Sing about the dawn in the middle of the night

[brigdh]

Mmmm, I am so happy, y'all. Not sure why, but I am.

It's been raining here for days; mostly not very hard, but a constant steady drizzle. I forgot my umbrella at a coffeeshop on Wednesday, and then couldn't go back for it yesterday because I was busy with homework and going to meetings, but luckily they still had it when I made it over there this evening. I'd been wearing a hoodie the last two days, but the rain's really too heavy for that: the cloth just gets wet and cold and jeans soak water up to your knees, and then it feels like you'll never be warm or dry again. The forecast says it's supposed to keep raining for another week. Normally rain does not bother me. I'm not at all one of those people who get depressed by it, and in fact, I think it makes a very nice sound for sleeping. But people. I haven't seen the sun since Tuesday- I am not going to last for another whole week.

Regardless, I have tea with honey and a toasted bagel covered with melted butter, all runny and greasy and good, and food on its way from Taco Ninja. Isn't that the best name for a restaurant? It's all Mexican food, but with bizarre Japanese names: the four levels of spiciness for the salsas are geisha, katana, kamikaze, and seppuku, for instance. Food makes everything right with the world. Even if I have been bizarrely losing weight for the past week, what the hell, body?

Claims have started for stagesoflove. I really like to watch claims posts; I get so excited when I see people taking pairings I want to read. Of course, it often turns out that I won't like the author's style at all, but it's fun to be excited for now. It looks like the community will be huge this time around again; there's already so many people signed up. So, um. People are willing to convince me that I don't want to write paired Seven Virtues/Seven Vices stories featuring the Gaiden group and the Sanzo-ikkou, right? Because, oh man, it would be such a cool way to compare and contrast, and since virtues=heaven and vices=earth it works out so well, and then you portray the virtues as negative qualities and the vices as positive and- But I shouldn't. I have so many other things that I need to write, that I've already made commitments to, and anyway the end of the quarter is coming up, so I'll have to start writing papers (...shit. I haven't emailed my professor yet about a paper topic, and that was due two days ago. I need to do that as soon as I finish this post). I really, really can't. And yet it is so tempting.

Today I mailed off my security deposit for where I'll be living next year. I can't believe I'll be moving to New York in August. It seems so soon.

Comments

[animadri.livejournal.com]

Unless on this round we're invited to come up with a series of related vignettes, rather than being asked to build a continuing narrative with each installment? Hmmm, maybe one or more of us should seek clarification on this.

Dude, of course it's welcome. I just want you to tell us a tale. *g*

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

And I see from the Rules post that we can indeed arrange the prompts in any order that we think works. You are an evil dangerous tempting person. You know that, don't you?