Yet more grumpiness

[Lightning Eater]

I do. But I can't kill off my main characters. Yet.

But if you don't fight back you're letting them control you!
But if you're that timid I suppose you can just kill one of them, so the others will be frightened into obidience, and find some way to write around the fact that it's narrarated in the first person and the first person was just hit by some meteor with no plot significance whatsoever.

[Chimera]

Several of my characters are actually slotted to die. But I cannot reveal that here, since members of my writing group frequent and at least a few of them don't know who's biting the bullet next. There is a death coming quite soon in the narrative, though, so I was writing that for cathartic purposes.

If I'm still in this mood once I've written all the death scenes, though, I don't know what I'll do. Burn forests or something like that, I suppose.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

actually, the serious truth of it is that we wait for you to become "established" in that you know HOW to break the rules without breaking the spirit for which they were made in the first place.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

You totally stole that from me!

and you totally stole it from Mr. Burns....
But hey its just sooo good.

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

I'm grumpy because I have to write another story for Creative Writing and I won't be done anytime soon. Not only that but it is pretty much a given that my family will start pressuring me to get off the computer. I hate this!

[Chimera]

Packing sucks.  

And trying to figure out what to get rid of is incredibly frustrating. I know I can't keep everything--I have less room at home then I do here--but everything seems so important and necessary!

I really could use one of those professional organizers to give me perspective.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'll do it for you!
I'll do it free
you just have to pay for transportation out there

[Chimera]

Thanks! But that kind of negates the "free" aspect.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I guarantee a round trip ticket is less than one of those prof. organizers will charge you.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Chimera,

Please don't forget the books you loaned me. I need to get them to you.

I finally read the Christopher Chant book. It was fun, if a bit predictable.

[Chimera]

I haven't forgotten the books. When is a good time to pick them up? I could probably stop by tonight. It's not as pressing because I'm not leaving tomorrow like I planned (with selling my contract and packing taking longer). As long as I get home before Christmas, I'm fine, but now I'm aiming for Monday or Tuesday.

[MsFish]

I'm grumpy because no one complains about having both an ecstatic things and a happy things thread but if there's something more miserable than the grumpy thread, that's unacceptable.  People suck.  

[Shrain]

So, I fly home and soon discover something distressing.

My dad's hand looks like Tim Burton paid it a visit. Seriously, he had this accident at work (he sandblasts huge rock signs and such), and his poor fingers look like Burton's handywork from "The Nightmare Before Christmas." 16 stitches! It sucks.

No one even told me about it when I was in Boston. They didn't want me to "worry." Well, I can understand that, but it's a shock to hear about it so long after the fact. I wish I hadn't watched while he changed the gauz though. (Hence the Burton reference) Yipes!

[fuzzyoctopus]

Rats in the basement.

Mice in the closets and the walls, eating our food.

'Nuff said.

[Entsuropi]

Tony blair is a frelling prat. He just signed away £7billion (~$18bill USD or something like that) to pay for motorways in poland and for french farmers to grow yet more crops they don't bother selling.

Be nice if we could have a whiff of democracy with regards the EU... place is like a bloody old boys club, and it's financial records have been deemed unsafe and corrupt for the last ELEVEN YEARS.

Blah...