laughing as our minds come loose

[asimplechord]

why_me_why_not is at Warped RIGHT NOW, and I wish I were with her.

+ The Chief is off at a professional meeting this week. (Actually started yesterday.) He wanted me to go. Actually, mainly he wanted me to present a poster. My response: I'll generate data for a poster, but I already have plans for those dates. So. I made figures and gave them to him, and he slapped them onto a poster. Which is seriously unattractive. I just. I don't like the way he laid it out. The format is sort of unattractive, with little to mark the flow, and he organized it so that the figures need to be read across the poster, rather than in columns. Which, yes, we generally read left to right (fuck you very much for saying that's why you organized it like that) but when you're strolling down a line of posters, it's easier to make things flow in a column so that people can move once as they finish reading everything in a column, rather than going back and forth against the flow of foot traffic around you. If I were the one standing in front of it, I wouldn't have organized it like that. And my name went first, so it annoys me. Just. URGH. Also, I'm sort of annoyed that he was so excited about a piece of new data that he put it on before I had a chance to reproduce it.

+ EMPIRES. CD. Arrived while I was at Portus. I giggled over the package's handwritten address and return-address, and that the CD case had handnumbered (red Sharpie FTW!) numbering for first pressing. ALSO. I am SO JEALOUS (and wish I could plan my trip home to include seeing): Empires at Ottobar on 16August.

+ NRGH. Had the most awesome dream the other night and figured out how to imply GSF for the girl!Bren fic without actually writing it (which is the problem causing the hold-up, because I just can't do Ryan Ross sex; there will be more Bren/Jon) so hopefully that'll finally get finished this week. Then I have to write:

- the kitchen-sex portion of TeamNakedPics fic
- otter!fic
- other drabbles from the Music is my boyfriend meme (both remaining are HP)
- Harry/Fred/George that I started AGES ago (seriously, like 18 months ago, for twindowlicker), with prodding from alisanne

+ George Michael tonight. (STFU, I'm reliving my veryfirstconcertever.) Less Than Jake later this week. Alkaline Trio next week, and Phantom Planet. MATT SKIBA! ALEX GREENWALD!

Comments

[angela-snape.livejournal.com]

Wham! was my veryfirstconcertever... George Michael would be a fun show, I think.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

It was! The set was pretty cool, and the sining was amazing: lots of stuff from his last two albums.

[twindowlicker.livejournal.com]

Wow, I actually had forgotten about that!
:)

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I hadn't, but every time I opened it, my mind went blank, and nothing got done!

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

i wish you had been with me too

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

It would have been awesome. :)

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

otter!fic

*giggles*

Are we talking ACTUAL otters, or Matt "Otter" Pelissier?

Oooh, that's a nice line-up right there. Enjoy them all! :D

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, no, not Otter. Actual otters. My brain, srsly. There's AU, and then there's crack, and I've clearly taken a stroll down that path.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

Heh. I figured. But didn't want to assume. There really should BE more fic featuring Otter, though. Especially during the kicking him out of the band/Gee getting sober period.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

There should, absolutely. But that's such a hurty time for them, I can't do it. I love the Gee-getting-sober angle, but I couldn't do justice to the rest of the mess.

No, really. Brendon's a sea otter. He was born at Prince William Sound, but one day when he was up the river (he knew he wasn't supposed to stray that far from the den, but seriously, the seagulls were taunting him with tales of "upstream") something really gross came ashore, and his whole family died. He got some of the sticky black stuff on his coat, and it was hard for him to keep warm, and everything tasted bad for a while, but some humans helped him.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think I could do it either. That they got through that to become the band they are is kind of amazing.

Awwwwww. Brendon the sea otter. That is absolutely the most adorable thing I've heard all day.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Bob wasn't kidding when he told Ray, "I will save you." He really really did.