I am sorry for not cutting sorry sorry this is too much of a mishmash to organize in my brain
Oh god, it's a One of Those Days kind of day to a ridiculous degree. I'm going to start with a random list of whining which you can totally skip over:
--We had (and still have!) no internet at the office for a planned 15 minutes that turned into 2 hours, which means I just dragged and dragged my time at the office getting no work done and leaving extra late (I'd been hoping to get something done once the internet came back, but since it STILL isn't back, that's probably not going to happen.)
--I volunteered to help out at a student film set yesterday night and today (a film based, apparently, on this short story), and I kept waiting and waiting for the producer to call and tell me when to pick up whom and take them to the set. I got home at 3AM yesterday, and might get home even later today, and she's only just now emailed me the addresses.
--Delicious is new and ALL WRONG, SO SO WRONG, god I hope they continue playing around with it and return the features that made it good instead of horrible and heartbreaking D:
--Bandom (Panic! :( ) boys are being faily on Twitter, oh RPF, why you gotta be like this, it always sucks when it happens.
--I have been trying on and off to Skype with west coast fangirls for like 18 hours now and failing with the timing.
--I forgot my wallet at home :/ which never happens to me and means that I 1) will be freaked out while I drive license-less, 2) couldn't buy a memory card for my camera seeing as I lost mine yesterday (thankfully with the important photos backed up), 3) can't gas up the car and get a receipt so the production won't pay my gas expenses (they will, eventually, it'll just be all :/ :/ :/) and 4) can't hang out at a coffeeshop with wifi while waiting till it's late enough to leave for the production set.
I will now undermine my own last point by saying that I am sitting at a coffeeshop with wifi and LOLing (for reals, even) at the fact that that sat me at a hidden corner table where they are allowing poor walletless me to mooch on wifi without buying anything, so long as like, none of the unsuspecting paying customers god forbid see me.
AND NOW FOR THE GOOD THINGS:
--Obviously, ha, the coffeeshop let me in.
--The ride to the set was pretty hilarious last night and I'll be driving the same crew today. I wish there was a way to force three burly gay men crammed into my tiny backseat to become my bffs but I don't really see a natural way of making that happen.
--I am taking a day offffffffffffff tomorrow oh thank god. Holiday evening! Yes please thank you thank you thank you.
--The Good Wife: Jesus Christ, did you see that? You know what I'm talking about. Also the episode was nice! I was a little cringey about all of the Israel/Palestine/Eli stuff, but I decided to just watch those parts completely detached and have no opinions whatsover. It might not be what the show's going for, but honestly, I'd just rather. Do that.
--RENT, BABY. Remember the whole social protest thing about, among other things, the price of rent? My (soon-to-be) landlord wanted to raise the rent by not toooo much money, but what amounts to 15% of the rent. It's a pretty crappy apartment, and one of the reasons I'm fine with that is the cheap rent, so I was pretty upset about that and dreaded bringing it up again. But I called her today and talked to her and we settled on what would basically be like a $10 rise, which I am perfectly fine with. SUCCESS \o/. That was the highlight of my day basically. My apartment now officially costs less than half of what my friends in the center of Tel Aviv are paying. It's not a perfect deal, but definitely not a bad one. (...we'll say what I say next summer, when I'm living in a place with no A/C. The universe might end up having the last laugh after all.)
--I cannot actually speak of this but. I have read the most AMAZING (Panic) WIPs in the past couple of days. That's all I'm saying, okay, I just had to share that with someone, but I am a terrible tease and hate people who do what I just did, I'm sorry.
--And then last night sunsetmog posted Shore to Shore -- Brendon/Shane, R, 13,500 words, oh my god my heaaaaaaaaart. A fic where Brendon is new to relationships, and new to being someone's boyfriend, and he doesn't know what he's doing. It's just-Brendon isn't good at keeping people. He never has been.
It's -- this, that is exactly what I love about Brendon/Shane fics, in a way it feels to me like this is what Brendon/Shane stories are all about, and they always feel in some sense realer than any other story or pairing you could tell about Brendon, and it's written so wonderfully, being new to this whole being in a relationship thing and freaking out that you're doing something wrong, and Shane is so awesome, and Brendon is so feeling-making, and now I want to go back and read all of my other favorite Brendon/Shane fics, a list in which this new story has won itself a prominent place.
Wow, I really don't have the right tags to deal with crap that isn't fandom, do I.
...okay, time to leave for the set thing. Writing this post has happily seemed to get my out of my funk. LOL GUYS THEY JUST COMPLETELY TURNED OFF THE LIGHT IN MY CORNER OF THE COFFEESHOP AND I AM TYPING IN THE DARK. Classy, Max Brenner, super classy.
(PS I should have mentioned, I am also happy for being in the middle of reading this. Happy angsty college Jesse/Andrew funtimes! If anyone ever asked me who my favorite romcom author/screenwriter was, I would say
harriet_vane. Happysigh.)
