Ennui

[itsallovernow]

We had the Gashlycrumb Tinies poster in our kitchen when I was in college, and I always think of the E child, killed by Ennui when I'm bored:)

Work continues to be so slow that I can't motivate myself to write. This will change with frustrating quickness, but for now, I just have to weather it through. In better news, the headache of doom finally receded - after I went home and watched much Project Runway, not to mention Gilmore Girls and Fullmetal Alchemist. M. (who's day off it was), crawled out of his cave at 2:30, looked at me, looked at the TV and asked when the Girly Parade was going to be over and told me to go back to work (he was actually just being funny, not an asshole. With M., the two frequently sound the same. It's all in the delivery). Then he started doing dishes and cleaning and told me to keep watching because it was motivating him.

I have a 1/4 of the silly little SG-1 fic done which involves Mitchell and Vala and rain and mud in a not porny sort of way but it wants to grow up to be a real fic and not just a silly snippet. I also have 2/3 of the Farscape gunporn I started for sugargroupie and I need to finish it because I MISS writing FS.

Reading my flist, I have garnered that people get up and do things before they go to work. Is this true, or are my analytical skills just fucked what with the depression and boredom and headache? Do some of y'all actually get up in time to eat a leisurely breakfast, read the paper, have a second cup of coffee, walk the dog? Oy. I am so much better at night.

I am also to understand that Supernatural premieres tonight, and while it's not my thing, I'm happy for my flist's buzzy joy.

And yes, I am bored enough to spam y'all with a list of my activities.

Entertain me! Hell, throw things at me. Articles, photos, prompts, requests for ridiculous analysis, porn, small fruit... I'm desperate. Desperate enough to start reading things I shouldn't!!

Oh, and just in case this was not news, lizlet rocks and sent me lovely goodies via e-mail including the interview I did for CBC so that my mom can listen and beam in pride as her only offspring discusses the fact that the American public's love of CSI does not make us a twisted, violence prone nation of fucked up psycho paths. We're doing group therapy through CSI. No, really. Although, seriously, I do find it less distressing that we're getting our voyeuristic groove on to CSI's litany of largesse than that we're now actively encouraging adultery and pissy childlike behavior in the form of Meredith/Derek. And I LIKE "Grey's Anatomy."

Comments

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

I go through stages with how much I do in the mornings. In high school, it was all I could do to be out of bed and wearing clothing by the time my ride got there, and I usually ate my lunch all morning in lieu of breakfast. In college, I started getting up at a better hour and going to have breakfast in the dining hall and sometimes doing reading. Once I started working, I went right back to the "if I'm clothed and there isn't a rat's nest on my head, I'm good" strategy, but once I got to law school, I started getting up an hour and a half early, checking email, eating breakfast, and doing schoolwork.

I could probably attribute the changes to the hour -- when I had to be at school at 7/7:30 in high school and at work at 8:30, I was slower -- but I have some early classes now and I still like to get up in time to get some stuff done. I think it is all about what you train yourself into. When I was accustomed to being up twenty minutes before I had to leave, I also went to bed later and just generally treated mornings like the hectic time from hell. Now that I'm used to having enough time to actually get something done in the mornings, I really want to be up earlier so I don't feel rushed.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I always got up in high school and college with plenty of time to read the paper, shower, eat breakfast. It was habit. And now I've let myself fall into the tumble out of bed into the car habit and I desperately need to wean myself of it.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

I used to be an insane person and get up and meet people at 0darkthirty and run six miles and then go to the gym to shower and then stop at McDonalds and then go to work and be slightly early at 7:00.

That only lasted a summer. Now I make breakfast consisting of fried egg and milk and tea (in mug for later), but the making takes five minutes and the eating takes another five (fifteen for real time applications since I read e-mail at the time.) So it sounds insane (to me), but it's really not!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - I keep thinking if I could get up 20 minutes earlier, it would help me immensely.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Hee! I try to go to the gym and THEN come home and have a leisurely breakfast :P (I'm not really naturally a morning person, but I do like the quiet time of early in the a.m. quite a lot!)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that I love those early morning hours. I love the light and the sensibility and I'm fine - if blurry - once I'm up. But I am incapable of getting up much before I need to launch out of the house.

