So clearly not the post I meant to write. This? Is my life.

[lady_sarai]

Dear Unasked for Plot Bunny,

DIE.

Or at least resolve yourself to being glimpsed at vaguely and with Jedi-like handwaves in some larger picture.

PLEASE?

-No love,
Me

Dear Memes I've Seen That Look Really Fun,

I don't have the time or energy to play with you right now! ::weeps:: Wait until tomorrow?

-Much love,
Me

Dear Ficathon-fics,

Cooperate with me and be kind.

-Pleadingly,
Me

Dear HTML,

DIE A PAINFUL DEATH IN A PIT OF VOLES!

And behave.

-Maliciously,
Me

In other news, had a very productive day while running on four hours of sleep. No call to sub, which meant I didn't have to say I couldn't, which meant the cable company guy came and found out that a fuse had blown somehow. He also showed me how to fix the mess my brother made with the wires connecting the cable box, dvd player and tv. So, go me! Also, I CLEANED. O_O The house looks like people can live in it. Wow.

Also, I updated my website with my latest fic (DC) and my Narnian yuletide fic and the cracktastic llama of a crossover fic-type-thing xenokattz and I can't stop thinking about. (Can you blame us?) Then... well, the HTML pretty much beat me up all afternoon/evening. Oh, and new layout for the lj, woot! It's pretty, from premade_ljs.

Took a trip to LL Bean and realized that I go there very rarely in the summer, but it's not unusual to go in the winter. Oddly. Must be the tourists that scare me off. Mom can totally get handicapped parking in the winter--although that's essentially useless, as the walk to the door is SUBSTANTIAL when her knee is bugging her. Bought a lunchbox. Was bit by rapid plot bunny who did not leave me alone for the whole ride home. Ate quesadillas for dinner.

Has an IM conversation with aradiachiba in which I lost two days and found them behind the peanut butter and cracked myself up when she began self-flaggelating herself.

Lady_Sarai: is today the 5th?
aradiachiba: aye
Lady_Sarai: okay, I had a sudden "wait, what?" moment.
Lady_Sarai: where I thought it was the 7th, of all dates.
aradiachiba: wow
Lady_Sarai: I lost two days!
Lady_Sarai: and then I found them.
aradiachiba: where was that?
aradiachiba: Because I've lost several days over my life, and maybe you could help me find them again?
Lady_Sarai: right where I left them
Lady_Sarai: they were behind the peanut butter.
Lady_Sarai: next to the pasta.
Lady_Sarai: cowering from the jello.
aradiachiba: damn
aradiachiba: I lost my pasta today....
Lady_Sarai: oh no!
Lady_Sarai: you must have some very scary jello.
aradiachiba: we do

And later, I asked a question she could not answer:

aradiachiba: ::mourns lack of helpfulness::
Lady_Sarai: fwuh
Lady_Sarai: is my noise of oh-stop-it.
aradiachiba: ::wails and self-flaggelates::
aradiachiba: I'm having a dramaqueen day, I'm afraid
Lady_Sarai: ::takes your flaggelator away::
aradiachiba: ::pulls out spare::
Lady_Sarai: ::cracks up at herself for the word flaggelator::
Lady_Sarai: ::takes the spare::
Lady_Sarai: stop that.
Lady_Sarai: ::is stern::
aradiachiba: ::bats eyes::
aradiachiba: What?
Lady_Sarai: ::noise of scoff::
Lady_Sarai: your halo is dented.
aradiachiba: I know
aradiachiba: I hit it with the flaggelator
aradiachiba: ::whistles::
Lady_Sarai: ::falls apart at 'flaggelator'::
Lady_Sarai: ::is too easily amused:
aradiachiba: Flaaaaaaggelator
Lady_Sarai: I LITERALLY sat here giggling and waving my hands in front of my face just now.
Lady_Sarai: Can NOT be more serious.

I really need to sleep now, because I may or may not get a phone call at 6 am asking me to sub and oi. If this happens, it might not be pretty. I am not nice to myself, I should have been in bed hours ago.

Dear Self,

WTF?!

Self-flaggelatingly,
Me

Comments

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

FLAAAAAGGELATOR!!!!! ::is very happy that IM conversation made it in the immortal annals of the wonder that is your LJ:: ;)

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

You have scary jello and you made me LITERALLY flail my hands around.

Obviously the only suitable course of action was LJ immortalization.

And...

It still makes me giggle like I'm 8. ::giggles::

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

I actually did lose my pasta last night. The box fell off of the shelf and upended beside the stove. ::sigh:: But yay for Hand Flaily. :D

Oh! I meant to mention! I like the new layout! Very nice. :)

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

*I* am scared of your jello. It drives pasta to suicide!

