Miscellany: A Miscellany

[leahbobet]

1) This afternoon after lunch I, wearing my cute little black and white polka-dot dress and with my blue hair freshly touched up, sat down at my cluttery Dayjob desk, which was all scattered with potted plants and work things and pictures from ginny_t's Cute Overload calendar on the walls* and a half-finished pot of Azteca Fire, put my headphones on, cranked up Violet, and commenced proofreading petitions to the Legislative Assembly. While headbanging.

I was totally Penelope Garcia today.

2) Apropos of very little, I was thinking in my nice hot bath tonight about how you hear these constant stories about writers who assume that editors, agents, writers who are a little further along, writers who are a lot farther along, benighted workshop admins (okay, that one's from personal experience), and basically anyone who can tell them "No" in any capacity are somehow in it for the diabolical power they can exert over said poor, trembling writers. I mean, okay, I know this is a projection reaction: people feel like others have power over them, and therefore assume that others' motive is to have power over them; that they're doing it on purpose. Screwy logic, but it's one of those pretty basic human kinds of screwy logic.

But the thing I was thinking in my nice hot bath was, well, geez. If I could choose to have diabolical, sadistic, puppetmasterish power over a class of persons? Writers would not be it. Seriously. What're writers good for? We're always poor, we have no skills, and trying to even get a half-dozen of us out to dinner is like herding freaking cats.

Now, nuclear scientists or off-the-grid homesteaders? Now we're talking.


*We have a bit of a deal. I get the puppies.

Comments

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

Oh, off-the-grid homesteading. Someday ..

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yesss.

Although is it really off the grid if I'm hugging a wireless hotspot?

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

If I could choose to have diabolical, sadistic, puppetmasterish power over a class of persons? Writers would not be it.

So, so true.

[c0untmystars.livejournal.com]

If I could choose to have diabolical, sadistic, puppetmasterish power over a class of persons? Writers would not be it.

We are a particularly useless species, at least where diabolical, sadistic schemes come into play. Now, advertising executives.......

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

0.0

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

LMAO nicely said :) ~still giggling~

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

commenced proofreading petitions to the Legislative Assembly. While headbanging.

Lmao. This is how all government business should be conducted.

"Please fill out these forms in triplicate. *flaaaaailthrash*"

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I only get to do it twice a week (when that particular task comes up). But it's a good twice a week. :D

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

You wore that dress at worldcon. It is indeed very cute.
And blue is the best colour for hair.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you. :) I only got it just before the con (in the fit of aaaagh blargh need professional clothes!) and I'm getting pretty fond of it.

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

i know the feeling. I too had that fit. The result being two smarter-than-normal dresses, neither of which actually made it to Worldcon, and a tweed mini skirt that mostly just gets me into trouble!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Woo trouble!