while the rain turns the ditches to mirrors

Oh god, people. I can't take the rain anymore. It's not flooding here, because it stops and it starts but there's still never anything but grey: low, dark clouds against the higher, lighter ones, and the damp, soaked grey of the streets and buildings. Pale grey sidewalks when it's paused for a while, but always dotted with a few small, wet circles. No sun. No light. No heat. Everything is wet and cold, and the only sound anywhere is the hissing and dripping of the rain, until you almost cease to hear it, except that it haunts the back of your mind. It's depressing and isolating; no one wants to go out in it, so the only people around are alone under their umbrellas, or hunched into sweatshirts and coats, hurrying away.

Everything drips. Everything is wet and curled and wrinkled, like paper dropped in a puddle that shrivels in on itself in shreds and tatters as it dries. Everything smells like dead worms and mold and mud and old sweat.

I can't take it anymore. I'm pissy and depressed and any minute now I'm going to go curl up in the window and start reminiscing about past relationships and old friends and people I used to know, and wow, will that not go anywhere good.

Say something to cheer me up!

Linkblogging

So, the paper that I thought was due next Friday is actually due this Friday, and then I found out I also have a presentation on Tuesday.

...Awesome!

But I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my post last night (even though I'm being lazy and haven't responded to everyone yet), instead of laughing at me for, uh, being whiny and depressive. Have some story recs!

Useless as Next Morning's Sun by b_hallward. Tsuzuki/Muraki and Tsuzuki/Hisoka, and oh it hurts in all the right ways.

Journey to the West by geekerypokery. It's a Saiyuki and Buffy fusion, and oh man it is awesome. I'm only halfway through it, but it's still awesome. You know you want to read about a female ikkou fighting vampires.

Un/scarred by springgreen. Konzen and Sanzo and the difference between them, and god do I love the feel of this story.

Also, here's a song: The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (Trentemoller Remix). I didn't know what this song was about when I fell in love with the original version a few months ago, and I don't know what it's about now that I have this amazing remix and someone has finally managed to word out the lyrics. I've got a secret theory that it's about Tamora's children from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, but it's really far too happy of a song for that. So I dunno. Has anyone else heard this song? What are your theories on it?