supposed to come see
Antigone
tonight, but she got sick.
Anyway, after the show, I was talking with Kitty about the party and told her that Chorus 3 was sick and maybe she wouldn't be able to come. She said she was bringing a crew, including a guy who she thought would find Chorus 3 attractive and whom Chorus 3 would find attractive. "They're totally gonna do it!" she said excitedly.
I didn't say anything.
Later on, however, she decided to go off with the bartender, and before she left, I pulled her aside and said, "In that vein, I want to redo a conversation from earlier."
"Okay," she said, confused.
"Say that thing about the guy who'll find Chorus 3 attractive and she'll find him attractive."
I wanted her to say the line again so I could respond to it. "Yeah," she said, cluelessly, "[Dude's name]."
"What I should have said was, 'I'm already coming; you don't need to bring someone else.'"
Realization dawned. "You like Chorus 3?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"Really."
"FUCK!" she said, half "Oh, what have I done" and half "You have ruined my perfect plan." Possibly more of the latter, honestly. "He really needs to get laid," she whispered.
"So do I!" I whispered back, because my true feelings and motives would take too many words and besides, it got the point across.
"Okay," she said. "You've got dibs."
"I've got dibs," I repeated.
I simultaneously feel like an adult and like I'm in junior high.
You truly are a rockstar PC. I'm applauding your courage, clarity and chutzpah!
Much more adult, I'd say. Junior high would have involved a major sulk. Instead, you stood your ground and staked your claim in circumstances, under which, lesser men would have paled.
I hope that it comes to pass that in some future time, you are able to share that story with C3 as she gazes on you fondly.
Well done, Sir. Well done!
Nicely done! I never have the guts to admit to liking anyone to anyone (and there have been some pretty awesome couldn't have been scripted any better moments in my life where I STILL said nothing) so I also totally admire your courage!!
Also, a boy involved in theater who actually likes girls? We, uh, could have used you around our theater department.
Also, a boy involved in theater who actually likes girls? We, uh, could have used you around our theater department.
Hello! I'm right here. Also needs to get laid. :: sigh :: I'll just sit over here in the NGA bench.... some more... :: sigh ::
Haha. I think the theater department at my university was less straight than most... I went to university in a fairly conservative area, and the school I was at was the most liberal and had the best theater department (in a small area), I think we attracted every gay guy in a hundred mile radius. So I basically knew like six straight guys all through college, as I didn't really hang out much with the non-theater crowd. Those six straights were, of course, always taken by girls who were clearly not me.
Oddly, our SMIT (straight men in theatre) contingent is rather huge. Not to the point of "you're not running people off with shotguns, right?" but definitely majority to a notable degree.
