don't be creepy
I kind of want to get Zack's motto emblazoned on a shirt or something. Or maybe on my forehead, so I can point to it instead of talking to people. Not all people, that is, just the creepy ones. In particular today was this guy at the pool who kept on swimming up underneath me, and then he'd turn and sort of grin and wink. Swimming up underneath me. Who does that? It's a community pool without lanes or anything - people swim wherever they want and in any direction they want - so after moving away and having him follow me a few times, I ended up swimming really close to this other guy who was doing the butterfly; I got accidentally smacked in the head a few times, but he was very nice, and also kind of large, and after that the first guy left me alone.
Also not a good conversation starter: "hey, I have a condom." DON'T BE CREEPY, PEOPLE GUYS.
Bleh.
However, I came back to bandom, which cheered me up to no end. New Panic! song! I think it's a hopeful take of the band breakup, but I do have GSF goggles on, so.
So I claimed that GSF prompt for bandom_hc in hopes of actually writing a GSF fic I outline ages ago, but have been having trouble reconciling the plot with the split. Reading the lyrics of the new song this afternoon, I totally figured out how it should work. Problem is: it's not h/c anymore. It's all about independence and finding yourself (and by yourself I mean Brendon, of course) apart from other people, which doesn't fit all that well with my version of h/c. (Not that it couldn't fit with h/c in general, but I turn to h/c as a sort of validation of togetherness and [the good sort of] dependency; mostly I use it as a vehicle for expressing how much the unhurt character(s) love and need the hurt character - which is a whole separate spiel, but the point is that it doesn't fit with the story of independence that I now want to write.) So I'm trying to figure out what to do about that.
In unrelated news, I made lentil soup for dinner, totally improvising and using all the random vegetables I had in my fridge (asparagus and tomato and carrot and pepper), and it turned out marvelously, all rich and spicy. I am trying to be more experimental with cooking this summer, and I am very proud at the moment. Although my bread didn't rise very well - I think I might have to get new yeast.
Also not a good conversation starter: "hey, I have a condom." DON'T BE CREEPY, PEOPLE GUYS.
Bleh.
However, I came back to bandom, which cheered me up to no end. New Panic! song! I think it's a hopeful take of the band breakup, but I do have GSF goggles on, so.
So I claimed that GSF prompt for bandom_hc in hopes of actually writing a GSF fic I outline ages ago, but have been having trouble reconciling the plot with the split. Reading the lyrics of the new song this afternoon, I totally figured out how it should work. Problem is: it's not h/c anymore. It's all about independence and finding yourself (and by yourself I mean Brendon, of course) apart from other people, which doesn't fit all that well with my version of h/c. (Not that it couldn't fit with h/c in general, but I turn to h/c as a sort of validation of togetherness and [the good sort of] dependency; mostly I use it as a vehicle for expressing how much the unhurt character(s) love and need the hurt character - which is a whole separate spiel, but the point is that it doesn't fit with the story of independence that I now want to write.) So I'm trying to figure out what to do about that.
In unrelated news, I made lentil soup for dinner, totally improvising and using all the random vegetables I had in my fridge (asparagus and tomato and carrot and pepper), and it turned out marvelously, all rich and spicy. I am trying to be more experimental with cooking this summer, and I am very proud at the moment. Although my bread didn't rise very well - I think I might have to get new yeast.