Things that are sad, in an awesome kind of way:

My folklore professor was all, "Okay, group, write a folktale that fulfills at least ten of Olrik's Epic Laws."

Hooray! I thought, as I took out my pencil and opened a notebook. Writing! A traditional, original tale, I can totally do that.

"Once there was a young man, short of stature but kind of heart, whose dream was to make brilliant music," I wrote.



...I think I'm incapable of writing things that are not about Brendon now, y'all. BE SAD FOR ME.
So you know how after three months of hardly EVER exercising due to schedule wackiness and laziness, you should ease back in?


...apparently I don't.


*eases onto bed with heating pads, homework, and Greek*

(Claire told me they pwn people with LATIN, okay, there are things I can resist and things I cannot resist. Even though I have to watch large portions of it through my embarrassment!squick fingers. (That gets better, right? Right?))
So I just finished reading a YA historical romance novel called The Season, by Sarah MacLean--it's the author's first book, so I am trying to be forgiving.

Actually, most of it is quite on par with the more mediocre of Heyer's novels--the plot is reasonably intriguing, I quite like the characters, and it joggles along amusingly, on the whole. It absolutely is up to the quality of, say, Friday's Child.

However, she does fall into the classic debut novelist's mistake of EXPLAINING EVERYTHING. Usually at least twice. Show, not tell, darling, no really, it's better! I get that she's falling in love, I do not need her to sit and soliloquize on the nature of her feelings for more than half a page!

Also, I'm sorry, but your book is set in 1815. When people used the word "fans" in 1815, they were referring to devices for moving air, not to people who greatly admire you. Really. I PROMISE. And, I mean, I would have to check? But I'm like eighty percent certain that debs in 1815 were only allowed to wear pale colors to show how they were maidenly and shy and did not wish to draw attention to themselves. They did not wear emerald green.

If you are going to write a historical novel, either do some in-depth research yourself or, at the very least, have it history-picked by someone who knows what they're talking about. I mean, I was sorely tempted, but I didn't use the phrase "idk" in my academic paper this morning; it's all a matter of context.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!


BOB BRYAR I LOVE YOU MORE THAN LIFE, MORE THAN CHOCOLATE, MORE THAN SPENCER.


bb!Ray lipsynching? REALLY?

HOW DID WE LUCK OUT ENOUGH TO HAVE YOU LOVE US SO MUCH???



Dudes, even if it isn't actually Ray...it sure as hell looks like, doesn't it? The mouth and nose and hair?


ETA: Okay, I can't take it. Will somebody who has a twitter account ask Bob for me? Is it really Ray or just Ray as he could have been??

ETA2: *cough* Duh. Time periods. Never mind, lol. Thanks, though, [livejournal.com profile] vixalicious!
OMG none of you dorks told me they were OPENING.

FAIL INTERNET
So, my laptop is dead.

I don't know why. I just know it won't turn on.

Funny thing? My teacher warned us OVER AND OVER to back up our files to a separate place. Do you think I did that?

Don't be ridiculous. (I always back up my fic to Google docs. I think possibly this says sad things about my priorities in life.)

So my, uh, twenty-page paper that's due in four hours?

Needs to be rewritten. In that time period.

I got up at six-thirty to maximize my working period, only to discover that, hey, the school computer labs don't open till eight. So I'm an hour shorter of sleep than necessary and no further ahead on this stupid thing.

I hate college, you know? I hate me and my stupidity, too, obviously, but I really, really, really hate college.

Six weeks left in the semester, six weeks, six weeks, six weeks, six weeks, six weeks
...do you call it "jet lag" when it really boils down to having slept between three and five hours a night for the past six nights? I mean, technically, yes, I was on a plane and went backwards in time. But still.

So, hah. I fell asleep for four hours. ON TOP OF THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD. I am clearly made of win and also, common sense.
The only--the only--thing that makes me remember to take my pills is the fact that my birth contol is really time-sensitive, and if I don't take it within half an hour before or after the usual time, Bad Things Happen.

My prescription renewability ran out, and my doctor is two hours away, so I haven't been able to get it done.

While being unregulated sucks, the worst of it is that when I have no birth control terrorizing me, I forget to take my other pills, such as my sleep aid, vitamins, antidepressants, etc. etc. And then I wander around wondering why I feel like crap.

I remembered to take my pills, including the Melatonin, last night, and I feel like a zillion times better just for having slept soundly. Possibly this means I should, oh, I don't know, take my damn pills.

*facepalm*
Moment of sheer terror when my teacher announced that missing lab on October 16th for any reason short of death was going to mean death by dismemberment.

OCTOBER 16TH! CONCERT DATE!! MUST DRIVE TO VEGAS!!! NO!!!!

...wait.

The Utah concert.

*facepalm*
Tried to get up early to study for my first exam?

Slept through two incredibly loud alarms, and forgot that my phone needed to be charged and therefore keeping it where the vibrations would go off next the skin was completely useless. *facepalm*


(On the other hand? I have one episode to watch before I'm ready and raring to go for the season premiere in two days. Probably that should make me feel worse, considering that I was supposed to be studying yesterday.

...it doesn't really, though. Oh, Bella.)
DUDE.

