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Weird Dream )


I have registered for NADWCon. I know it's silly. I know this means I'll have to work a lot this summer to make the money, and make up for the lost work-time I'll be spending at the Con. I'm still going, and it's going to be totally awesome!!!
I've never been to a Con before. I'm kinda nervous. Well, I'm VERY nervous. But I'm also very excited. I'm going to get a book signed by Sir Terry Pratchett! I'm going to go on a trip and get dressed up and meet oodles of geeks!
Speaking of that, I need to compile my first official cosplay! Awesome!
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Woke up to a ridiculous amount of snow, with a fever and an eye full of gunk. I am SICK. I think my eye cyst thingy is gone, or at least it doesn't hurt anymore. But I have a fever. And a stuffy nose. Sometimes I cough. I've got a headache, but the baby aspirin is keeping that at bay (thank god I discovered chewable pills, no more will my gag reflex torment me!) Getting up makes my head hurt; walking makes me unsteady. And I've got lethargy ... lechery ... you know, there's a reference to Twelfth Night that goes something like that but I'm too tired to get it right.

The most productive thing I've done today is to walk downstairs to get a drink of water. 

I was going to get SO MUCH WORK DONE TODAY!!! So much work ... and every time I think 'oh, hey, feeling a little better now, I could start skimming those sources and making an outline for my research paper' ... I fall asleep again. 
I was going to get oodles of work done today. I was going to go to work tomorrow and make lots of money. I was going to get more oddles of work done on Sunday. I don't have TIME to get sick, I NEEDED these three days! I can't waste them just sleeping and sipping water and listening to TGWTG D&D podcasts ... 

But I'm going to have to. I'll drink more water, sleep a lot, and maybe tomorrow I'll feel a little better. Better enough to do some reading for class, at least, and finish up that chapter I need to write a rough draft of. Hopefully I'll manage to do that tomorrow. Right now, I'm gonna listen to the podcasts some more and (surprise surprise) SLEEP.

Today

Mar. 30th, 2011 09:37 pm
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 Today was ... horrible.
 

I didn't get enough sleep (again) and so I was tired all day. I'm getting a stye (or a cyst, I'm not sure which) on my lower eyelid. People are very unpleasant. My boyperson wasn't around today. I'm getting sick. I have actually set up traps in front of my bedroom door so I will feel safe enough to go to sleep tonight. I have scads of work ahead of me. My right hand still kinda hurts. At one point today I barricaded myself in a room. Porn is too male-oriented. It should be freaking spring already. Today I had to look at pictures of leeches. I can't decide if it's financially a good idea to go to NADWCon, or if it's a good idea at all, but I wanna go so bad so screw money and having to skip the Shakespeare Workshop and the loss of work-time, I am going to my first convention ever and oh god I haven't read all the books yet, when am I going to get to the rest of the books I'm going to look like an idiot and I've never been to a convention oh gods ...


I'm really going to get to sleep earlier tonight. That way, even if tomorrow is like today, I'll be able to face it well-rested.


I'm surprised at how calm I am about all of this. No crying or screaming or angry fits ... just me curling up off to the side trying to listen to podcasts and check Kink Memes and watch The Crusades: The Crescent and the Cross. I'm hoping this means I'm getting good at coping with bad things, instead of me being in shock or something. 
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I hath returned! (Yeah, can’t shake the Shakespearian language … I’m in withdraw: six performances in four days, dear lord, what am I going to do for the next three months?!)

The play was wonderful and six kinds of FANTASTIC and I wish you could all have been there to see it. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays (Macbeth is another, if you want a long rant, I’ll give it to you when I’ve had sleep), and now that I’m done I think I’ll write a slashified version of it … unless someone already has? Linkies por favor!

 

These next few weeks shall be spent catching up on all that luverly slash you guys have been posting for the past three weeks (OMG I’m never gonna catch up, am I?) Yes yes yes, I shall write and post stuff too! The Doctor and the Master kept butting into my head while I was in the play, and most of what I was typing when I could get to a computer was about them (but Oberon’s references to the changeling boy ‘stolen from an Indian king’ got me thinking of Mohinder) and I have been adding bits to the next installment of ‘Nightmare Land’ … Mr. Rolex, I have decided, speaks in haiku when taunting Martin. Blame my sleep deprived brain, people.

