Holiday Woes

[brandywine28]

It looks like my Christmas gift to my fellow commuters this year is going to be strep throat. (Sorry I didn't have time to wrap it, guys!) I sound like some kind of Lindsay Lohan/frog hybrid and I'm coughing like my father, who was a pack-a-day smoker from time immemorial. (Sidebar: is it possible to inherit someone's smoker's cough? Like, the exact same pitch, timbre--everything? I've been told I have my mother's laugh, but I swear, I swear, I have my father's cough, which is so weird I don't even know what to say about it.)

So my building's super (or whoever it is who's in charge of these things) has decided it'd be a really boss idea to play Bette Midler's Christmas album on an endless loop and pipe it not only into the elevator and lobby, but the laundry room as well. I was down there this morning and I think I must have suffered through Bette's version of "In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening" (?) about five times in a 40 minute period. Surely this must be the music that serial killing clowns hear in their heads 24/7.

My MtYG story is...probably best left undiscussed. I wrote about 1000 words today, which would be great--if I didn't hate 900 of them. :( T-minus 10 days to create a timeless work of art! Let the panicking commence!

Comments

[sperrywink]

I'm lucky. I switched MtYG story ideas today and wrote 1000 words which I like, compared to the 900 words I had on the previous story that were garbage.

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

You are lucky. I could never switch to a new story idea this late in the game. I'm WAY too slow a writer for that to work. :(

[sperrywink]

I switched to a smaller idea that can be told in fewer words than my original idea, so yes, I am really lucky. I matched the word count of my original idea already on the new story.

Good luck!!

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

Speaking of crap playing on a loop...girl, you are AMAZING. What you write is AMAZING. Please stop and just finish it already.

*andwhenyouredonewritesomeBassezformekthxbai*

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

Aw! *glomps you* Now that is a loop I don't find one bit annoying, even if I do think you're biased. :)

Start firin' up the Bassez prompts! (I'm probably gonna need them. I see everything through a TrickC lens.)

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

Prompt:

JC wants Lance.
JC does NOT want Chris.
The end.

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

"I love Lance", JC babbled. "Love him, love him. Cause, like, those eyes? Wow. And that voice--deep as a canyon. A really sexy canyon. A Canyon of Sexiness. I totally want to divorce you so he and I can get a timeshare in Aspen together, and then we can spend all our time skiing and walking around without any pants on and taking showers with the bathroom door open. Yeah." His eyes grew more and more unfocused as he talked, until they finally drooped shut and his grip on Chris' hand loosened.

"Alright, baby. Alright." Chris kissed JC's forehead and adjusted his blankets one last time. The lump in his throat threatened to strangle him as he stepped back and allowed the nurses to wheel his boy away.

"Don't you worry, Mr. Kirkpatrick", one of them called back to him, gratingly cheerful. "We'll get this brain tumor out in a jiffy!"

HEY!

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

HEY! That's just...that's just wrong, see, because WRONG. A, because I fell into the Canyon of Sexiness, and B, because you made JC have a brain tumor?????????

Re: HEY!

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

What, you didn't like it? *Innocent Face of Innocence* But, see, the tumor explains everything! JC wants Lance instead of Chris! Because his mind has been horribly corrupted!

Btw, Lance's Canyon of Sexiness has got nothin' on Chris' Pyramid of Huggability. True dat.

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing this isn't what you had in mind./not sorry