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

I'm going traveling! TRAVELING! *omgsoexcited*

Feel free to write me something while I'm gone. Possibly about traveling. Possibly about Egypt. Like, maybe, Teal'c and Vala peppering Daniel about what it was like, and Daniel being all 'omg! I do not discuss my self or my past! EVAR!' and them being all 'but it's the root of our HISTORY and we're ALIENS and they are never going to let us go there, so tell stories!' and lo, Daniel starts getting into it and Vala looks sneaky because she got Daniel to talk about himself. Heh.

Um. I might be slightly too excited about giving prompts after signing up for the darkside challenge. Hee!

I might be slightly too excited in general. *twirls*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah traveling!! Traveling deserves that level of giddy excitement.

Egypt, huh? One of the crazy things about becoming a professional belly dancer (for me personally) is that my working knowledge of Egypt has always, always been the early dynasties and the role it played in developing civilizations and trade with other classical cultures, and it's hard for me to associate my own art form with that knowledge.

Hmm. Perhaps this fic should have that sort of opium haze of belly dancers and Egyptian mythology and OMG there used to be this really fabulous Moroccan restaurant in Colo Spgs where you couldn't wear shoes and they could so go there to celebrate and would be the only one's in there and that could set up the harassment and....

Curse you for the fic bunny! Curses I say.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Bad bad plot bunny temptress:
http://thassalia.livejournal.com/304776.html#cutid1

Although it ended up being more about Cam's NC-17 but ultimately chaste love for his team than about Daniel talking.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Get up. later and later these days, (ie 7 rather than 6 or 6:30) -- I am TIRED in a deep-boned way. Some sequence of get cleaned up/get dressed/make coffee/drink some coffee/put rest in thermos for later/make breakfast - sometimes eaten then, sometimes eaten in car, sometimes taken to work/make lunch to take/do hair and makeup/feed sheep and horses and do water for animals and any other necessary outdoor chores/change into non-barn work appropriate clothes/go to work. Into work later these days, too. It's different. I don't hate it except I am LEAVING work later, and I miss the early morning rising - 7 feels LATE somehow....

and you have the CBC interview in emailable form?! *NUDGE*

Finally, for entertainment purposes, there was an outstanding fic, ya know, promised, Earned even for good guessing ;) There were horseys. And men. and women. and possibly prons. And it was an SG1 request, but farscape would work, too ;).

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! That's true. With the fic and the guessing. All right, I'll so work on that:)

[danceswithwords.livejournal.com]

I've found I've become more of a morning person as I've gotten older. But there's a limit; if I'm driving to work, I get up at 8 and do stuff and drink coffee before leaving, but if I'm getting up just an hour earlier to take the train, I can not make myself get up even earlier unless it's to run, because earlier than 7 seems to be a threshold and if I go below it I am miserable. I pretty much have to make myself get up to do exercise in the morning because I've learned the hard way that I have a harder time motivating later in the day and it's the surest way I'll actually do it.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for some reason, I can just about fathom 7:00 a.m., but earlier, to me, still feels like night. I should get up in the morning and exercise, but when I calculate it, this still reaches into the pre-7 hours:)

[50mm.livejournal.com]

I do *not* do anything in the morning besides make myself presentable enough to leave the apartment and go to work (I have a french press at work and make coffee there). The only time I would see 6am is because I haven't gone to sleep yet. heh... I'm like you--I really get going at about 11pm, which isn't always optimal because I supposed to be at work at 9am.

I just posted some adorable puppy pictures...

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Dude, that puppy is UBER adorable:) Thank you!

And thank god I'm not the only one:) When we have a gathering of hussies I am ALWAYS the last one up, even if I'm sleeping in the most public space, even if it's my time zone:)

[50mm.livejournal.com]

I've been trying not to squeal out loud from puppy cuteness all day. I want rub her puppy belly and floppy ears. *is pathetic*

Last one up, last one to bed--that's us!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee. Totally, the last one to bed. And OMG puppy cuteness. Puppy smell ears.