...they're playing next to a pool, apparently? Ryan is going to fall in and electrocute himself, this CANNOT END WELL. I do not think Zack approved this venue!


Also, hey, does the Hard Rock Pool venue have assigned seating? Do I need to buy tickets with my fellow fangirls? Or do we fight for our places up close like in, um, the only venue I have ever seen rock bands in? (OMG I'M SUCH A NEWBIE I KNOW NOTHING. I DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO FIND THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS.)


In a sensible world I would simply e-mail my friend who manages a Vegas band, and ask her these questions, but now I'm all like DUDE SHE HAS HER OWN PROBLEMS and SHE ACTUALLY KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT MUSIC DO NOT EMBARRASS YOURSELF BY BEING SUCH A FAILY N00B and um, apparently it is less humiliating to post this publicly to my LJ and let her either comment and answer these questions or else ignore me kindly so that I can pretend she just didn't see it.

I AM MADE OF FAIL WHEN IT COMES TO THIS STUFF. I AM IN IT FOR THEIR STUPID FACES, OKAY, I AM LAME LIKE THAT.


ALSO OMG I AM TOTALLY POSTING THIS AND NOW NONE OF THE AWESOME PEOPLE I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MEETING WILL BE WILLING TO ADMIT THEY KNOW ME. EXCEPT SKIDS, AND THAT IS BECAUSE I HAVE TOTALLY LOVED HER THROUGH TIMES WHEN SHE WAS MORE RIDICULOUS THAN I AM BEING RIGHT NOW.


(But apparently taking my baby brother to see Panic for his birthday is a Good Plan, and also apparently he approves of Dashboard Confessional, which makes me, you know, happy for him and stuff.)
Dudes. I fail at anonymemes.

In that half the time I forget to be ANONYMOUS. *facepalm*

*uses totally appropriate icon*
Tonight I got back seven papers from my Anthropology teacher. They were scribbled with "good"s and "excellent"s, except for the places where she had to make red circles. Do you want to know where the red circles come in?

FOUR of them? I had done the italics in html.

FOUR.

It should be noted that of the remaining three, only one contained italics.

*facepalm*

I spend too much time on LJ.
QUESTION: Why does GTalk MAKE NO SENSE?

Why can I not tell the chat thingummy that I want to know when someone is online so as to initiate conversation with them? Why do I have to send them a chat invite in order to have them on my "like to talk to them" list? They're in my address book, but they don't show up in my--whatever you call it, the equivalent of a Buddy List. Why NOT? I do not want to send them ten million chat invites when they are offline. I want to KNOW when they COME online.



GRRRRR.



ETA: Lord only knows what I've done to any or all of the people I was trying to figure out GTalk with. So, if I accidentally sent you a nuclear missile...sorry?
I know I have to write this from ONE PERSON'S point of view.

THE ENTIRE PLOT FALLS APART, otherwise.

It feels completely unnatural, however.

*sigh*

Somebody send Twizzlers. I will look at them every time I need inspiration.
Dear Spn/J2 fandom,

I know in the past few days I saw a reference to a community celebrating Jared's birthday. I am sitting outside B&N and really in the mood to love Jared a lot. Can somebody link me to it? I can't recall the handle of the comm for the life of me.

Yours in Jared-solidarity,

Lu







Dear RL People,

I know that you either a) think the rest of us are crazy, b) don't get in until like one in the morning on the red-eye from New York, or c) are being forced to sell people cosmetics two hours away before you can get down here. However, um...I love you a lot? I forgot to go buy myself dinner and water before setting up, and am now hugely paranoid that the second I leave someone else will show up and claim my place, and I want the "number one spot" wristband to frame and hang next to my Nicolson's napkin almost as much as I want Ginny to NOT BE INVOLVED IN THE FINAL BATTLE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. (Please, dear JK.) So if any of you could be moved to pity me enough to either come hold my place or come take my credit card away from me and purchase my dinner for me, I will totally buy you dinner too.

Yours in hunger,

Lu





Dear LJ/SixApart/THEMAN,

When I asked my flist not to be asshats, I was talking to you, too. I realise you don't have me friended back, and that I was actually talking about spoilers, but still? Request stands.

Also, picking this weekend? Incredibly low blow.

Yours in disgust,

Lu

P.S. Have you NOTICED YET that every time you do this people stop purchasing things from you? Has that GIVEN YOU A CLUE yet? I was considering a permanent account--me! the extremely broke!--right up until Strikethrough. STOP PUSHING YOUR LIMITS, will you please, if we have to relocate we'll lose people and communities again.
I just spent twenty minutes looking for the O.W.L. exams.

In Half-Blood Prince.

*smacks self on forehead*
So, for my incredibly dull computer class, I am supposed to be turning in a zillion-page packet of work, taking a test, and turning in a final project.

I have lost the instructions for ALL THREE. I don't know which exercises to do, I don't know what I'm being tested on exactly, and I don't know what the final project is about. I have ransacked the house, turned my car upside down...I'm going to sit down and cry now, excuse me.
Should I go to bed? Yes.

Am I instead writing crack!Supernatural fic?

NATURALLY.


OMG I'm going to die of children tomorrow.
Yeah, you know how banana muffins have banana in them?

I forgot. *clutches chest in allergic spasms*

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