Mar. 31st, 2009

Utterly random. I mean, you have no idea.

You know, I was thinking about how neat it would be to have a mini Groundhog Day scenario, in which I got a day where nothing counted. I could do whatever I wanted, then when I woke up the next morning no one would remember, and I would relive the day again.

Then I realized that I would probably just spend the day goofing off on the internet. Sad but true.

I'm finally making progress on the Merlin/Morgana fic that I've been trying to write. It's amazing how much easier it is to write a story once you realize what it wants to be. I thought it was supposed to be sparse and minimalist, no more than a double drabble. Turns out that the scene I was picturing wanted to be more than two hundred words, and it wanted to be just one scene in a longer fic. The more you know!

I have been having some very strange dreams. There was the one where I was vaguely disconcerted by the possible expired tofurky in my fridge. (Maybe it was planning something, I don't know.) Then there was the one I had last night. I was living in a condo right across from a Boulder restaurant called The Sink. My mother came over to visit and was really angry when she saw what a mess it was, because as it turns out, it was the condo I'm living in now that belongs to her husband. I could be forgiven for not knowing this, since it looked completely different and was a completely different location. Anyway, I ended up having a nervous breakdown in a bathtub (which for some reason was in the kitchen) in which I began to believe that all the characters that I write fanfic about were actually real. Then my mother came in and was all, "Do you really have to have a nervous breakdown now?" so I tried to stop... and then I woke up. I believe that dream to be a mix of a desire for hamburgers, writing fanfic late at night, and recently cleaning the bathtub.

I'd tell you about the dream I had while I was napping earlier this evening, but any dream after which one wakes up and thinks, "But why was the bestiality there?" is probably not a dream which should be shared with the public.

I am currently amusing myself with McSweeney's Lists. I particularly like Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis, Less Popular Alternatives to First-Person Shooters, The Lesser-Known Slogans of Political Moderates, James Bond Films for the George W. Bush Era, and Rarely Used Parenthetical Statements. Also, for [info]b_hallward, Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings About the Profession.

La, la, la, I think that I'm done.

EDIT: Also, Things That Will Destroy My Heterosexual Marriage Long Before Gay Marriage Ever Will. Rabid dogs with chainsaws for tails: Indeed a serious threat to marriage.

Jul. 31st, 2008

I'm an action transvestite

You know what I did last night? I got to see Eddie Izzard live! OMG OMG, so awesome!

If you don't know who Eddie Izzard is, you need to to. Run, don't walk, and rent/buy Dress to Kill, at least. Or read transcripts here, but it's funnier to see and hear.

My mom and brother went me. We went out to eat beforehand, which went pretty smoothly. (The forgot about our order for a while, but everything got cleared up.) I had an anxiety attack, but it was only a minor one. Made me very clingy though. Kept hanging on to my mom.

Mom decided to splurge and bought my brother and me stuff. We both got t-shirts, and he got a mug, while I got a souvenir program. It has an interview with Eddy, and it just further proved how intelligent he is. That's why he's so funny. Anyone can make a joke about airline food. It takes more skill to make jokes about Stonehenge, the Protestant Reformation, Greek mythology, the Latin language (oh, [info]tekararogue, you should have been there), and the Stone Age, all while making it both hysterically funny and accessible to everyone.

Also bought another one of his DVDs, Unrepeatable. Need to watch it.
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