Billie Jean? Totes not my lover.

[amand_r]

1. I'm at the point with CoE in which I have my fingers on the Band-Aid, but I don't want to pull it off. I suppose that I'll just have to wait here, fingers on the plastic, until July 6 comes and rips it off for me, and then I'll be fine.

2. Last night, I was so excited about finishing my HBB fic that I even started to mention it in my LJ entry write up. (Yeah, I start them the day before and make my way through until the morning I post. What? I cannot be funny on demand. It's a lower level but persistent thing. Like…. cooking a roast at 200 degrees for like, three days.) ANYWAY, I had this whole thing about the HBB being done and wasn't that FUCKING AWESOME and shit, and then I flipped over to finish the scene, and out of curiosity I scrolled down and saw that there's HALF OF A WHOLE SCENE THAT I FORGOT TO WRITE. I just had that shitty bracket marker that I put in to remind myself what is missing. I was so sad panda that I went to bed in a huff. There was huffiness. I think the story reproduces through masturbation.

3. Some conversations then:

Amand-r: I'm a bad person, you know.
Arsenicjade:: um, no you aren't
Amand-r: give me time to fuck you over. It invariably happens.
Arsenicjade:: we've been friends for over ten years. and I don't really NEED anything from you, so I'm unworried
Amand-r: EVERYONE NEEDS ME. I'M LIKE... LIKE... HRM.
Arsenicjade:: hi dalek supreme.
Amand-r: HI THAR. PIRATE DALEK SUPREME.
Arsenicjade:: do you have a patch? a peg leg?
Amand-r: DALEKS DO NOT HAVE LEGS. Dude, if dalek supreme had an eyepatch, he'd be blind.
Arsenicjade:: a blind, legless pirate you say. awesome.
Amand-r: I HAVE ROLLERS.
Arsenicjade:: well, okay.

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Hope: why do people insist on writing Ianto as like, bashful and prudish when he and Jack are alone? I mean, no doubt they PLAY like that sometimes
Amand-r: yeah, well.
Hope: BUT IANTO WOULD NOT GO ALL BLUSHY AND STAMMERY AS SOON AS JACK WAS SUGGESTIVE IN A MILDLY PAST-PG13 MANNER
Amand-r: GOD IANTO IS FILTHY. THAT IS MY TAKE. FILTHY FILTHY.
Hope: I CONCUR.
Amand-r: XD
Hope: I think they are both just as glad to be shagging someone just as shameless.
Amand-r: Yeah, I think, and this is my theory, that Ianto was probably a normal sexually active guy with a few soft kinks (tie her up with nylons every once in a while, blah blah), and then Jack unleashed his inner perv.
Hope: Agreed. It's what makes writing jack so fun! no hangups! Of course it would be fun shagging someone like that. Why keep your hangups hung up in the face of that?
Amand-r: I KNOW.

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Amand-r: Did I ever tell you about the time Tianyu drained my motor oil into a gallon jug right from the car?
Steve: Nope.
Amand-r: Remind me to tell you of the tragedy on Friday night.
Steve: And I'm impressed because usually those things hold like 5 quarts.
Amand-r: It involves props, hand gestures and roflcoptering.
Steve: We will have to hear.
Amand-r: DON'T BE IMPRESSED. HENCE THE ROFLCOPTERING.
Steve: Stories of Tianyu and mechanical things never end well, do they? I remember the few times that I rode with him in his car, I thought "Dude, you're not helping the Asian driver stereotype"
Amand-r: HE USED TO DRIVE UP ON THE CURB. On the other hand, Mei-mei? Perfectly acceptable driver.
Steve: Wow. Yeah, my parents are relatively good drivers. I, on the other hand, am an aggressive driver.
Amand-r: DRIVE ON THE CURB.
Steve: Yet Emily still lets me drive. For how long?