 

My left shoe flew off during the Thursday night performance. It went into the aisle thankfully, and the stage manager retrieved it, but I’m insanely proud that I did not break character or laugh or anything. Perhaps because I had about five different things to be doing right after it flew off (falling, sounding disgusted, warning Puck that Titantia was coming, striking a yoga pose, etc.) but still, immense pride.

A few days previously I spent at least ten minutes trying to tie the stupid little pointless bow/tie on said shoe. *headdesk* I swore in English (bloody, bugger, etc.) and people looked at me funny. When actors are looking at you funny, you know you’re in trouble.

 

Doing my hair was annoying. It took so long … and bobby-pins so easily bend out of shape.

 

I love the orange roses I got. And I’m pleased that my dance-partner came.

 

EVERYONE was getting sick, horrifically sick. I just couldn’t get sick because of the play, so I went so far as to hang my head out the window when getting rides from sick people on Monday and Tuesday. I also drank orange juice and Airborne.

 

My mother was unpacking Easter bunnies this past week at her job, so when she came to see my play and saw the scene where Hermia pulls out a stuffed bunny (during the ‘lie further off’ scene) she thought “It’s a nightmare!”

 

The wood-noises included frogs, which most of the cast thought sounded like ducks, and when my mother came to see the play she thought it was someone’s cellphone going off, sounding like a chicken, and got annoyed before she realized it was frogs.

 

The Cast Party/Anniversary/Director’s Birthday Party was wonderful. I have never seen so many people crammed onto such a tiny stage. And all the food. Once a lot of people had cleared off we could play the loud, happy-rave-music and funny songs and dance all over our lovely set. Several people got kinda drunk, and I danced until eleven-thirty in my sparkly shirt. I danced with the guy who played Theseus (who ridiculously attractive and insanely older than myself) a few times and that was wonderful (but I noticed he smelled really good so he might be gay *sigh*)

 

We began the play with a battle between Theseus and Hippolyta. Then we put a little hidden scene during the Fairy Pavane (which was fun to dance) where Theseus and Hippolyta come to an understanding and respect each other (you had to see it, it looked really good, though) which explains how they go from Hippolyta punching Theseus in the first scene to them jumping up and down about the hounds in the later end of the play.

 

The Mechanicals stole the show. Seriously, I saw the-play-within-a-play about sixteen times and I was still laughing this afternoon!

 

I’m dreadfully behind on homework (I should be working on that Crusader story right now, instead of alerting you all to my ‘return’ but if I don’t do it now it won’t get done.)

 

 

I swear I’ll get to your comments and fics as soon as possible!

 

 – aunt_zelda

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Ok, first off, The-Guy-I-Have-A-Crush-On:

*sigh* Today he looked like the Tenth Doctor right after he regenerated. He now has Ten’s crazy hair, but today he wore what looked like Nine’s sexy jacket (but brown.) If he wore glasses I’d have exploded all over Spanish class and aimisan would have had to mop me up. (Also: she’s taken to calling me a lesbian. I don’t know why, as I spend much of Spanish class idly conjugating verbs and gazing at that-guy-with-the-10th-Doctor’s-Hair. I retaliated on Tuesday and called her ‘Celery’ because her borrowed-jacket smelled like celery and she was wearing a green shirt. I suck at insults.)

Also, today in a class we were discussing why people do drugs. We’d arrived to the conclusion that we’re all a little unhappy, and that-guy-I-have-a-crush-on said, “We should have trampolines all over the place! Then I’d never go to sleep, I’d just say: there’s so much life to live!” Then he mimed leaping onto a trampoline.

I sincerely hope he doesn’t find my ridiculous high-pitched squeaky worse-than-Hilary-Clinton obnoxious seal-death laugh unattractive because if he does I might have to die of shame and hopelessness, as his dry-wit provokes most of my laughter-attacks.

 

 

 

 

Next:

Today I realized that the Sawyer/Kate/Jack/Juliet love-square of DOOM reminds me of the whole Spike/Buffy/Angel/Cordelia thingy. I mean, we all thought the Buffy/Angel and the Kate/Jack thing was meant to be, but it turns out that the Kate/Sawyer, Buffy/Spike, Jack/Juliet, and Angel/Cordelia romances make more sense, look better, and bring out the best in the characters.

