Did the human race wake up on the wrong side of the bed today??

[matrixrefugee]

Removed one entry due to whining.

All I'm going to say is, did a crankiness virus escape from a CDC lab? I've been seeing a lot of whininess around and it's starting to wear down the Zen-like calm I've been trying to cultivate. I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but it is making it hard to type up some of the Valentine's fics I'm working on.

I won't say more about the whining: I'm going to talk about the cosmic irony that is a girl who hated Valentine's Day with a vengeance, due to a bad relationship and a horrible dust-up that happened on Valentine's Day due to that bad relationship, even has an Anti-Valentine's Day icon on her LJ (which I'm trying to find a more positive replacement for. Any suggestions??), who is now writing Valentine's Day fanfics! (Well, ficlets...) How did I get from there to here...? I credit it to the fact that among the collective of characters I have "living" as it were in a big rambling Queen Anne-style mansion (think along the lines of the house in "The Addams Family") in the creativity centers of my brain, I have more than a few hopeless romantics (including, but not limited to Frank Sweitz, my "A.I." OMC, and to some extent, a certain bouncy shinigami with violet eyes). I guess they finally won the battle for my sentimentality. Re: the headspace-dwellers, I'm tempted to put together a weekly rundown of some of the craziness they seem to come up with which is too silly not to post, but which will never make it into a fanfiction:

--Hal McGeever trying to find out who keeps eating his chips
--The day we had Soul Reapers running down the hallway for some inexplicable reason
--Frank running out of clean shirts and stealing/borrowing shirts from other guys' rooms (including the Merovingian's room... Eek.)
--Fuyutsuki's abortive attempts at finding a quiet place to read his mail and drink his tea in the morning
--Hal and Muraki "not flirting with each other"
--Enniel Prussot deciding to trim his hair, thus making him look even more like an Expy of a certain crooked energy vampire

Comments

[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not sure if it' s because we're entering February - it's notoriously a painful month in Canada, anyway, lack of light etc, but it does seem like there's a general lackluster ambiance.

If it helps, I'm trying to hang on to my zen as well. We can encourage each other to remain pillars of calm in the surrounding mayhem of moodiness, perhaps?

*snugs*

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Mmm, we've got a saying here in the New England area that something reeeaaallly slooow is "as slow as honey in January", but it often seems that February is a colder month, even though it's not as deep into winter as/closer to spring than January. Back to cultivating my inner Cassieline brother (or sister, perhaps).

Edit to select the right icon (though the Tatsumi icon would have worked, since he has a semi-Zen-like calm about him, when he isn't being delicately snarky or getting his composure unsettled by a co-worker who knows how to push his buttons).

[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

Also your inner Nik? ^^ Hm, gotta love the calm role models. Joscelin works too, though. &hearts

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Inner Nik (I'm so glad Rob Thurman started writing part of the book from his POV: he gives the story a sense of balance), inner Tatsumi, inner Wesley Snipes version of Blade (who's rather Zen in a badass sort of way, at least in Blade Trinity, which is the only one I've seen so far)... whichever works...