[cofax7]

Well, since coming back from China (where we realize our true bovine nature in comparison to the locals), my sister and I get up at 5:30 am and go running twice a week. And then I cool down while lifting handweights and watching the previous night's Daily Show. And I might check LJ and my mail while eating breakfast before going to work. I am no earlier to work than I was before, though, and the days I'm not running I still get up around 7. I'm lazy.

I throw fruit at you. BTW, you're getting beta thanks on the DV thing (now with title, yay: "Paper Ships and Painted Faces", thank you Richard Thompson), since I bent your ear about it so much. And I'm plotting a bigass plotty thing set during the hiatus, during which SG-1 and Jack and the SGA folks team up to save the Pegasus Galaxy from their own stupid decision-making... argh?

I love the Gashlycrumb Tinies omg! I may need a Gorey icon.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you are not a lazy sloven:) Hee. And motivated to boot:) I'm not interested in getting to work earlier, just to regaining my ability to get up, eat toast and coffee and shower before I have to go to work.

Catches the fruit, puts it next to my yams:) Grins vastly at beta thanks on the DV and grins even more widely at long plotty hiatus crossover fic... Loves.

Hee - if you have a favorite letter, I will make you a Gorey icon.

[cofax7]

C, please? Naturally. Mwah.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee:) "C" it is:)

[woodface]

I have a 1/4 of the silly little SG-1 fic done which involves Mitchell and Vala and rain and mud in a not porny sort of way but it wants to grow up to be a real fic and not just a silly snippet.

*GLEES*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Oy, but it still has to get written!

[woodface]

You can do it!

[pdxscaper.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking if I could get up 20 minutes earlier, it would help me immensely.
Oh, I so hear you on that! I'm definitely on the nightowl side with you and bheerfan. I do love morning, but I just cannot get up early on a work day to save my life.

Project Runway! Yay. I like Michael.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I like Michael as well. I like Laura, but she's not innovative enough. And I want to tell her to invest in birth control, but at least she can afford all those children so more power to her.

[pdxscaper.livejournal.com]

LOL...Yes, 6 kids and 1 on the way...it's too wild!

I agree, Laura doesn't stray far from her comfort zone. Her garments are all so well made and beautiful, but also predictable. I think that about Uli, too. Hers all end up looking the same to me. Although I did like hers best last night.

I can't wait to see what all 4 of them come up with for their collections.

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

If the Cmonkey doesn't explode into another growth spurt (with the attendant constant nursing and brittle fussiness) I'm looking to have another bit of the SGA/Lysistrata for you.

I never could get the hang of doing stuff in the morning; even when I was training before work I was barely rolling out of bed in time to get there (read 5-15 minutes late depending on the season), and I chose mornings because it sucked least schedule-wise.

Given free reign I'd be nocturnal, which I was for every summer break from sixth grade on.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Loves you. Looks forward to more writing. Loves your icon like so much Whoa it's not even funny.

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

I made the icon from the pic we took in Burbank where he's sitting on the pillow, chewing his own hand in horror *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a reason it filled me with such uncontrolled glee:) Gets all nostalgic for shocked Beaker on the hotel pillows.

I think every year, one of the hussy excursions should involved a hotel stay, but that may only be because I love staying in hotels:) And it seems like the ridiculous factor gets even higher when we're all jammed into one room together:)

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so much better at night it's not even funny. If I had my druthers, I'd sleep every day from six am to noon. Seriously, sleeping at that time, six hours is enough for me. But try midnight to six am or 1 am to 7 am and I'm a mess.

The world belongs to morning people, and I'm still all bitter about it. Hell, I do my makeup at stoplights.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I've started to do my makeup in the car, but gah, I wish I could get my ass out of bed a little sooner:)

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

The only thing I manage to do in the morning is get up, get dressed and put a little makeup on. I am so not a morning person, so when I have to work day shift (start at 7:30) I have to get everything ready the night before. Then I stumble around in the morning drinking coffee while I get ready.
This may have something to do with working shift work, because I did notice that on my holidays, not working night shift for 2 months, I was actually almost coherent first thing in the morning.