For those of you who never heard the story, Tianyu tried to change my car's oil and drain all of it directly to a 1 gallon milk jug. When I came out of the apartment to remind him that we needed to be somewhere in an hour, I found that the entire left side of his body, from head to toe, was doused in oil. Even his hair had that wet gel look. I maDe him strip outside, and we had to throw all his clothes away. He left oily streaks in the shower and ruined my exfoliator. Haahaaha. Good times, good times.

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Carolyn: I TOTALLY rocked the shit out of that thesis.
Amand-r: THAT'S RIGHT.
Carolyn: It's awesome. It looks mighty impressive all printed out!
Amand-r: AWWWW YEAH. IT'S LIKE YOU ACTUALLY WROTE SOMETHING!
Carolyn: I know, it's crazy! It's like I was actually doing something productive the last couple months!
Amand-r: That is made of win. What are you doing now? If I was you, I'd be drunk.
Carolyn: Sadly, I'm at work.
Amand-r: WHY ARE YOU EVEN AWAKE?
Carolyn: But being totally non-productive. I have no idea!
Amand-r: OH, THAT BLOWS. YOU HAVE LIKE, THE ULTIMATE SENIORITIS.
Carolyn: Pretty much. Yet I still have to get a presentation together. I figure I'll start Monday
First, a super quick trip to LA!
Amand-r: YEAH. IT'S FRIDAY TOO. WHO WORKS ON FRIDAY?
Carolyn: CRAZY PEOPLE. Of course, now that I've accomplished, oh, reading stuff on the internet, looking up a paper, and writing an email, I think it's time to go home and finish packing
Amand-r: THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS.
Carolyn: It is.



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You know, when you C/P something a few times, it's really hard not to just keep hitting CTRL+V.

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I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic.

ETA: Okay people, DIALECT TIME. The word "close." We in Pittsburgh (or some of us) use it to describe the weather when it's warm (but not necessarily hot) and so humid that the air is kind of drenched. Choking. No breeze or wind. It's close here today. This is usually ended with rain, though sometimes it just cools down on its own. Close. Anyone else do that?

Comments

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I do close. Pittsburgh and UK = THE SAME.

The good news is, we shall be able to communicate.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OH GOOD. I was brushing up on my hand waving and TALKING REALLY LOUDLY AND SLOWLY.

WHERE. IS. THE. TOILET?

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

WHAT. WHAT.

YOUR ACCENT IS TOO STRONG. YOUR TYPING ACCENT. THE ANGLE AT WHICH YOU STRIKE THE KEYS.

ALSO. "TOILET" IS FRENCH.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OU. EST LA VACHE?

L'AUTUMNE EST UNE SAISON AGREEABLE. COMME AU PRINTEMPS, IL NE FAIT NI FROID NI CHAUD.

EHU, HARSUM VENIT VIR QUI FERT LOCUSTAS.

I THINK I JUST WENT BACK IN TIME TO LIKE. A BACK IN TIME PLACE.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

QUOI. QUOI. JE NE SAIS PAS CE QU'ELLE A DIT

It is true that they do speak French, in history.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

JE SEMBLE RAISONNABLE COMPLET.

I will be happy to use my English and Esperanto skillz in the future! WE ARE THE FUTURE, CHARLES! NOT THEM! ILS N'IMPORTENT PLUS !

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

It's always good to CLOSE the door, and take off one's CLOTHES when it's CLOSE outside.

...on the other hand, if you have _be_ verbs where you are, you're one up on the central mountains. :0}

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

BE VERBS? WTF IS THAT SHIT? MY CAR NEEDS WASHING. THIS BAGEL NEEDS TOASTING.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

the joke around here is that if Hamlet were from central PA that whole speech would boil down to

...or not.

damn I wish I had a bagel to toast. :0)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

How about Pittsburgh love:

How do ah love yinz?
Here's da countdahn:
5 4 3 2 1 jus' kiddin.
Ah love yinz like a Stillers game.
Ad'd strip and scream for yinz in da pouring rain.
Dahn the stadium, an' Primanti's too,
You make me feel like i got hit by Mario Lemieux.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

huh? I'm sorry, did you'ins say somethin? I was busy now putting EARL in my car and drinkin a glass of URNGE joos. I must go now and RED up my office before I go up the college.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HAAAHHHAHA I LOLED.

