03 May 2005 @ 01:06 pm
"... then why has my head gone numb?"  
Ugh. I think I'm coming down with something. From the giddy heights of my year and two thirds at nursing college I think that this something is either the Dreaded Lurgi, mange or Foaming Brain Fever. Is everyone getting sick or something? is it possible to contract colds off the various denizens of the Internet? If it isn't, then why is every other person on my Friends list also getting sick?

I'm hungry. But I'm also nauseous. This is not a good combination. Do I eat something and stop myself feeling hungry, but run the risk of being sick, or do I not eat something, feel so hungry I could eat my own arm off, but not run the risk of having to sequester myself in the nearest toilet at some point this afternoon?

Guess it wasn't just the exams after all - I knew I was getting sick.

I'm very tempted to stay home tomorrow. I feel drunk but I haven't been drinking, which is normally a sure sign that I am really not feeling well. But on the other hand, I might not.

I want to post for [livejournal.com profile] isotype but I'm not sure what to do. Thinking of starting a blistering argument, or at the very least leading into a very long and pissy rant. I've got a couple of drabbles I need to post for [livejournal.com profile] 101_ficlets but it remains to be seen if my disc will work (I feel kind of out of the loop with that community. Already. Yay, go me). I have 100 ficlets still to write. I have an essay to write at some point. I want to get on with 'Seuche'. I want to start my AU. I have too much to write and my head is about to explode with dizziness and general unwellitude. I know unwellitude isn't a word but god damn it, it bloody well should be.

Anyway: in college at the moment. My landlady's son ran off with the monitor, again. Apparently actually buying his own monitor instead of constantly walking off with the one downstairs is far too revolutionary a concept for him to handle. So no Internet joy for me for the last two days. This makes me feel twitchy, because I am sad and pathetic. Still, I've been using the time in a mildly productive way, so it could be worse.

There was something else I wanted to say, wasn't there?

Anyway... today seeth the start of the Public Health module. I'm interested in this (which puts me in the minority amongst my classmates) but sadly I am just feeling far too brain-bombed to really appreciate this module so far. It does not exactly help matters that the lecture theater is overheated and it makes me feel like going to sleep. I feel like going to sleep anyway, so this is Not Good. Pity because deep down I am interesting in public health. I just can't seem to make myself feel it.

I only wish I knew why I was feeling so lowered. Maybe it's because I'm sick, maybe it's the post-exam hangover. Maybe it's the lack of internet access. Or both. Why is it that I feel great after finishing my exams then absolutely wiped out afterward?

Damn, I hope I get over this soon, or I might start writing even more fiendish angst than I have been doing before. I'm not talking the nice, manageable kind of angst I've been writing to date - I'm talking Extreme Deathfic and torment, which I don't want to do because that would just be too, too much. I've heard about a couple of these Extreme Deathfics and let me just say, that kind of torture is completely out of my league. Completely. I just could not do it no matter how angsty I was feeling. I know I like ken hurting but I don't like him hurting that much.

In which case - worse - this might mean that there is but one outlet for my depression and angst. I might get so down and fed up with my life that I decide there's only one way to make myself feel better - I will start writing Mary Sues to fix all my insecurities.

Yes. I might even showing up in my favorite fictional universe (ie: Weiss), becoming their mysterious new teammate under mysterious circumstances of mystery, unleashing plot contrivances a go-go by suggesting that a bunch of highly-trained assassins can't spot the similarities between my cute, fiesty yet angstridden normal self and my sultry, fiesty yet angstridden secret agent self because I have changed my clothes in the interim, being deeply beautiful, charming, lovely and wonderful, winning the heart of the guy of my dreams (ie: Not Ken - even a la Sue I'd be setting him up with Youji perhaps by locking them in the store cupboard together) and calling myself 'Calico'...

... Ugh. No. No, I will never, ever, ever get that depressed.

Now I guess I must go - class starts in five. I still feel sick. Oh, this is going to be fun.
 
 
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[identity profile] angstchan.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2005 12:22 am (UTC)
Don't feel out of the loop. There isn't much of a loop to feel in. I haven't checked the com yet, but I haven't gotten any emails about comments or anything. When you get a chance, I'm curious to see what you think about my stuff and about Kari's stuff. If you like Kari's, especially, please comment to tell her it's good. I think she's a little self-conscious about her work because she's been posting it in other places to get positive feedback.

Hope you get the monitor back and feel better soon! ; ;
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2005 11:58 am (UTC)
Still no sign of the monitor, so boo. I only get a short lunch period in which do catch up on my Internet (and, incidentally, to not eat anything at all) so I have no idea when I'll be able to do a concerted 'sit down and read fics and comment on them' session. If I'm not feeling too headfucked after my week of college, maybe I'll stay behind on Friday. If I don't have the screen back by then. Boo.

I feel a little better today than I did yesterday. I ended up skipping out on afternoon college after all. I just went home and I think I died. I seriously slept from mid afternoon until around about... mmm, half past eight? Not good, I'll admit. Damn 'feeling sick'.

Thanks for the good wishes. Hope life's still trreating you okay... :)
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[identity profile] vermachtnis.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2005 04:34 am (UTC)
Oh lord, codename 'Calico?' Or would that be your real name? If you get to be 'Calico', can I just skip the whole breed-name thing all together and call myself 'Kitten?' Or how 'bout 'Tiger?'

[locking them in the store cupboard seems like a perfectly perfect idea to me]

I really hope you feel better soon. Perhaps sickness can spread over the internet. Or perhaps it's just the season.

