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Lateshift versus the World

  
  

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Saint Keggers
03:17 / 01.04.08
At least you're still doing it

Well this is my first real painting Ive done in years. First one non-digital.
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:25 / 01.04.08
ok .have wine. am heading to bed to watch the daily show and the colbert show. g'night
 
 
This Sunday
03:29 / 01.04.08
No merlot - it's an empty bottle somebody put back. So, to the Pappy's!
 
 
This Sunday
03:32 / 01.04.08
Night, K.

And, what, nobody else is around?
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
05:30 / 01.04.08
I'm here! I had beer. The lock-out may soon be finished (more details to come!).
 
 
This Sunday
05:53 / 01.04.08
Yay, for you! Yay, for beer! Yay, for me! (What? I'm allowed a "Yay!" too.)
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
06:08 / 01.04.08
Hooray for everyone!
 
 
This Sunday
06:15 / 01.04.08
I'm all giddy tonight as news rolls in from friends; even the sort-of-sad stuff is all positive! One got her what I'm pretty sure is her first marriage proposal, another just left his abusive boyfriend. Someone's mailed me a batch of cookies. So movement towards an end to your lock-out can only add to the happiness.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
03:40 / 02.04.08
I'm giving seventeen kids a writing session tomorrow out at the international school my friend teaches at in the morning. I'm so, so, so nervous.
 
 
This Sunday
01:30 / 06.04.08
Shifting will take the pain away, lalala...

or, something like that, anyway.

I am avoiding work and eating chili.

Anybody around?
 
 
Papess
02:23 / 06.04.08
Hiya Deca! It's really a mess out there on the board. I am craving the sanity of the Lateshift.

Tonight, I am organizing all my papers. I have a filing system and a labeller - a f**king PINK labeller.
 
 
Shrug
02:29 / 06.04.08
Sounds like hell, Papess.
I'm praying for a Zombie Apocalypse (as realistically its the only thing that could save me now). Its the dark night of my soul and I'm plodding through an atrocious attempt at a thesis hoping to, at least, get enough written to make it look like I've made some kind of effort.
Bah.
Meanwhile my flatmate is across the hall making connections in the Irish film industry on Gaydar. Oh to be young, free and without morality.
 
 
Papess
02:51 / 06.04.08
No, no. This is not hell. This is awesome-lovely-calm. Every piece of dead-tree beaucracy that I file away orderly into neat and precise spot, brings me closer to inner and outer peace.

However, Shrug, you have my sympathy.
 
 
This Sunday
03:03 / 06.04.08
Much luck, former-Shrug.

I think I've finally come to terms with the fact that I am, indeed, the self-appointed caretaker of everybody I know. Unless it's actually something important and can't be fixed with a hairbrush, chicken soup, or reassurances that they're doing fine and they're lovely.
 
 
This Sunday
03:06 / 06.04.08
On the brightest end of things, I've caught up with an old friend who I haven't seen in awhile. She was going through a transition from health-paranoid young model to beer and cheesburgers and being proud of herself through being deliberately unhealthy and unfit to, now, apparently finding a nice nondestructive lifestyle to occupy.

So that little niggling worry that kicked up in my brain if I thought about her can now be replaced by some other little niggling worry I'll think of eventually.
 
 
Shrug
03:48 / 06.04.08
Ah, thanks, Papess and Decadent.
It'll be fine or it won't I'm sure, either way, etc.
Good news on your friend, D.
My worries usually wiggle or squiggle rather than niggle although once I'm sure I heard one giggle.
On that note perhaps I should log off and do some work.
Night errant shifters.
  
 
This Sunday
06:00 / 06.04.08
Clocks move too fast.
 
 
This Sunday
02:04 / 07.04.08
Clocks still move too fast.

How's everyone?

Anyone?
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:36 / 07.04.08
I'm fine, wrapping things up for work tomorrow and getting ready to be interviewed about comic book history. And you?
 
 
This Sunday
02:40 / 07.04.08
Someone's asked to see the big novel manuscript thingy, so I'm a bit squee whee yayippee! about that.

And fielding post-break-up phonecalls from people.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:44 / 07.04.08
Coolness! I should be working on turning my manuscripts into book proposals, but I slack on it because I am the big suck.

Hopefully I can get to at least one of them by the end of the month.
 
 
This Sunday
02:51 / 07.04.08
I want to have a book out so bad. But, never self published.

And I just found out I had two publications come out that I thought were rejected.

But, I too am way, way lazy about submitting or following-up.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
02:52 / 07.04.08
Greetings!

I'm waiting for the season finale of Torchwood to finish downloading so I can watch it with dinner, thinking about a random werewolf short story idea that's constructing itself in my head.
 
 
This Sunday
02:54 / 07.04.08
Hiya, Papers!
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
02:55 / 07.04.08
Good to hear about the manuscript, Dec. A friend of mine wants to publish a story of mine in an anthology she's devising.
 
 
This Sunday
03:06 / 07.04.08
Nice. I'm quite the fan of your stuff, y'know.

Other than sad-news phonecalls, I'm having a pretty good day. Interest in the writing, and a jazz concert this afternoon.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
03:12 / 07.04.08
Sounds like fun. I finally dragged myself to a movie theater and watch Juno before it left theaters, read a crime novel and have been putzing about on-ling far too long.
 
 
This Sunday
03:13 / 07.04.08
What did you think of Juno?

I liked most of the movie, but didn't find it nearly as refreshing as some, and the credit sequence tried to make me hurt myself.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
03:16 / 07.04.08
I thought it was fine for what it was. I really liked the lead character, liked that she reacted like a teenager, but all of the drama with the adoptive family felt...I dunno, a bit too "Lifetime movie" for me. I never understood the whole point of them.

It was also a very Minnesota movie and seemed like I was watching a movie made by people hanging out at Uncommon Grounds in Uptown.

And none of it would have worked without Ellen Page.
 
 
This Sunday
03:26 / 07.04.08
Pretty much all I seem to be watching are episodes of Black Books, because I can reduce them to background at this point.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
03:31 / 07.04.08
Off to bed. Have fun everyone!
 
 
This Sunday
03:33 / 07.04.08
Night, then. Sleep well.
 
 
This Sunday
03:40 / 07.04.08
Oh, why, why are all my drinks here nonalcoholic and full of caffeine? Or tap water.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:19 / 07.04.08
Yeah, everything I have here is water. Or tea, which is just water with some herbs in it.

I've come over all melancholy for some reason. Damn.
 
 
This Sunday
04:29 / 07.04.08
I think it's just one of those nights. I should be all superhappy, and in many ways I am, but there's that dank lurky ugh that won't go away. Possibly just the emotional dregs of listening to people's break-up stories half the day.
 
  

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