Whee!

People have posted things that I can use to keep me occupied at work, now that I've typed up Lidia's entire history from her point of view, not to mention her opinion of her clanmates, other clans, and specific others. (I used the Brujah page as a template.)

Heh. Opinions of people in clans, and then opinions of Jace, Pierre and Ming.

Anyway, onto the other stuff!

( Quizzes! )

An hour and a half... must... press on...

Oh gawd... when will I learn?

So. I'm drinking coffee.

1) we have no cream, or at least the cream we have has something in it which might be ice but which might not be and so I fear it.
2) the black coffee has four sugars in it.
3) I will never, never, never learn that coffee and I, especially when I've eaten very little all day, DO NOT MIX.
4) I suspect I will have a headache coming on shortly.
5) Damnit, why is it not Saturday?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! *flails wildly with her arms, ? and !* ((...that is one curved left arm...))
6) Obviously, caffeine bypasses the digestion system and shoots straight to my brain.

I need to find a good song for Jace and Lidia. Ha ha ha. This will be so angsty you don't even KNOW.

((more paraphrasing))

Alex: (in response to Patrick declaring that no one understands his angst because it is far too complex) Does your angst involve copious amounts of black makeup, angsty poetry, or playing guitar badly?
Patrick: Um... no.
Alex: Then you're right, your angst is far too complex for me to understand.
Patrick: ...does YOUR angst involve any of that?
Alex: Hell no.
Patrick: Just checking.

((end paraphrasing))

Now. Nownownownownownownownow.
What now? I'm not entirely sure.

((Burris interlude))

Burris: This is your brain on crack. "Hm. Well, this is interesting. It looks like there's some information coming in. I should pay attention to that. Yeah, let's pay attention to the reallyinterestinginformation that's coming in. There'sallthisreallycoolinformationandit'sallcominginsoI'mgoingtopayattentiontothisreallycoolinformationthat'scominginthat'scool."

((end Burris interlude))

I know such fascinating deviants. I mean, people.

I swear I'm not insane. No, really. I'll swear it until I'm blue in the face, kind of like Lidia will swear she's absolutely, one hundred percent not in love with Pierre. Shh, we likes lying to ourselves, don't we, precious?

The coffee, it speaks through me.

From Neil Gaiman's blog: So it looks like there will be advance copies of Wolves in the Walls at Book Expo America at the end of May, and I'll have to decide what I'm going to draw in them. I've got to the point where I can do a Coraline rat pretty fast, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to draw wolves at speed. Maybe a jam-pot. There are jam-pots in Wolves after all. I bet I could draw jam-pots like nobody's business.

NOBODY'S business.
If he ever uses djhenius, I'm moving to wherever the hell it is he lives and stalking him, no not really, it's the coffee speaking again. The coffee is surely an entity of its own with MIND POWERS. Hopefully not mind bullets, though.

Patrick quotes are hibernating in my brain. Help.

Coffee makes me paranoid, I think. It's also becoming an effort to speak slowly on the phone, and since my first few days I was told I speak too quickly anyway... bad bad. Oh well. Just have to concentrate. Concentrateonallthisreallycoolinformationthat'scomingin.

What?

WHAT?

"If teenage girls put on elf ears," I said today, back in the VIP room, pondering the unfairness of it all, "no matter how gawky they think of themselves in real life, they become beautiful. Whereas if I put on elf ears, I would look like a dissipated Vulcan."

And everyone looked at me and mentally sized me up for elf ears, and agreed. - Neil Gaiman

Damnit. Why is he so cool?

Fangirl alert! Fangirl alert! ((Fanservice alert! Fanservice alert! Fanservice alert... is in effect for the rest of the show. -Mgmt.))

It's a terrific castle, which looks like it was designed by Mad King Ludwig's younger brother Relatively Sane Prince Beppo.

I need to become a world-famous author right now, so that I can travel the world and have written. I can think of no better job, except possibly one where I get paid.

...I think the problem here is, really, that I have no talent or no drive, and I hope it's the latter because that can be fixed. Er... maybe. If someone else fixes it for me, because as we all know you can't fix your own drive because you don't have the drive to fix it yourself. Dear god, I'm rambling.

The next two people that post a reply: give me a sentence.
The third: give me a place.
The fourth: give me a time.
I will write something completely random, but maybe it will help.

I think I will bring my copy of Smoke and Mirrors to work tomorrow. Short stories and Neil Gaiman are both tastypants, not that stories have pants, and not that I've ever tasted Neil Gaiman's pants.

I'm telling you it's the coffee.

Maybe I should write a story about coffee.

More randomness...

Alex says: I think I fear your funny concepts more than Amber's ghouled lobsters.

Patrick @ Work says: Maybe they will discover true happiness in each other.
Alex says: Nah. Even if they did, Pete would find a way to screw one of them up even further.
Patrick @ Work says: Man, Pete will turn these two into those things you put in blenders.... uhh....frogs.
Alex says: *l* You put frogs in blenders? (That's what my dad accuses my bubble teas of looking like...)
Patrick @ Work says: Not if it makes you not like me.

Patrick @ Work says: Lidia has Mask? She can look like anybody?
Alex says: *nod*
Alex says: No, that's a bad, bad idea.
Alex says: I don't even want to know what it is.
Patrick @ Work says: Well, it's fun to imagine that if Jace were a darker person....
Patrick @ Work says: Jace: You can look like anybody, right? Look like Elizabeth. And say you love me.
Alex says: Lidia: Only if you learn it too and look like Pierre.
Patrick @ Work says: Deal.
Patrick @ Work says: Wouldn't that be sick?
Alex says: So~ wrong~
Patrick @ Work says: I'd say that'd be a low point in their relationship.
Alex says: I'd say that'd be a low point in their lives.
Patrick @ Work says: Jace masks as Pierre, but he doesn't have the socials.... So it's not entirely perfect.... They kiss, he starts to drop mask, she pulls back, says "no, leave it up."
And he shrugs, does, and they continues.
That'd be the best scene ever run.
Alex says:
That would be not only terrifying, it would be... something even scarier than terrifying.

Patrick @ Work says: You know, maybe we should focus on the characters building a positive, happy relationship as equals.
Alex says: Snerk.
Patrick @ Work says: I know. I couldn't keep a straight face through that, either.

( More song ideas )

...I think we need to seriously consider limiting our searches to the 80's. Nothing is more angst-filled than the 80's.

The problem here is, there is a lot of "I love her but she don't love me", but not a heck of a lot of "She don't love me but that's OK because I don't really love her either".

Suggestions from the peanut gallery also welcome.