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--We had (and still have!) no internet at the office for a planned 15 minutes that turned into 2 hours, which means I just dragged and dragged my time at the office getting no work done and leaving extra late (I'd been hoping to get something done once the internet came back, but since it STILL isn't back, that's probably not going to happen.)
--I volunteered to help out at a student film set yesterday night and today (a film based, apparently, on this short story), and I kept waiting and waiting for the producer to call and tell me when to pick up whom and take them to the set. I got home at 3AM yesterday, and might get home even later today, and she's only just now emailed me the addresses.
--Delicious is new and ALL WRONG, SO SO WRONG, god I hope they continue playing around with it and return the features that made it good instead of horrible and heartbreaking D:
--Bandom (Panic! :( ) boys are being faily on Twitter, oh RPF, why you gotta be like this, it always sucks when it happens.
--I have been trying on and off to Skype with west coast fangirls for like 18 hours now and failing with the timing.
--I forgot my wallet at home :/ which never happens to me and means that I 1) will be freaked out while I drive license-less, 2) couldn't buy a memory card for my camera seeing as I lost mine yesterday (thankfully with the important photos backed up), 3) can't gas up the car and get a receipt so the production won't pay my gas expenses (they will, eventually, it'll just be all :/ :/ :/) and 4) can't hang out at a coffeeshop with wifi while waiting till it's late enough to leave for the production set.
I will now undermine my own last point by saying that I am sitting at a coffeeshop with wifi and LOLing (for reals, even) at the fact that that sat me at a hidden corner table where they are allowing poor walletless me to mooch on wifi without buying anything, so long as like, none of the unsuspecting paying customers god forbid see me.
AND NOW FOR THE GOOD THINGS:
--Obviously, ha, the coffeeshop let me in.
--The ride to the set was pretty hilarious last night and I'll be driving the same crew today. I wish there was a way to force three burly gay men crammed into my tiny backseat to become my bffs but I don't really see a natural way of making that happen.
--I am taking a day offffffffffffff tomorrow oh thank god. Holiday evening! Yes please thank you thank you thank you.
--The Good Wife: Jesus Christ, did you see that? You know what I'm talking about. Also the episode was nice! I was a little cringey about all of the Israel/Palestine/Eli stuff, but I decided to just watch those parts completely detached and have no opinions whatsover. It might not be what the show's going for, but honestly, I'd just rather. Do that.
--RENT, BABY. Remember the whole social protest thing about, among other things, the price of rent? My (soon-to-be) landlord wanted to raise the rent by not toooo much money, but what amounts to 15% of the rent. It's a pretty crappy apartment, and one of the reasons I'm fine with that is the cheap rent, so I was pretty upset about that and dreaded bringing it up again. But I called her today and talked to her and we settled on what would basically be like a $10 rise, which I am perfectly fine with. SUCCESS \o/. That was the highlight of my day basically. My apartment now officially costs less than half of what my friends in the center of Tel Aviv are paying. It's not a perfect deal, but definitely not a bad one. (...we'll say what I say next summer, when I'm living in a place with no A/C. The universe might end up having the last laugh after all.)
--I cannot actually speak of this but. I have read the most AMAZING (Panic) WIPs in the past couple of days. That's all I'm saying, okay, I just had to share that with someone, but I am a terrible tease and hate people who do what I just did, I'm sorry.
--And then last night sunsetmog posted Shore to Shore -- Brendon/Shane, R, 13,500 words, oh my god my heaaaaaaaaart. A fic where Brendon is new to relationships, and new to being someone's boyfriend, and he doesn't know what he's doing. It's just-Brendon isn't good at keeping people. He never has been.
It's -- this, that is exactly what I love about Brendon/Shane fics, in a way it feels to me like this is what Brendon/Shane stories are all about, and they always feel in some sense realer than any other story or pairing you could tell about Brendon, and it's written so wonderfully, being new to this whole being in a relationship thing and freaking out that you're doing something wrong, and Shane is so awesome, and Brendon is so feeling-making, and now I want to go back and read all of my other favorite Brendon/Shane fics, a list in which this new story has won itself a prominent place.
Wow, I really don't have the right tags to deal with crap that isn't fandom, do I.
...okay, time to leave for the set thing. Writing this post has happily seemed to get my out of my funk. LOL GUYS THEY JUST COMPLETELY TURNED OFF THE LIGHT IN MY CORNER OF THE COFFEESHOP AND I AM TYPING IN THE DARK. Classy, Max Brenner, super classy.
(PS I should have mentioned, I am also happy for being in the middle of reading this. Happy angsty college Jesse/Andrew funtimes! If anyone ever asked me who my favorite romcom author/screenwriter was, I would say
harriet_vane. Happysigh.)
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