Thankee! I wish I knew how to make the entries wider but the HTML kicks my butt. ;)

And obviously, no subbing again today. SIGH. Except for how I got to, you know, SLEEP. Heh. and it's COLD!!

Also, I'm totally helping you slack off at work. See? ;)

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

It's some pretty damn scary jello...

::smacks evil HTML demon-monkey with a fish::

::hugs and hopes you get called in to sub soon!:: Though sleep is good. I need to sleep sometime soon...

It is VERY cold here. -21 wind chill!!! Eep!

And you are so not helping me slack off. While I'm talking to you, I've already done a complete assay for my boss, and am in the middle of developing a blot. Making pretty lights. ;)

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

LIGHTS!!!!

Also, smacking the demon-monkey with a fish? Ingenious.

And whoa, you can multitask! I've... checked the flist and the job search website (new opening for hall monitors in Bangor, woot. >_<), and decided to play with a meme.

You're totally better than me, you get to make lights.

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

Oo, Hall moniter... In Bangor, no less. I can feel your joy from here, let me tell you!

I'm not better, just really trying to prove that my falling asleep in lab meeting yesterday is totally forgivable... Not that I really think anyone noticed, but I feel bad anyway... My boss was impressed by how fast I did the assay, though, so I think I'm okay... :)

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

Dude, didn't you know that I wanted to use my 4-year BS in education to monitor halls?! Seriously, dream job. And Bangor, it's like THE place to be.

/sarcasm

You weren't sleeping, you were just closing your eyes so you could focus better on what was being said without being distracted by a little thing like vision. Clearly.

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

Bangor is liek so the place to be. Wicked. ;)

No, I wasn't sleeping. It was just a very long blink. That's it. Or wait, no, I was just reading the article in front of me! That's it!!!! ::headdesk::

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

All the joy and wonder of the science being put before you caused you to enter into a zen-like state that the unenlightened might misinterpret as sleep or long blinking. You achieved a kind of science nirvana.

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

Yes. I have achieved Nirvana. I am now a Science Sage. I feel sagely. ::sages::

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

::throws some parsley, rosemary and thyme at you for good measure::

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

::sings at you:: Something about a Cambric Shirt, ploughing the land with the horn of a lamb, and possibly sowing seeds north of the dam...

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

It would be easier to go if Scarborough HAD a fair. Will the Fryeburg Fair work instead?

Are we going to break my LJ? 20 comments calls for rum.

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

It would be much easier if there were a Scarborough Fair. Though I would settle for a Northborough Fair... ;) But in a pinch, of course, the Fryeburg Fair will indeed do... :)

I've neer broken an LJ before... How does one do it? And oh no! I don't have rum! Can I make substitutions?!

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

Well, my broken LJs usually involve fictional men in The Bar That Never Explodes Or Burns Down, but the general rule is that 20+ comments in a thread equals a broken LJ. ;)

And that calls for a mixed drink, and while the Official Drink has rum, I say we can make substitutions. Wine works, even.

Dude, we have to get together for another weekend because that was awesome. ;)

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

Whee! Only 3 more comments to go, then? :D

I think I really only have things like schnapps and amaretto and a little bit of flavored vodka... So it must be wine for me when I come home tonight. :D

We so totally do have to do that again! Hmm... When is good for you? :)

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

I totally don't have anything alcoholic. Woe!

Well, I'm pretty flexible. You and your sister are the ones with lives. ;)

::squishes!!::

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

Aw!! ::snuggles and sends virtual wine:: The good stuff, not the nasty muscat stuff....

Well, as for me, this weekend and next weekend are not good, but the one after that is free! :D

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

when I get up and find a calendar and stuff... I'm sure that will work. ;) Check with Theanna?

And wooooooot, the LJ is broken! ::twirls you!::

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

Aye, let us see when my darling sister is available! :D

And Yay!!! I have now participated in my very very first LJ breakage!!! ::twirls with you::

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

Yayayayay! ::twirls you about and starts swing-dancing::

=D Yay for the Terrible Trio and for broken LJs!

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

::swing dances you around the LJ world!::

And WOOT FOR TRIO TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and did we want to come down to MA again or up to ME?

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

I know, yay! I would vote for down there, just because coming up here means Mom and Ryan are also here. ;) Just sayin'.

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

I definately don't mind the meeting here. So much easier for me. ;) And of course, there's no Mom or Ryan to contend with. :)

[xenokattz.livejournal.com]

Dude, you and aradiachiba are one comment away from breaking your LJ! Go to it!

VERY pretty layout. After you grab one form that comm, can you adjust it?

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

I think it's broken! Woot! *rum!*

Thank you! And... I suppose so, but my HTML skills are woe-inducing.