Of course, now I’ve offended all the Bangles, so I’ll go hide before they team up with the Doctor/Rose shippers and kill me dead. *flees*

 

*returns to tell you that*

Yesterday I was so tired after going to the Opera on Wednesday night that I passed out in one of the back rows in the theater and didn’t move for like half and hour. It was really fun to listen to people arriving and greeting each other onstage, though …

A person in my house is SICK. I am drinking large quantities of orange juice and planning on a lot of sleep tonight so I don’t get sick (please, gods and goddesses, especially those of the theater, DON’T LET ME GET SICK! PLEASE! After we strike the set, you can smite me with … I don’t know, Bubonic Plague or whatever my housemate has, but PLEASE NOT UNTIL after the set is gone!)

 

 

I’ve finally done some profound musings on Doctor Who. I did it last night when I was trying to sleep after Lost and exhausted because of the play and … for a few seconds I thought I was drunk because I NEVER think like this:

 

The TARDIS and the Doctor changed Martha for the better, unlocking her inner-potential, whereas Rose was always going to have that hopeless, wide-eyed, fantastic-ness. Mickey had to see himself to become himself. Jack had to die to be born. Rose was there to heal, help, guide, and comfort Nine and Ten, to give them someone to chase after and rescue and laugh and dance with – she was there to doctor the Doctor. If Rose hadn’t come first, the Doctor would have been in no condition to bring out the real Martha. The Doctor and Martha doctored each other in the way friends do, though it was mostly Martha gently reminding the Doctor that there is life after Rose, however difficult that is to accept, especially when, just as you think the Doctor’s back on his feet and ready to dance once more, the Master (my only love, sprung from my only hate) starts bounding about.

Doctor Who isn’t just a show about bananas and buffalo and dancing, any more than it’s just a show about ‘that guy with the time-machine.’

 

(That’s all I got. Weird, eh?)

 

 

(And, that’s right, that song is stuck in my head again! … Damn, I lost the game!)

 
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*sigh* My dad is sick, so I won’t be able to visit him this weekend. Torchwood and DW recaps shall have to wait until NEXT Sunday. *sends father healing vibes and watches Jericho all day long*

 

Sorry this is late … then again, nobody ever reads these, so why should I apologize?

Also, after I read the TWoP recap I voted in their poll and I think Ben’s ‘man-on-their­-boat’ is none other than Michael! As long as he didn’t bring Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt with him, that’d be cool with me!

 

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Well, wouldn't you know it, I threw up AGAIN. Note to self: don't eat biscuits with raspberry-rhubarb jam EVER AGAIN!
But hot showers are nice, and now I'm going to get my relations addicted to Doctor Who because
Torchwood is coming to BBC America this Saturday!
I missed most of the Doctor Who marathon on BBC America today because I held a yard sale that went ok but could have raked in a bit more cash ... but it was ok ... I scrounged a bunch of funny books by gay comedians from the boxes and a copy of Wuthering Heights so it was ok ...
But now I feel all queesy ... ergh!
I also had a conversation today that's probably been hosted a million times before - The Cookies To Biscuits To Crumpets To Muffins Conversation.
I think I figured it out .... I hope ....

Ack ...

Jul. 12th, 2007 10:24 pm
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 Ok, I got home (AT LAST) got the stuff inside, petted the affectionate cat, and then proceeded to throw up more than I ever have before in my entire life. It was just nasty.
Then I discovered that, through a bizarre string of circumstances involving someone else's laptop, transferring Word documents to RTF, and plain bad luck, my vampire fic disappeared. This doesn't mean it went off with Claude and its footprints are being painted by Isaac, I mean it's gone.
Luckily it was only about two pages, give or take, but STILL. I LIKED THAT FIC. Sylar's nasty thoughts and descriptions of Mohinder can be re-written, but still.
I have no one but myself to blame. I should have e-mailed it to myself. I should have checked when I got home. I should have had unlimited cash to buy a new laptop (with Word) when mine broke on the trip.
*sigh*
On top of it all, I'm sick, the computer is acting slow and funny, and my relations are worried about my health and want me in bed soon, so I can't begin to catch up on the mountains of fics people have written. I barely made it through my backlog of e-mails!
(Fics to be posted and read tomorrow, hopefully ....)

Send me healing vibes, por favor! (You can tell I'm sleepy when I start speaking in Spanish ...)

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