not willing to lay down and die because i--

i shouldn't make icon decisions in the middle of the night--i'll do that tomorrow. ::yawn::

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i found out what my phone number is going to be! wooooooooo! :)

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hm. well, i don't really know what they're asking here, but i guess i can always make something up...

icons

...i have done battle with icons and i was victorious. i'm now delighted with them, all of them, and two are brand new today and one is mostly new. gip to end gips.

first, me. and then these:


two mermaids (with some portuguese lyrics from she who must not be named); the afro-caribbean goddess (from la santería, el vudú), yemayá (with lyrics from dar williams) and. well. the fearsome threesome, because we kick ass. especially sally.

and we're small, and learning

hey, hollsk, check out #16 and 17 here.

ask a silly question...

pechebaie: Jennifer back yet?
cim thing: yes, but i locked her in the bathroom so she couldn't im with you
Pechebaie: oh no
Pechebaie: :-P
cim thing: sorry.
cim thing: you were just too annoying. i had to find some way to get back at you.
cim thing: jennifer's getting pretty noisy, though
cim thing: i'm going to have to let her out soon
Pechebaie: heehee
Pechebaie: I'm sorry
cim thing: and then i'll need some other way to distract her :-\
cim thing: no, no problem.
cim thing: i mean, it's not like i haven't done it before or anything.

DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT RATHER OLD-FASHIONED!

Mutants and bar charts - it's lucky they don't stun me.

I'm perverse - I'd better not inseminate Bugs Bunny.

I want to salivate over your ex-girlfriend until it's single and bored.

You vibrating sherbet fountain!

i can make you want me
i can make you need me too
i can reassure you
that all the lies you tell yourself are true

and if you won't let me go
I'm just harder to hold, no
I'll never let you gain control

I'm not myself lately
I'm not even sure I know me
But I'm worth more than my name
And all the lies I tell myself are true

dorkorific and i have a support group...

...for people who are better than everyone else. ::nods::

dorkorific: sometimes we lie awake at night, banging our heads against the wall, screaming "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US?? WHY CAN'T WE IMPART THIS WORK of UNBELIEVABLE INSPIRATION to a RECEPTIVE WORLD, shedding the BLINDING LIGHT of ourCOLLECTIVE GENIUS on the unenlightened MASSES?? the quality of this makes WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE look like a CHILD PORNOGRAPHER, and we just CAN'T DO IT!!!"

cimorene111: i totally sympathize, because even though elijah and i never actually have any trouble writing, it's essential, i think, to my character as the best writer of emotion ever born that i'm very vulnerable to other people. i just care SO MUCH that i know exactly what they're going through, often better than they do themselves.

dorkorific: yes. and you know why that is? it's because, i think, you're just BETTER than they are. it's probably a genetic thing. but for every gift there must be a price, and your innate superiority makes you very susceptible to the petty foibles of mankind--it makes you almost too compassionate and wonderful to live. and i really feel the same. sometimes it's just so *difficult*, being so much BETTER than everyone else in the entire universe, isn't it? i tell you how i deal with it: i confide in dom: my principal character, my best friend, my imaginary lover. i keep him chained to my ankle. not, of course, that he would ever get the urge to run away, but just in case some uppity writer who thinks SHE knows how to characterize him tries to get her disgusting lower-class mitts on him. ugh. it's enough to make you vomit, it really is. dom thinks so, too. look, he's nodding his precious little head in agreement.

yeah, so

email has been sent. i'm so fucking accomplished, i can hardly stand myself.

after midnight morning will come and the day will see...:

'the intuition of a native speaker about clusters of semantically-related words is more valuable linguistically speaking than data from a reference book.'

that's NOT EITHER jargon.

:-p

cim's hair on straightening créme (+10 min blowdrying) courtesy l'oreál

help please, everyone!

so i'm going to apply to the creative writing course, and i hardly have anything that isn't fanfiction that's good because i have been writing fanfic exclusively for a couple of years now. (guinevere33, mamahooch, nemoricultrix, you've read the exception.)

so the professor--who is a novelist-- says:

You should submit a writing sample of no more than three pages, preferably fiction, but creative non-fiction will also be fine. This does not have to have a beginning, middle, and end, but will just give me a sense of your ability with language. More important is a one or two page letter on why you want to be in this course: what role writing plays in your life, what you hope to get from the course, what you can contribute to the class dynamic.

so what i want is opinions. people who've read large amounts of my stuff: what are your favorite stories and your favorite passages? or better yet, what would make a good impression on this professor :-\? we know how i love to go overboard with nature imagery, but maybe he would find that pretentious. maybe he's prejudiced against romance (and i probably wouldn't do a sex scene, even, yeah, because, well, you know).

of course i really don't know any of that. i just know that he's a novelist, so maybe looking at the longer pieces (tennessee, burn, delirium; hitch and implicit) are preferable, but really i'm not even positive of that.

any suggestions at all would be welcome. hit me.

the sky is blue and high above; the moon is new, and so is love

naina, where are you? i'm writing! a lot! and it's funny and eee! fraser! ray! soinloveEEE (tm)!

::breathes::

excuse me.

::blush::

could this icon kick any more ass?

no. i didn't think so.