[kwanalicious.livejournal.com]

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[amand-r.livejournal.com]

COUNT DAHN!

[kwanalicious.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain that Tianyu drove so ridiculously so that other people would get pissed and insult him, thereby providing him with an excuse to get in a fight.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Logic flaw: maybe when he had the Camry. But he was obsessed about the maintenance of the Stratus. He was TRYING not to damage it. ALAS.

[sivatheminty.livejournal.com]

wait wait...he drove a Dodge Stratus?? Sorry everytime I see Dodge stratus I think of the SNL skit with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Full of win.

My asian side only flairs up when I'm relying on someone for directions. Then I become completely unable to figure things out on my own and end up doing things I shouldn't.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

It was an RT Coupe (http://chicagosportscars.com/cars/gallery/5699674.jpg), so yeah. It had all the Mitsubishi engine parts (they even have the Mitsubishi logo on the keys to the car).

I'm not sure that's just Asian. I hate when other people are telling me what to do when I'm driving. I have a SYSTEM, people!

[aliciajd]

It's as 'close' as I would imagine Hell to be today in Nebraska.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Gah.

[idyll.livejournal.com]

OMG, remember that trip to see Arsenic? Tianyu was a break/accelerate kind of driver, and he liked to wait until the last minute to break.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

WOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
WOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
WOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
WOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Close. Anyone else do that?

Yes. It's actually close right this minute.

I'm pretty sure it's from the Canadian side of my dialect, though people understood what I mean when I said in CA, just didn't use the term much.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I don't know many people from Canada, so I got it from Pgh. Apparently, it's a lot more widely used than I thought. VINDICATED!

It is also close here, too.

[snippy]

I use close for the weather condition you describe, but only because I've read it that way in books. I'm a Portland, OR native--we don't have that kind of weather but so rarely we wouldn't have a word for it.

We're like the "20 eskimo words for snow" on rain, though.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

My dad is a Portland OR native, and he makes a big deal out of saying, "it is, as your mother would say, CLOSE outside."

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

"4. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic. I will not work on my MANDY fic."

I want MANDY fic.

::g,d,rlh!::

~

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

WORKING ON EVERYTHING, WOMAN! HEAD SPLODEY!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

scrolled down and saw that there's HALF OF A WHOLE SCENE THAT I FORGOT TO WRITE. I just had that shitty bracket marker that I put in to remind myself what is missing.

heh, i totally did that with IBaP, and it was AFTER i posted my 'i'm done i'm done i'm done, SUCK IT!' post
and then i went to do a quick read-through before sending off to the beta and found {scene: blah blah} and said 'o FUCK YOU, me!'

close=yes, not a lot, but yes

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I know! Haahahhhaha. It's so unfair. UNFAIR.

It is no longer close, but I can hear the junebugs smacking against the windows. ::creeped out::

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

o god june bugs! they are so giant and scary
one year, they just all up and died on the same night and in the morning the front walk was COVERED IN BUG CORPSES!!!
walk to the car *crunch! crunch!*

it's not bad tonight, cooled off since that big storm we had yesterday
got a mosquito bite on the inside of my elbow - ITCHY!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

You know the worst place to get a mosquito bite? The arch of the foot.

I don't know what these are, actually, I think they're Japanese beetles, but I thought those were only supposed to come every 7 years. Whatever they are, they are CREEPY.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

ankle is pretty bad, too
like right on the bony part, cuz it hurts

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Especially if you, like me, scratch it in your sleep.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i do
with the toe of my other foot

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THAT'S IT.