cimorene

i want to preface this entry by saying it's all

shiroi_chi's fault.

after a delightful evening last weekend of watching highlander, which is a woefully bad but delightfully slashy show (that part was

mace_m's fault--the delightful evening, not the bad) and also very nice to look at, which is the fault of peter wingfield (methos), i've been reading highlander slash all week. (as you probably noticed.)

so far, so normal.

there's a pub called the three beers near the TYS office on my way to school which i have from the first read as "the three bears." shut up, you'd do the same thing. usually i give it a little mental "huh," ponder briefly three bears of varying sizes, or bowls of porridge or what have you, and move on.

but yesterday mr. chi commented in mace's journal all about how she thinks of nothing but methos all day long in classes and whatnot, and it must have been that--or the fic, but we're blaming this on her, remember--that made me think "methos" today. but not alone! simultaneously with the usual unavoidable associations. so my poor pain-addled* brain trying simultaneously to compute "three bears" and "methos, beer" unsurprisingly ended up wrecking the two trains of thought in a spectacular image of empty bottles and a tangle of vague images topped by the phrase "too hard, too soft, just right"--and froze while i blinked and shook my head. and tried not to giggle like the fourteen-year-old i still secretly am.

by then having consciously remembered mr. chi's lament (sounds like a poem, dunnit?) i was doomed for the rest of the day.

when the 8 ft tall** german in my class said something about how "everyone over the age of thirty should recognise" something, right on the heels of "hah, like HE is" came "OR IS HE?" now my brain has placed methos in a similar context to my daily classroom it may never recover. it was only by a spectacular effort of will that i refrained from doodling methos-related idiocy all over my notes. or giggling at an entirely inopportune moment (not that i never do THAT).

*nothing to do with methos, just time of the month

**slight exaggeration. but only slight. i think he's 6' 7" or something.