sundries

Sep. 25th, 2008 01:03 pm
[personal profile] rm
- I have survived my first two responsibilities of the day mainly by being too tired to panic. I've had red bull, vitamin water, tylenol and a gluten-free brownie. I almost feel human. Now I can settle into the long haul of my last deadline of the day.

- Freelance writing loves me. Got $100 worth of work I can probably do in 2 hours or less. In case you didn't know, I am a workaholic, although I am trying to master those tendencies.

- Patty and I are having a date on Saturday. We're going to the museum in the evening and listening to live music there and having a bit of wine and cheese. It will be lovely because we are always lovely.

- I should get on this birthday party thing. Which means a) telling people and b) cleaning the house. Probably in the opposite order. I am going to be 36 a week from Saturday! 36! Cripes! Still don't look it though, do I?

- I have entered the fray on the infamous Doctor Who forums. Well, I just posted an intro post is all. Used the polaroid of me as Jack for an avatar while being very conscious of gender, status and desirability drama and things I have heard about that forum. I used to be such the expert and yet also so incompetent at playing the cute girl card on the Internet, and I have to say that even if I didn't come with gender issues, the pure ickiness of that bullshit would have given me some.

- Anyway, For something I have no time for, I am over-thinking it. But then, that's what I do. I used to say I wanted to be paid for being clever -- I largely am. But maybe I just want to be paid for being neurotic. Come to think of it, I also largely am.

- On that note, I am deeply cognizant of all the weird ways (aside from the obvious ways) in which I have privilege lately, and how I have designed my life to suit my Libran tendencies. When you live lots of different lives all at once you have to make decisions about very few things. I hope that doesn't make me sound like a coward, because I loathe that possibility for myself more than perhaps anything.

- Even my mother things I look like Rachel Maddow when I have short hair. I should be her for Halloween. Rachel Maddow. Not my mom. I am envious of Maddow's CV in a way that makes me melancholy over the desires I had for my life when I was 14. I wonder who I would have been were I not such an underachiever as a teen. Probably not Rachel Maddow. Probably someone more typical than I am or more committed to faking the normalcy. It all worked out okay, I guess, even if my parents still ask me why I'm not on TV. I am happy.

- I won't actually be Rachel Maddow for Halloween. I have no plan on that score yet. Heh, if Michael and I were still the sort that might possibly do anything on Halloween together we could totally have been Maddow and Olberman. God, that is the most fucked realization perhaps EVER.

- I had to leave fencing early last night my head was pounding so badly. I'll write about it later.

- Hewitt reunion dinner? $85 a plate. Open bar, nice restaurant, but I find suddenly I don't care. Not even tiny bit. Although I regret that just a little. Because it would all be so funny. They usually have a tea at some point though. I'll do that I suppose. $85 a plate! Dear Hewitt, we are only mortal and the world's finances are collapsing and the great men we are all supposedly descended from would surely be jumping to their deaths were this actually our great Society past. $85 is like a memo to a lost world.

- Meanwhile, whoever you are, I probably still owe you email.

- Hey! GIP! When combined with the icon used on this post, I am irrationally yet predictably amused.

Date: 2008-09-25 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redstapler.livejournal.com
I wonder who I would have been were I not such an underachiever as a teen.

Yes, this. This exactly.

ETA: Though I confess, I can't imagine you as anything other than the juggling-eight(teen?)-projects busy as hell person you are. I suppose there are some who have a similar difficulty with me.
Edited Date: 2008-09-25 05:21 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-09-25 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com
I am so going to try to send your birthday present on time! For the first time ever. Or maybe it is just a really late present from last year? Hahah.

Date: 2008-09-25 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] genders.livejournal.com
You look as young as the day I met you. I wonder if the fencing bod has anything to do with that.

Date: 2008-09-25 05:54 pm (UTC)
sethg: a petunia flower (Default)
From: [personal profile] sethg
"When Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for five years." —Tom Lehrer

Date: 2008-09-25 06:10 pm (UTC)
melebeth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] melebeth
I always take comfort in your workaholicism, before I met you I felt somewhat alone in my obsessive need to acquire work.

In case you didn't know, I am a workaholic

Date: 2008-09-25 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
I think I guessed. *positive thoughts*
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
I believe that you may be one of the bravest people I know.
It's one of your most pronounced, and most endearing qualities.

I am going to be 36

Date: 2008-09-25 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
So despite the confusion, the 4th is the official date, yes?

Re: I am going to be 36

Date: 2008-09-25 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
Yeah. I just can't count this week.

Re: I am going to be 36

Date: 2008-09-25 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
*blurredly calls up calendar,peers, counts with finger8 The fourth is a week this Saturday. I meant the confusion over the actual day you were born.
I is sleep deprived. (If you haven't admired my puppies over at my blog, you really must sometime. They are costing me a lot in mental acuity.);)

Re: I am going to be 36

Date: 2008-09-25 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
Oh, no we still don't know. It might be the 4th or the 1st. Basically the government isn't sure and my parents wouldn't tell me if it wasn't the 4th.

Re: I am going to be 36

Date: 2008-09-25 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
But the 4th is when you celebrate it?

Re: I am going to be 36

Date: 2008-09-25 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
Always has been. This wrinkle of it maybe not being the real date has only materialized in the last couple of years and has been relatively unsolvable in that time.

Re: I am going to be 36

Date: 2008-09-25 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
You are officially Heroically Well Adjusted.

Date: 2008-09-25 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com
Dear Hewitt, we are only mortal and the world's finances are collapsing and the great men we are all supposedly descended from would surely be jumping to their deaths were this actually our great Society past. $85 is like a memo to a lost world.

Best sentence ever.

I wonder if it could be repurposed. <---- this is now my response to everything. This writing thing, it is a disease for which there is apparentl no cure.

Date: 2008-09-25 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
If Ianto were a Victorian-era girl and Time was extra wonky?

Date: 2008-09-25 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com
What if veela were like veal?

Date: 2008-09-25 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
Best Question Ever.

We still haven't found the Torchwood equivalent.

Date: 2008-09-25 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
Have a care! As has been pointed out, by better writers than me, the cure would only remove the ability to write, not the itch to write!!! That way lies madness. And not the good kind. Or the kind kind.

Date: 2008-09-25 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marchek.livejournal.com
I should get on this birthday party thing.
Looking forward to it. I've been toying with evil birthday plans of my own even though it's not until December. It involves Barn Dance and Firefly cosplay.

I have entered the fray on the infamous Doctor Who forums
What sort of drama exists there? Haven't decided about the plane ticket yet. LAX I am very familiar with, Burbank and Long Beach are total strangers to me.

Date: 2008-09-26 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miep.livejournal.com
uh, rachel who?

Date: 2008-09-26 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
She's a host on MSNBC.

Date: 2008-09-26 12:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feyandstrange.livejournal.com
Those two icons need to go dancing.

Date: 2008-09-26 08:10 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] torenheksje.livejournal.com
I picture them dating, actually, which is something that I could only say on this journal about this person.

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