*insert witty cursing*

[elaby]

Well, I had an ENTIRE POST typed up continuing my talk about why I'm going to change some of my vampire characters to immortal and leave some of them as vampires, but while trying to find a link at the very very very end, I somehow opened a page over my LJ update window. When I went back, part of it was there, but when it asked me if I wanted to revert to the saved draft, I clicked "yes" and it reverted not to the whole thing, but the very first line in the post. Which was me bitching about the weather.

So now I'm tempted to just say fuck it all, because nobody was going to be interested anyway and now I've wasted an hour and a half that I should have been spending reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Because, you know, I'm never allowed to spend any time doing things I want to do when I'm in grad school. I should be using every waking hour reading assigned things, even if I won't be quick enough to ever say anything intelligent in class.

/bitterness

But instead, I think I'm going to retype it all in a Word file so that I can actually save it rather than having it disappear into the void of the internet. And you thought I'd learned my lesson all those years ago when I used to write posts for RPG groups actually IN the posting window, or in an e-mail, and had AOL crash on me countless times.

Of course, when you'll actually SEE what I get written in that Word file is another matter, considering how long I've been planning two new plot-driving characters for _melisande_'s RPG and haven't even gotten a half a page written about them.

caitirin gave me chocolate. She said it's point-free. Endorphin levels rising.

Off to stem my academic guilt by reading some Gawain. I'm going to keep the library-borrowed laptop I'm using, though, so I can maybe work on that file.

Comments

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* I want to bring you a free muffin and take you away on a romantic weekend getaway. I love you.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I would so leave everything to go with you!

You totally keep me sane. Thank you. I love you :)

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

*HUGSSSSS*

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Chocolate always helps. *sends virtual chocolate*

sir_dave says Gawain is heavy going too. I've never read the original, though I'm familiar with the story.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

It seems short enough, but I haven't gotten into the text yet, so I've yet to see how easy it is to read. I think he read a different translation than I have, from what he said to me when we were talking about Malory a few weeks ago.

Mmm, virtual chocolate ^_^

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

argh! Horriblehorrible!

Anyway, you *must* retype it, as I demand to read it, so there.

*sticks tongue out*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Nothing like a demand and a stuck-out tongue to motivate someone :) Thanks.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_melisande_/]

I'm always interested in what you write!

And you are not allowed any academic guilt, you work plenty hard!!! How many times this semester have you come in with all your work done for Epic and Romance and I've come in to ask you what book we're supposed to be on?

You are such a brilliant student! I understand being stressed out over this whole grad school thing, but we're both going to get through it, and we're both going to have to learn to do that while still being able to have fun.

You know what? I don't think you should read Gawain, I think you should take a break, relax. And I don't mean pick Gawain up later, I mean just don't pick it up at all! One book, that's all it is, and I'm sure you can get a plot outline on the internet, or I can give you one, because miracle of miracles, I actually did my reading on time. Yeah, that's not going to happen again this semester. So yeah... you should take a little time for yourself and do something fun and NOT feel guilty about not doing a little bit of your school work.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

*GLOMPS* Thank you so much! You're totally right. We WILL get through grad school, and we will not be institutionalized in the process.

I tend to do all my work for Epic and Romance because it's the only class I feel like I can actually contribute in ^^;; But you're right. If I don't have time, I'm just not going to read Gawain. I'm not going to kill myself over this stuff, because he'll never know if I don't read one of the books.

You're allowed to not have done the reading for that class sometimes, because you have so many skillions of other things to do (hopefully less Latin soon!) and you work and help out everybody and are just wonderful.

And I know you're interested in what I write :) I was just being childish. But it's nice to hear that you do ^_^

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

*pats* It's always, always the long posts that you've put a lot of thought into that you lose. That's happened to me more than once, especially when I go looking for links. *kicks LJ*

I'd love to read your post when you get it done. You know I always like to read about your characters. Putting it into a long Word document is a good idea; I've also lost long emails and so I do them in Word if one is going to take me a long time.

Chocolate fixes everything. Lupin says so, and so I believe it. *giggle*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

I believe it too! Thanks for commiserating :) I should have known better than to not start something long in Word.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

BTW, NICE icon *laughs*

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

I thought that one would amuse you. ^_^ Akito and Momiji just look so different these days.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Good GOD, that was Momiji! O.O

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

Yup, he's all growed up. ;) And freed from the curse, I might add. O_o

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Good for him! Does he have a nice girl/boy now?

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

No, oddly enough, Momiji is one that hasn't been paired up with anyone, although it's been made clear that he is in love with Tohru. Good grief. I love Furuba so much, but every time I describe something about it, I realize how much it sounds like a soap opera. Is that typical of shoujo manga?

I don't have many Momiji icons, and I need some ...

[elaby.livejournal.com]

BLAH, Tohru-love. At least it's not as dumb as some anime/manga where everyone is in love with the annoying heroine. Tohru isn't annoying. I hope Momiji doesn't get anyone! Because SOMEbody needs to stay single, f'god's sake.

[raechel]

ever play that "poke the penguin" game where, after a thousand and one times of poking the penguin, the penguin curses some bleeped obscenities and then explodes? That's how I feel when LJ jerks me around by saying "reload your entry" and it's like you said: at the very beginning. GYAAAAH! You have my anger-sympathy!

(and don't worry. You're plenty smart... some people just have nothing better to do ^_^)

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks ^_^ Hehe, yeah, I will SO know better than to trust that "reload your entry" thing!