[as long as you're not writing the Extreme Torture Ken! fics in the vein of the one I spoke of... which, by the way, I did try to hunt down, but the site I had gotten it from originally has shut down and I can't remember the author's name. Pity, that. Not really, though.]

And one would think that buying a monitor would be easier than lugging one back and forth. One can get pretty inexpensive monitors these days. But hey, that's just me and my crazy ideas again. I sympathize with the internet-withdrawls. I get pretty bad without mine.

Hopefully things will start looking up, hm?
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2005 12:05 pm (UTC)
It'd be the codename. Following my Adventures In Mary Sue Fiction I have come to the horrifying and sickening conclusion that most Mary Sues choose stupid assassin codenames if they decide to join Weiss (poor boys). And yup, you guessed it, 'Calico' is the one I see most often, perhaps because these stupid ficcers think it sounds pretty.

Too bad it's a description of a type of coat color, not the name of an actual cat breed. You might as well call yourself Tabby or Seal-Pointed or Black With White Splotches.

Yes, that was the other kind of Extreme Deathfic I meant, but fear not - there is no way I could actually sit down and write something like that. I would have to give up, or tear my own eyes out, or die of guilt. 'A step forward...' is as far as I'll go and that was quite far enough, thank you oh so much. I may one day write another deathfic - I want to do one about what happens afterward - but I'll need Ken alive and unmaimed for that. I think it's a blessing in disguise that you can't remember that author's name - I think karma is telling you to Steer Well Clear of that thing.

(And all hail to the stock cupboard. I can feel a stupid comedy fic coming along those lines...)
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[identity profile] vermachtnis.livejournal.com on May 5th, 2005 10:19 pm (UTC)
'Calico.' Bweh heh heh. That's just retarted. Really. I'd like to see a Mary Sue have the codename 'Black With White Splotches.' They could call her 'Splotchy' for short.

Scratch that- what I'd really like to see is a Mary Sue with the codename 'Tomcat.'

I don't think I'd ever be able to write something like that either. Angst, yes. Torture, no. Graphic, step by step dismemberment of my favorite character? Can I get a resounding 'Hell no!' I think I can. And I agree with you on the karma- I'm listening to it, too, despite the call of the badfic.

[I'm all for a stupid comedy fic. Especially one involving Ken, Youji, and a cupboard. Really.]
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on May 6th, 2005 12:29 pm (UTC)
Yeah, tell me about it. 'Calico'? The distressing thing is, it's a real common name for OCs. Mary Sues and one-note random Kritiker background characters both. Which leads me to guess that a lot of people think that 'Calico' really is a breed of cat and not merely a generic description for a kind of coat color. But it's not as bad as the OC whose full name was 'Tabitha' and who - naturally - picked up the nickname 'Tabby'. Now that's just lame. Not to mention worryingly generic for a Mary Sue.

I think the best condename for a Mary Sue would be 'Poison Ivy'. You should know better than to touch her, and she's so clingy she'll strangle you to death. Apt.

Don't even think about writing something like that. The 'graphic' really has the power to disturb me muchly. I like a bit of angst as much as the next girl but there's a difference between liking to angst several shades of Hell out of a character and wanting to graphically and sadistically torture and kill them. Hell No indeed. And you must heed the call of Karma. Just say no to badfic and all related mental torment. The Gods are telling you that you do not need to read that damn fic again. Once was once too often.

Yup, I can feel a fic like that coming. It'd have to be pretty short, but hey. Youji, Ken and a cupboard with a conveniently temperamental lock = joy in a fanfic box.

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[identity profile] vermachtnis.livejournal.com on May 7th, 2005 07:02 am (UTC)
Yeah, that does lead one to believe that people really do think 'Calico' is a breed name. Which brings me back to my running theory that if people simply took time to maybe do a little research on what they were writting, the world would be a lot better off- well, at least the Weiss section of it.

'Poison Ivy' would be a fantastic codename for a Mary Sue. Too bad only us haters realize that.

I wouldn't be able to bring myself to do such a thing. It just turns my stomach; I can't see the fun in writing something like that, and I write for fun. Once was too often- honestly, it was probably two years ago or more, and I can still remember vivid scenes. Just can't scrub my brain clean.

Joy in a fanfic box indeed! I snicker just thinking about the possibilities.
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on May 7th, 2005 08:53 pm (UTC)
Research? Research is for losers. Or I'd guess that was how the average badfic perpetrator saw actually taking the time to actually look things up for their fanfics, anyway. If I was going to Sue myself up (not that I ever would) I'd go looking for less common cat breeds. With the exception of Manx and Persia, most of the cat breeds used for codenames aren't exactly all that well-known. I mean, I'd never heard of a Birman before I got into WK, and I thought Siberian was only used to refer to tigers.

If 'Calico' is a breed name, then so is 'Black With White Splotches'. My landlady's cat is a pedigree Black With White Splotches.

Yeah, I agree with you on the writing for fun thing. I couldn't see the fun in that either. It's not fun at all - it's just plain sadistic and done for the hell of it, which makes the scene both gratuitous and lame. It's enough to make me want to write as much Cute stuff for Ken as I can stand before my brain gives out. Just in reaction. He does not deserve that. And if you still remember it that vividly, I begin to see the attraction of Plot Contrivance Amnesia.

Heh. I started it. It's stupid. It's fluffy. It's going to have a kiss in it. See? I said that fic made me want to be cute. ^^
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